How good is your Italian? I've been learning for 3 years now but still struggling with stuff like this, and translation via Google.it or other translators still leaves it in double dutch. I've got a traffic fine. Two payment slips arrived, attached to the same document, in the post and the wording says:

Il bollettino 1 deve essere utilizzato per il pagamento della seguente sanzione nei seguenti casi:

First of all, I would like to say that other than the odd bottle of wine or meal, I have no financial interest whatsoever,  in any property or estate agency business.

I read today (5/2-2011) David Cameron’s multiculturism is dead!!  And this puts me in a frame of mind after reading numerous postings on this site - what are you foreigners in Italy doing here…?? Is it just the climate…??

I hope no one minds me giving my friends new web-site a mention.

www.baccusardus.com

Pictures of the beautiful wine region Oltrepo Pavese in Lombardy.

A very funny book which will definately help you to learn colloquial Italian.

(Dont read it if you go to church a lot though)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dirty-Italian-Everyday-Slang-whats/dp/1569755663...

Did anyone go to the meeting in the town hall last Monday about parking in Amandola? I couldn't go but wondered what was said.

On Monday I discovered that permission was granted (Nov 23) from Regione Marche, for a field of a thousand photovoltaic panels just to the left of our house. There are another 3 sites in this area also with permission, all on agricultural land and there is a 4th in an industrial area.