Apologies time

Sorry if you have been visiting and finding things a little up and down on this site today. I’ve been experimenting.

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 is now a related posts feature, but the posts listed are not always that, er, well, related. It’s a case of ‘work in progress’. Things may return to normal at any time, although I’m starting to lose track of what exactly ‘normal’ is. Lot’s of balls in the air at the moment.

Normal service may never be resumed…….!

Chad

+Alex Roe is from the UK, but has lived and worked in Milan, Italy, for many years. Alex has been interviewed by the BBC on Italy issues. He tweets news and information about Italy to over 37,000 Twitter followers via @newsfromitaly on Twitter.

Berlusconi Bunga Bunga Case Nears Conclusion

The sordid case involving Italy’s ex prime minister Silvio Berlusconi facing accusations of having sex with an underage

Italy’s 35 Billion Dollar Question

OK, so it’s not 35 billion dollars, it’s 35 billion Euros. Not exactly a paltry sum, I’m sure you will agree.

Italians and bread.

The subject of bread got me thinking about this basic food and its almost fundamental role in Italian daily life.

Weird Weather in Italy

There was a time when summer in Italy began early. Temperatures would begin to rocket from late April

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Italian Rogue of the Week – Gianni Letta – The Fixer’s Fixer

79 year old Gianni Letta has been a moving and a shaking in the wonderfully warped world of Italian politics for decades. Rumours about his

Find Out How Well You Know Italy with this Geography Quiz!

Test your knowledge of where places are in Italy with this just for fun geography quiz. There are 15 questions. P.S. Don’t cheat by looking

Mozzie bites getting you down? Try this.

…..menthol talc. You can get it in the pharmacies here – ‘Talco Mentolato’ and it seems to take the itch out of those pesky and

Press Freedom in Italy from 1980 to 2009

The subject of the freedom of the press in Italy is coming up rather a lot in Italy at the moment, largely due to what appear to many to be Italian government attempts to silence dissenting voices. So, I asked myself, what is Italy’s record on the press freedom front?