Fooled in April

April Fool!

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 Betrays Berlusconi

The often crazy world of Italian politics descended into complete farce today with convict Berlusconi as its protagonist.

Microsoft’s steathy update

Last night I switched off my computer, only I would not switch off. At the XP shutting down

A quick post

It’s hot and humid. Very hot and humid here. (30+ degrees C, but feels like 40 degrees –

Church Restoration Time? Who You Gonna Call? – Italian Artisans!

A little known industry is thriving in Italy. Artisan workshops in the Dolomites, around Carrara, in Florence and no

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Another Italian reader

I'm lucky enough to boast three genuine Italian readers now! And each of these Italian readers produce thoughtful, interesting and quite different blogs, which you

Italian food

To round off the weekend, we ended up at a local restaurant this Sunday evening. The place, called Il Quadrifoglio (four-leaf clover), is located merely

Design: Salone del Mobile 2012 Preview: Part two

Following on from part 0ne of my Salone del Mobile 2012 Milan, Italy design fair preview, here are more examples of home furnishing design on

Photogenic Italy – A Tuscan Doorway

Here’s a photograph I took from my summer trip to Tuscany to help brighten up those winter blues a little. It’s not the photograph displayed next to this entry if you have come to the home page of BlogfromItaly.com, just in case you were wondering.

Hope you like it. For the technically minded, it was shot in RAW and then processing into .jpg via the interesting DxO Optics Pro 6 RAW processing program.

I’m quite happy with the end result.