Milano Jazzin’ Festival

From the 7 July (today) until the 7 August 2008, in Milan's Arena Civica, the Milano Jazzin Festival is to be held. Some big names are going to be there.  Here is a list of some, along with the dates on which they can be seen in action:July 14 - Lenny Kravitz July 16 - Pat Metheny July 26 - … [Read more...]

Omelette & Baguette

Omlette & Baguette

We keep on returning to this cute new little restaurant in Via Paolo Sarpi in Milan. It has only quite recently opened around these parts in Milan. It's easy to see why we keep on finding ourselves going to this restaurant - it's charming and the food is highly original for pizza and pasta fuelled … [Read more...]

For Jan – Elisa: Almeno tu nell’universo

Jan, a long time reader of this blog, said that she likes this particular Elisa track - Almeno tu nell'universo - 'At least you (are) in the universe'.It's a slow and romantic number.  One for smooching to at the end of an evening.Bit slow for my tastes, but what I like is not necessarily … [Read more...]

Want to Modify Your WordPress Theme?

Miss Expatria said she liked Blog from Italy's new look, so I thought I'd write and tell you about two tools which I use to help me tinker with the 'styling' of this site.If all you want to do is change some of the cascading style sheet stuff, in terms of colours and text sizes etc, then you will … [Read more...]

For Andy: Wimbledon – Men’s Final 2008

Just got back from the 442. Alessandro told me that he is going to show the men's final tomorrow.The 442 will open about 15 minutes before the start of the match, which means at around 2:45ish Italian time. This is on the assumption that the match will begin at 2 pm UK time.I'm not sure I'll be … [Read more...]