New Blog Toy, and Yet More Shameless Promotion of Italy and things Italian

Thanks to the quaintly named ‘Those Were the Days‘ WordPress plugin, I have just added a new ‘Good Italian Things’ section to the left hand side of this blog. I shall add to it once I have unearthed a few nuggets from the past, but if anyone comes across something that that liked and think that it should go in this section, please let me know.

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.

Another small attempt on my part to say ‘underneath it all, Italy is a pretty damn good place!’.

UPDATE: Not sure this plugin is working – I added another post, and now I’m seeing an error message. Not sure why. I will investigate.

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.

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