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A plug, again

This is a plug for the next enthralling (uneditied, warts and all) installment of my most probably never to be published/finished novel which you can find here.

There is also a rather hopeful link sitting under the good reads list of links on this blog. You never know.

If you have a (quite a) few minutes, read it, and if you survive the experience, leave me a comment. Any comment will do. Vomit your heart out.

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Stop reading, start speaking

Stop translating in your head and start speaking Italian for real with the only audio course that prompt you to speak.

There are now five whole chapters! With more to come, if you want;-)

Go on, put me out of my misery. Thanks.

And while moving my book over to WordPress from Blogger, I carried out a little spring cleaning and eliminated my old version of Blog From Italy from blogger, so it is now only to be found on WordPress.com, which I like a lot.

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Berlusconi the Wizard

The Italian daily, Il Corriere della Sera, ran a lovely little cartoon on its front page yesterday.

Where is this Castle in Italy?

Guess Where in Italy? Part 15

The last Guess Where in Italy? post certainly got quite a few people guessing, with the distorted photograph causing quite a few problems! Well, seeing as I like to keep people guessing, here is Part 15 of this fun quiz to help people get to know Italy.

Italy, even if it does n0t make great play of the fact, has plenty of castles dotted around the country. Some fall into the fairytale category, while others would not look too out of place in the film such as Lord of the Rings or some medieval romp or other.

How well do you know Italy’s castles? Let’s see with this week’s photo manipulated brain teaser!

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