It is a public holiday here in Italy. Milan seems pretty much deserted as just about everyone heads off for mountains or sea.
Stop translating in your head and start speaking Italian for real with the only audio course that prompt you to speak.
We decided to stay here, and are not regretting it. Milan is wonderful place when all is quiet.
The often crazy world of Italian politics descended into complete farce today with convict Berlusconi as its protagonist.
With my marketing and media relations English classes at the business school where I work, after a few lessons, I hit them with a seemingly very simple question, which flummoxes most of those in the room. That question is “What are you?”. It elicits any number of responses, and leads to many puzzled faces when I say, “Yes, true, and…”.
After several attempts, some of those in the classroom cotton on to what I’m looking for – remember these are marketing and media relations masters, but I also ask the students on other master courses the same question – usually around the time they are being prepared for job interviews designed to test their levels of English.
So what is the answer to this innocent sounding question? And what has this got to do with Italy?
Boy is this one gorgeous Italian sports convertible. I’m happy to say that I see plenty of Maserati’s growling along the streets of Milan, but I have not seen a Maserati Grancabrio as of yet.
We got back from our extended weekend trip to the Alps on Sunday afternoon (11 December), after having spent just over two days in the midst of spectacular Italian mountain scenery near Cogne in northern Italy.
Aside from Italy’s prime minister Silvio Berlusconi who is facing charges of having paid for sex with underage prostitute Ruby, which he denies, three close
The latest Tuscan tale by Simon Law: To the north, above, and on which a small Tuscan village nestles, stands a mountain: through the millennia
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Alarmingly, an area of Italy close to Naples has been christened the Triangle of Death by locals. It is an area where the camorra mafia
