La Rosticceria
2007 | Filed Under Life in Italy | 4 Comments
A ‘rosticceria’ is possibly the Italian equivalent of fast food, only this does not mean hamburgers or pizza and the like, but ‘real’ food.
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- The ways of the sausage
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Welcome to the new look Blog from Italy!
2007 | Filed Under This blog | 2 Comments
I hope you like the new look, and you won’t find the ads too bothersome. Yes, this blog is going to have more of a focus on business, but in amongst the marketing stuff, you will find my usual posts. In fact, I’m going to create a new category that will be something like ‘Alex’s Stuff‘, and if you simply click on that link, you will be taken to all of my non-business posts.
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- No Winner of the BFI Hunt, Search, and the Presumed Hack Attack
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Sausage Crisis!
2007 | Filed Under 4-4-2 Pub | Leave a Comment
My good friends at the 4-4-2 pub in Milan, as I have mentioned before, are about to launch their full English breakfast. The launch is planned for the 28th and 29th of October, 2007. But the 4-4-2 has a problem, a big problem: that is they have no good frozen English sausages to serve up with their inaugural English breakfast. Alessandro the landlord urgently needs a supply of good frozen English sausages.
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- Progress on the sausage search front
- The sausage saga sizzles on
- Desperately seeking sausages!
- Exclusive! Full English Breakfast in Milan, Italy!
- The 442 Star
Apologies
2007 | Filed Under Blogging, Me | Leave a Comment
Sorry about not having responded to some of the interesting comments left by my readers. I’ve been a bit tied up with another project, and work. Normal service will be resumed!
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- 800 Posts!
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- Nice to know! Many thanks.
- Italian Paragraphs
Grey, wet, and dull in Milan today and breakfast.
2007 | Filed Under Life in Italy, Milan | 3 Comments
I almost cannot remember the last grey day here in Milan. It’s been so long. Anyway, to remind me that it is possible to have grey, wet, and dull weather in Italy, Milan today is suitably grey, wet and dull, with a hint of cool thrown in for good measure.
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- The ways of the sausage
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- Sausage Crisis!
Happiness - How happy are you?
2007 | Filed Under Me, Milan, Thoughts | Leave a Comment
On BBC World a few months back there was an interesting series about happiness and how it can be assessed. Unfortunately I did not manage to see the whole series, but I did like the idea of using happiness as a way of measuring of how well things are going in the world. It may seem simplistic, but it could well be highly accurate.
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- Milan’s Green Belt
- Will it always be Christmas in Milan?
- Milan’s Ecopass Not Working
- Oops! I’m in the wrong city!
- Christmas is a coming
Italy has Grillo, Myanmar/Burma has the Buddhist Monks, and both countries have unhappy people
2007 | Filed Under Italian news | 1 Comment
No, I know there is no comparison between the Italian oligarchy and the Burmese despots, but both are examples of the people being encouraged to revolt against arrogant, non-democratic leaderships. Some of the Buddhist monks who are bravely attempting to right the wrongs in their country may well end up being shot. The Burmese regime is known to be violent, and not too shy about opening fire on the unarmed, in true dictatorial fashion. And monks have died before in Burma for having previously attempted to protest against the regime.
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- Beppe Grillo rattles the establishment.
- Did you hear about ‘Vaffa’ day here in Italy?
- Sarkozy likes the BBC, possibly!
Italians
2007 | Filed Under Culture | 11 Comments
What I love about Italians:
They are friendly, hospitable, generous, intelligent, good humoured, gentle, well-dressed, tasteful, and family oriented. And they don’t get drunk and vulgar. There are also many other positive characteristics too.
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- Culture 1
- Too Young, too good
- The people
- Italy - A Power Crazed Nation? Part 1
- It’s a love hate thing
Added some more photos to my Flickr collection.
2007 | Filed Under Digital photography | 4 Comments
Hop on over to Flickr, if you wish, and look at the ‘Black and White’ set, where you will see some Black and white images of runners. I used a slow shutter, 1/25 to 1/40 to capture the motion of the runners. Just experiments really.
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Interesting
2007 | Filed Under Italian politics | 3 Comments
I’ve had a visitor from beniculturali.it - the site of the Italian Cultural Activity Ministry. And guess what was looked at, albeit very briefly, yep - my Beppe Grillo rattles the establishment post.
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- Clemente Mastella
- SNAFU
- The demagogue versus the demagogic oligarchy
- Heck I’ve been a bit slow - Prodi is trying to gag Italy’s bloggers!
- Confusion reigns
Why has nobody since Marx and Trotsky come up with an alternative socio-political philosophy?
2007 | Filed Under Thoughts | 2 Comments
This is a question I have put to myself on the odd occasion. The odd occasion that provoked this question once again was that of V-day in Italy and what appears to be an attempt to introduce a new, freer form of democracy in Italy, maybe. Grillo has stirred up a considerable furore as a result of the use of mass communication - a form of mass communcation, perhaps the last, that cannot easily be stifled.
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Spamtastic!
2007 | Filed Under Blogging | Leave a Comment
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