Let’s Blog Abruzzo – 1st Food & Travel Blogging Workshop

Let's blog Abruzzo blogging conference

Let’s Blog Abruzzo is a 2-day blogging workshop to be held in June 2013. Set in the lovely Italian region of Abruzzo, the programme offers inspiration, information and workshops for bloggers of all levels and niches, from personal, to food and travel, plus blogging for businesses. This … [Read more...]

Interviewed About Italy By the BBC Twice in One Week

Enchanting Italy

Oh this blogging life! That's twice I've had a chat with BBC radio this week. First I had a chat with Roberto Perrone, an award wining Sicilian-born broadcaster and columnist who does the Mondo Italiano programme on BBC Three Counties radio. Then I was interviewed by Tony Livesy and Chris Mason … [Read more...]

Flu Hits Blog from Italy

Well, we're not sure if it's really the dreaded swine flue H1N1 virus, but my other half thinks it could well be.  Whatever it is, this distinctly flu-like illness, has laid all three of us low. This is why not much has been happening on Blog from Italy recently.  The flu assault started on … [Read more...]

Of Writing and Love Struck Spiders

I can't write.  Well, not in the tradition pen and paper sense. Honestly, if you were ever to have the misfortune of  seeing my dire handwriting, you would probably run away screaming and feeling confused. About the only being likely to find my handwriting even moderately attractive would be … [Read more...]

Surreal Legal Writing

Justice

Yes, I know it's odd to say it, but today's (it was still 'today' when I started writing this!) encounter with the advocates was a little bit on the surreal side. Would you believe that an examination of the language relating to liquidated damages, lept towards kangaroos, enduro and dirt bikes, … [Read more...]

Good Weekend, Bad Weekend

The 442 Pub, Milan

Ah, spring is in the air.  It's almost feeling balmy in Milan at the moment, as winter starts to drift definitively away. And I wish the problems with my hosting service would drift away definitively too. I did not manage to post anything to this blog at the weekend.  Partially because of … [Read more...]

New Year, New Media – GlobalPost

globalpost

Blog from Italy is about to become part of a revolutionary new web based news service: GlobalPost. A while back, in October last year, I was just about to head for bed when a little message came through on the Google Talk thingy which sits on certain pages of this site.  If I'm in, you can use it … [Read more...]

New Year, New Look

A quick note: Regular visitors to Blog from Italy will know that I tend to tinker rather more than I should with the overall layout of this 'ere blog.  In keeping with my tendency towards tinkering, I've created a new left hand column, which is an extension of the former bottom left hand column … [Read more...]

SOS – Help Save Italian Bloggers

The Logos of the Save Italian Bloggers Movement

The following text is from the 'ammazzablog' site, which was created by Italian bloggers who are extremely worried, as I have written before, that Italy's politicians are trying to stifle freedom of speech in Italy. Read the following which is about what Italian bloggers are getting up to in order … [Read more...]

Magazines Are Dead, Hello Web

il cedro calabria italy

One of Blog from Italy's aims is to tell the world about the good things you will find in Italy.  Good things like Calabria for example, where fellow blogger Cherrye runs a bed and breakfast. Now, why that funny title to this particular post?  Quite simple.  The web is a much better place to … [Read more...]

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