The Italy You Don't Know
Merry Christmas, if you celebrate it! A Happy New Year too!
Many thanks for reading and for all the comments, Twitter chats and general banter.
The photo, by me, is of the Christmas tree in Milan’s Piazza Duomo – the spectacular cathedral of Milan is in the background. It was a lovely evening too.
If you’d like to find out what Italians will be eating at Christmas, see this Christmas menus post for the huge variety of regional Italian Christmas specialities.
About Alex Roe+Alex Roe is from the UK, but has lived and worked in Milan, Italy for more than a decade. He founded Italy Chronicles in 2005 as Blog from Italy. Alex has been interviewed by the BBC on issues relating to Italy several times and is a Business Insider contributor.
When not working on Italy Chronicles, Alex plans and runs training courses, teaches English at a business school in Milan, translates and writes articles for other web sites, including Heineken Italy. Yes, he gets free beer too :)
Alex tweets news and information about Italy nearly 14000 Twitter followers via @newsfromitaly on Twitter.
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A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too, Alex!