Tweet The other weekend I was invited by my ever productive and active Italian artist friend Gaetano Fiore to attend the Il Segno Art Prize awards ceremony at the Zamenhof Art Gallery in Milan. I’d heard on the grapevine that Gaetano might well win a prize. Indeed, he did
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Gaetano Fiore wins the 2011 Il Segno Contemporary Art Prize
Custom Teaser: San Candido is part of the Dolomites World Heritage Area in South Tyrol or Alto Adige in Italian, close to the Austrian border. It’s the starting point for the immensely popular 44km cycle path…. San Candido is part of the Dolomites World Heritage Area in South Tyrol or Alto Adige in Italian, close to the Austrian border.
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Captivating Family Cycling in the Dolomites: Out by Bike, Back by Train
Just when George Clooney is back in Italy to debut his latest movie at the Venice Film Festival , ex-girlfiend Elisabetta Canalis is heading to America. The Italian showgirl is taking her act on the road to appear on the hit program Dancing with the Stars.
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George Clooney’s ex-girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis on Dancing With the Stars
Tweet While spending some time in the verdant and semi-unknown Abruzzo region of Italy I met a few people and photographed them.
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Abruzzo People
Hundreds of volunteers are working to ready the town of Carmagnola in Turin for a 10-day festival dedicated to the pepper. The 62nd Carmagnola Pepper Festival begins today, promising pepper-related markets, concerts, art exhibits, workshops and even a marathon
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Carmagnola Festival Honors the Italian Pepper
Hundreds of volunteers are working to ready the town of Carmagnola in Turin for a 10-day festival dedicated to the pepper. The 62nd Carmagnola Pepper Festival begins today, promising pepper-related markets, concerts, art exhibits, workshops and even a marathon.
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Carmagnola Festival Honors the Italian Pepper
Tweet OK, so you’ve decided to make the break or have found a potential holiday home in the Italian region of Abruzzo somewhere not too far from the attractive town of Vasto and Abruzzo ‘s trabocco fishing platform lined coast. You’ve picked up, or are about to, a house with bags of potential – ripe for restoration – and you need a builder. Your Italian is either non-existent or maybe not too hot, and you’ve heard that homes in Abruzzo need to be earthquake resistant. In other words, you need a builder who knows the area, and who speaks English.
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Need a Builder in Abruzzo, Italy? Here’s One!
Tweet Italy has a world wide reputation for its cuisine and deservedly so in my opinion. The variety Italian cooking can offer has to be eaten to be believed. After well over a decade in Italy, I’m still discovering mighty tasty Italian dishes . As a general rule, Italian cooking is not an overly time consuming process either and it is healthy too. Italians tend to be a slim people, which is something you may have noticed if you’ve ever visited Italy. The trim figures is partly down to the fact that Italians do not go overboard on alcoholic drinks – of which there is no shortage in Italy – but is also down to Italians eating healthily . Yes, I admit it, I am a huge fan of Italian food , so to help others discover the joys of Italian cooking, here is a list of best selling books I’ve harvested from Amazon.com.
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Italian Cooking – 15 Best Selling Books
Custom Teaser: Gordon Lethbridge indulges body and spirit in Sicily’s home of sweetmeats… words by Gordon Lethbridge
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Sicily Treasure: Taormina
Tweet Humanity is short-sighted. It rarely considers the effects of what it does today upon the future. Unfortunately what was done yesterday has a nasty habit of fermenting for years and maturing into something distinctly nasty which will, sooner or later, rear its ugly head and bite hard. The riots which rocked the United Kingdom in early August are very much a case of the past messing up the future. The United Kingdom has been in a state of decline for many, many years. Thatcher, in the name of free enterprise, started the ball rolling steadily downhill, and the brazen and trendy Tony Blair gave the ball another firm push. The obstinacy of Britain’s trades unions helped inflate the ball in the first place. Consumerism is Consuming Society Prior to the riots and prior to my leaving Britain, warning signs were all over the place: high unemployment, little chance of finding a steady job, blatant marketing telling us to buy, buy, buy. Easy credit. Yet money, in the words of the song, cannot buy us happiness. Worse still, those without the cash to satisfy the artificial desires created by marketing to fuel consumerism, became discontent. The haves, and the have nots. An Italian friend of mine who visited the UK a few years back noticed a yawning gap between those with and those without money.
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Italy is a Paradise Compared to the UK and the USA