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This site has a fantastic selection of free photos. Check it out here. Try searching to find what you might want. It’s all copyright free, so you can do what you like with the images and you can use them for business or personal projects. Very, very useful. I use some of the images on my English idioms blog.
A useful site, almost - ATM Milan.
If you happen to find yourself coming to Milan, then you may find this site almost useful. It’s a route planner produced by the local public transport company here in Milan, ATM. The link points to the English version of the site, but if you happen to go on a clicking frenzy and want to come back to the route planner page, select the English version and then click on ‘Calculate path’ or ‘Calcola percorso‘, if the English expression magically disappears.
To use the route planner you just put your start address , without ‘Via’, (so ‘Via Torino’ becomes ‘Torino’) in the ‘Da Indirizzo’ field (so much for the English version), plus the street number in the ‘civico’ box and your target address in ‘Ad Indirizzo’ and the street number in the other ‘civico’ box. Hit ‘Avvia il calcolo’ (great English) and hey presto, you will get I nice little map which you can zoom in on and a route plan which tells you which buses/trams/metros you need to get to where you want to go. Only the route plan explanations are all in Italian, which English speakers may be able to follow, but then again, may be not. Hence the title of this post.
Perhaps the link on the site should be re-named to ‘Almost English Version’, so you know what to expect.
Paris Hilton
The world, I think, boasts at least two Paris Hiltons - there is the hotel, which is in Paris, France, then there is the global brand socialite who also goes by the name of Paris Hilton, where presumably she was made. We’ve got Paris Hilton, the person, on the telly at the moment in Italy. She is appearing in an ad for 3 mobile phones. Now, I think there maybe more than two Paris Hiltons. Have you ever had a look at any of the many photos of the not at all publicity shy young lady? Well, I happened upon a website with lots of images of the girl. Only some of them are so different, I am starting to believe that there is more than one Paris Hilton lady; maybe there is a whole army of them. Was she the product of the first real cloning experiment? I wonder. Just a mad thought on a cool and rainy Wednesday.
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