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Danea Easyfatt 2006
If you happen to be registered for IVA - VAT in the UK, then you will have to prepare VAT invoices and it is nice to have some way of monitoring when and what people actually pay you

Rummo Pasta
I have discovered Rummo pasta and I like it

Nola - the Lily Festival and callouses
I've been asking a few people I know about the Nola festival that I

Free Wi-Fi in Parco Sempione, Milan!
Yes, the service is now here and, most probably, works

La Rosticceria
A 'rosticceria' is possibly the Italian equivalent of fast food, only this does not mean hamburgers or pizza and the like, but 'real' food

The Innovative Mr Alberico and his Sports Centre
Here is another story of a 'Good Italian Thing' that I discovered while starting a new English course last week which is tied to a part-time master in Sports Business Management

Cappelleria Melegari
Cappelleria Melegari is mainly a hat shop

Roccaraso, Abruzzo, Italy - Skiing off the beaten piste.
I have several friends from the south of Italy, but I was rather surprised to learn that one of them, Ciro, is an avid skier

Gigli Festival, Nola in Italy
Gaetano Salvo, who helps out with Blog from Italy, drew my attention to a particular festival that takes place annually in June in the town of

DIESEL
Nope, I'm not going to waffle on about eco friendly fuels, but in my continuing micro-attempt to raise the feel-good factor for Italy in these troubled times, I'm going to have a look at an Italian brand, which, at first, quite a few years, I did not know was Italian

Don't throw it way. Eat it!
My friend and student, Gaetano Salvo, showed me an article in one of Milan's free newspapers, City, about an organisation run by one Andrea Sergrè, who happens to be the head of the agriculture faculty at one of world's oldest universities, the University of Bologna

Brioni
You will know the names Versace, Armani and D&G, but I wonder how many know of

Pasticceria Scarpato - Nice cakes, shame about the website
I won't say how I found out about the site of Italian biscuit and cake maker,

Cogne - something I prepared a little earlier

The Power of Italy
In these troubled times in Italy, I'm going to buck the trend and have a look at something which puts Italy in the kind of light it should be in permanently

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Oct

Golden nose

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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.

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Oct

The street fair

2005 | Filed Under Milan - My Zone | Leave a Comment

I was happy to note that the traditional Paolo Sarpi street fair took place this year. Having witnessed the closure of many traditional Italian shops in this rather pleasant, and convenient shopping street, I was a little surprised to see that the fair was going to be held.

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Oct

The funny time of year

2005 | Filed Under Italy | Leave a Comment

October here in Italy is quite odd climate-wise. You get up in the morning and find that it is quite 'fresh' as my dad would put it. This means that it is neither warm, nor really cold. Still, it's best to put some sort of coat on in the mornings, or so I find. I'm sure my compatriots would not find it necessary to don a coat, but, well, my body is getting more and more tuned in to the Italian climate. Anyway, after slight shivers in the morning, you actually find youself sweating at around midday and the coat ceases to be a comfort and becomes an annoyance.

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The weather…..again

2005 | Filed Under Italy, Milan | Leave a Comment

Regular readers will know that the weather is one of my pre-occupations - it should be seeing as it was the 'orrible climate that got me out of the UK.

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