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The Italy You Don't Know

Potty Cop Copped

August 18, 2011 by Alex Roe

A cannabis plant

This is the kind of story which will probably find its way into the comical Reuters' Oddly Enough news columns.  An Italian carabinieri policeman was recently arrested for growing cannabis … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Italy News Tagged With: Funny, odd

Anglitaliano – English Invades Italian

May 26, 2009 by Ainsley Okoro

A fun guest post from someone who has noticed a few odd things happening to the 'Italian' language.  Over to you Ainsley: As a Northern 40-something-year-old Englishman, the four years … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Italy Tagged With: Culture, Funny, Italian, Language

Hitler, Mussolini, and Berlusconi

March 19, 2009 by Alex Roe

During a theatrical representation based on George Orwell's well known novel 'Animal Farm' which was held in a northern Italian school, a projector was used to show images of dictators … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Italy News Tagged With: Funny, Silvio Berlusconi

Disco, Disco, Music, and an Old Problem

February 18, 2008 by Alex Roe

We have a slight problem where we live in Milan. There is a sort of disco which backs onto our apartment block and the volume of the music, and in particular the bass, can get rather … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life in Italy Tagged With: apartment, blog, fun, Funny, men, Milan, music, police, problem, Writing

Anglo-Saxon

February 2, 2008 by Alex Roe

Being from the UK, I am considered by Italians to be someone from an Anglo-Saxon culture. This makes me chuckle because for me 'Anglo-Saxon' sort of conjures up images of a people clad in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life in Italy Tagged With: bbc, Culture, fun, Funny, Italian, UK

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