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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA7XQSm1nj8&feature=youtu.beWish I was going to be there...looks fantastically bizarre!

Wed, 07/04/2012 - 11:20

I found this online and would love to get hold of an original. Any suggestions? The Gran Sasso giftshop didn't have any!!http://tinypic.com/r/359cx9j/6

Wed, 07/04/2012 - 07:54

Someone asked me to report on our stay in the Ospizio San Gottardo on our way down by car. Having recovered sufficiently from the heat on arrival in Italy here goes:Thanks to all of you who recommended routes and hotels.

Tue, 06/19/2012 - 08:38

In September I'm doing the nearest I'll ever do to jetsetting by flying back to London for a meeting then out again the next day! I'm planning to leave the hire car at Ciampino overnight.

Fri, 05/25/2012 - 14:47

New website:http://www.thelittlebritishfoodshop.com/Delivery all over Italy

Thu, 05/17/2012 - 18:10

I've just finished this book written in 1966 by John Verney, who was a PoW in Sulmona and was looked after by local contadini after his escape.

Mon, 04/23/2012 - 19:25

Apologies if you've seen this before.

Thu, 03/22/2012 - 05:43

Hitting Dunkirk 7pm local time on 15th June and planning to get a couple of hours under our belt. I have been looking at hotels around Namur, but can't decide.

Fri, 03/09/2012 - 13:09

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Wed, 06/01/2011 - 06:22

I signed up to the Internazionale online without any probs - so it's certainly worth a try.  And saves a fortune in calls all over Europe.  I don't think there are any limitations ......

Mon, 05/30/2011 - 13:17

let's hope this is at least the end of the beginning

Sat, 05/21/2011 - 16:10

Would that be before or after the grenades had blown it up???!

Sat, 05/21/2011 - 16:09

I second Terry's recommendation of "Italy's Sorrow".  Harrowing reading though, since it is mostly personal testimony of a bloody carnage that has always unfairly played second fiddle to D-Day. Not your region, but there is a lot of information about PoWs camps in Marche here: http://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/

Answer to: Kindle
Sat, 05/14/2011 - 07:12

Logged on to BBC website???? Do tell - if it can be used for web access as well that makes it even better!!

Answer to: Kindle
Sat, 05/14/2011 - 04:50

Bought mine in UK, took it out to Italy and downloaded newspapers daily.  Came back to UK and Kindle still registered in UK. I haven't used it since my return.  But I do have the 3G version.

Answer to: Kindle
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 12:15

WE don't have wi-fi in our house in S Marche but having bourght the more expensive 3G Kindle that worked fine.  Halfway up a mountain last week we saw Obama on the telly in the bar and I was able on returning to the house to download The Times on a free trial to find out what was going on.  Pretty cool - though the Thunderer isn't my newspaper of choice....

Thu, 04/21/2011 - 04:54

I'm with you Casa.  Immigration is used as a political football and cheap vote-mongering.  There's a case in UK this week where a woman trafficked from Moldova was sent back,despite her applying for asylum, because the authorities did not consider her at risk.  Guess what? She was kidnapped again, tortured, gang-raped and re-trafficked.  She's in the news because she had the gumption to sue the UK Government who have just paid her damages. It's worth remembering the human plight behind so many of these cases.  And to take the long view.  Remember the panic about Poles flooding the UK a few years back?  Now we're complaining we can't find any more plumbers because they've gone home again! The UK is a mongrel nation and has been ever since the Normans invaded.  And all the better for it...

Tue, 03/29/2011 - 15:17

The rules about registering even if staying in a hotel go way back beyond 2001 and I've always thought they were just unrepealed bits of fascist law  - though given the Red Brigade, the "years of Lead" and the neo-fascist bombing of Bologna station I can see how they may be old anti-terrorist laws.

Fri, 03/04/2011 - 08:49

Quote"Almost all the heat from a radiant source is converted to warmth that humans can perceive only when it strikes a solid object" I.e. my legs sited as close as possible to it!