Mara Maffei: A Woman Doing Exceptionally Well in a Man’s World
Last night, and quite by chance, I met Mara Maffei Heineken Italy’s Head of ICT. As you may have guessed from her name, Mara is a woman. While this may not sound as if it’s a big deal, I assure you that in largely male dominated Italy, it is. Indeed, Mara Maffei is doubly, if not […]
Abruzzo People
While spending some time in the verdant and semi-unknown Abruzzo region of Italy I met a few people and photographed them. Here are my photographic portraits along with a little about the Abruzzo people I met, all of whom add to the character of this area of Italy which is worthy of further consideration and […]
Golden nose
The late Gianni Agnelli, the former boss of FIAT, had a bit of a reputation for having gone over the top in his younger days with his cocaine habit. He snorted the evil powder so much that, so the story goes, most of his nasal passages had been re-constructed in gold. Sadly, the temption of […]