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Custom Teaser:  One of the shocks you can receive when you move house, even within in your own country, is that suddenly you are unknown to the people around you and you can start to feel “invisible”. When you move abroad, that sensation is much stronger… Words by Pat Eggleton One of the shocks you can receive when you move house, even within in your own country, is that suddenly you are unknown to the people around you and you can start to feel “invisible”

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Patti Chiari – My "Other Place"

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:  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

Custom Teaser:  Having decided it was “now“ rather than “never” that I would make the move to Italy in 2005, I had sold my house and given in my notice at work. So it was time to make the travel arrangements and those centred not around me, but around my precious dog, Simone Eggleton de Beauvoir [Simi]. Words by Pat Eggleton Having decided it was “now“ rather than “never” that I would make the move to Italy in 2005, I had sold my house and given in my notice at work.

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Patti Chiari – Have dog, will travel

Custom Teaser:  My hospital stay was a very interesting experience… Words by Pat Eggleton The doctors

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Patti Chiari – Hospital tales part 2

If you did not know, Forza Italia was the Italian political party which proceeded what is now Berlusconi’s People of Freedom party.  Recently in Italy two convicted criminals have stated during court hearings that the Forza Italia party was the product of an agreement between Berlusconi and the mafia. Initial claims, by mafia turncoat Gaspare Spatuzza, that Forza Italia was closely liked to the mafia were dismissed on the grounds of the reliability of the person who made such accusations.  After all, would you believe a convicted criminal?  When the mafia boss for whom Spatuzza had supposedly worked would not corroborate Spatuzza’s words, the validity of his claims became distinctly questionable.

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Was Forza Italia Formed by the Mafia? Part 1

Custom Teaser:  Today I hope you are going to help me solve one of the greatest medical mysteries of all time and it has nothing to do with diagnostics.. Words by Pat Eggleton Buongiorno, cari lettori. Today I hope you are going to help me solve one of the greatest medical mysteries of all time and it has nothing to do with diagnostics

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Patti Chiari – Getting to the bottom of it

Custom Teaser:  Knights ride into a girl’s life in many guises and mine is a neighbour who appears about once a month carrying packs of mineral water.

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Patti Chiari – Of Knights and Chargers – Sicilan Style

Custom Teaser:  Unless the economy deteriorates dramatically, the Italian property market is likely to stabilize on 2009 levels, with top end homes performing well while those at the lower end experience a greater drop in prices and sale volumes … Words by Carla Passino Unless the economy deteriorates dramatically, the Italian property market is likely to stabilize on 2009 levels, with top end homes performing well while those at the lower end experience a greater drop in prices and sale volumes.

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Italy to see stable property market in 2010

Custom Teaser:  Don’t worry – this isn’t going to be a morbid article! The 1997 Roberta Torre film “Tano da Morire” – one of the first to make fun of the Mafia – opens with a Sicilian funeral procession in which the women sing. They do not, in real life, sing as they follow a coffin to church and then to the cemetery but …. Words by Pat Eggleton Don’t worry – this isn’t going to be a morbid article!

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Patti Chiari – Death in Sicily