Italy Blog

If you have not been to Venice, then you really should.  If you like the idea, but are put off by the expense, then how about seeing Venice by hiring your very own floating self-catering appartment? Although a floating self-catering appartment might sound an expensive way to see this magical Italian city, it’s not as expensive as you might think, especially if you travel as a group.  Plus you get to see Venice from the best place imaginable – the water

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Floating Self-Catering in Venice

Custom Teaser:  It is a very strange feeling to wave goodbye to your dog in Cardiff, UK and think, “The next time I see her, I’ll be in Sicily – forever!” But that’s what I did on May 23rd 2005. Words by Pat Eggleton It is a very strange feeling to wave goodbye to your dog in Cardiff, UK and think, “The next time I see her, I’ll be in Sicily – forever!” But that’s what I did on May 23rd 2005.

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Patti Chiari – Have a dog, will travel – part 2

Custom Teaser:  In his restaurant ‘Il Convivio Troiani’ just a few steps from Rome’s Piazza Navona, chef Angelo Troiani lets Germaine Stafford into a few secrets.. We also included two videos that show how to cook Bucatini all’Amatriciana, buon appetito! Words and Images by Germaine Stafford Sitting in the cosy lounge area of Il Convivio, Angelo Troiani explains that what is now one of Rome’s most important restaurants began as an adventure.

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Bucatini pasta all’Amatriciana

In a week which saw the setting up and speedy closure in Italy of a facebook group which encouraged the derision of children with Down’s Syndrome, a Milan court has found three Google officers guilty of invasion of the privacy of a Down’s Syndrome teenager who was shown being bullied in a 2006 video clip.

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It’s “Addio alla villa” for George Clooney and Eli [Elisabetta] Canalis. Yes, the fairytale Villa Oleandra, nestling in the idyllic setting of Laglio on Lake Como and scene of the couple’s blossoming love last summer, is up for sale – at a mere 20 million euros.

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Who will be the next "Lady of the lake"?

Custom Teaser:  Turin’s National Museum of Cinema is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Fellini’s masterpiece with a special exhibition that recreates the spirit both the film and the times, prompting Claire Provost to reflect on the emptiness that lay behind the sensuous Roman nights Words by Carla Passino Like every masterpiece, Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (“The Sweet Life”) is the ongoing subject of critique, praise, study, and obsession. But unlike most, La Dolce Vita is also an enduring centrepiece in the world’s imagination of Italy at its best and its worst, its most central and its most fleeting

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Fifty years of La Dolce Vita

Sunday 28th February is “Anti-Smog Day” in Northern Italy, with over 80 towns planning to block non-emergency traffic for the day. Many Italian cities have had anti-pollution days before but this is to be the first time that the effort has been coordinated on such a scale.

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Anti-smog day

The structure of the family is changing in Italy, albeit at a slower rate in the South.

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A ministry of singles?

I like the idea of doing something different on holiday, and although I’ve never done it, I can think of nothing quite as appealing as the idea of floating silently over Tuscany in a balloon. Unsurprisingly, I am not the first to have thought of this interesting way to see Italy, and on YouTube there are quite a few videos of balloons over Tuscany

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Ballooning Over Tuscany

Custom Teaser:  It takes slightly longer than it did a year ago to sell a home in a big city centre, but out in the provinces sale times are the same as in January 2009 .. Words by Carla Passino Trying to sell your home in Italy

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Property sales times unchanged in Italian provinces