A couple of long exposure shots (20 seconds) taken inside the chique Van Gogh bar near Parco Sempione in Milan around Christmas last year. I’d forgotten about these, but I quite like them.
Stop translating in your head and start speaking Italian for real with the only audio course that prompt you to speak.
The red cast is down to the red lighting in the place, but the feel is quite good I think:
And the other shot:
Well, Brexit is go. The outcome of the vote has shaken up Europe, if not the world, and
At present the Monti led Italian government is discussing reforms to the governance of RAI. Not everyone in
Mario Monti is beginning to reassert Italy’s role as a respected central player in Europe. As this observer
While the rest of the world is having a go at Silvio Berlusconi, and, I have to admit, so have I from time to time, this post is going to buck the anti-Berlusconi trend a little by reporting on a less well known side of Berlusconi.
The voting was not overly clear, but the result is: Silvio Berlusconi has been expelled from Italy’s senate. The voting: 192 yes votes, 113 no,
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s richest man and current prime minister, must be totally and utterly terrified of Italy’s forces of law and order. Such is his fear that he is going to enormous lengths to keep himself out of Italy’s courts, and, presumably, Italy’s prisons.
I’ve been having an interesting discussion over on Twitter via my @newsfromitaly persona. The question I posed was ‘Who’s your Italian of the Decade? Someone who has raised Italy’s image positively throughout the world.’
Here’s part two of Lorenza Bacino’s two part feature on what to do and see when spending a weekend in the tantalizing northern Italian city
