Pat Eggleton
Articles by Pat Eggleton
Mon, 04/19/2010 - 09:38
In Perugia on Saturday Amanda Knox’s legal team launched an appeal of over 300 pages against her 26-year sentence for the murder of British student Me…
Fri, 04/16/2010 - 06:52
Words by Pat EggletonSpring has come to Sicily and seeing the new season’s cherry tomatoes in the shops has reminded me that it will soon be time to m…
Fri, 04/16/2010 - 06:13
Italy today mourns its best-loved actor, comedian and TV presenter, Raimondo Vianello, who died yesterday at the age of 87. Both President Napolitano…
Fri, 04/16/2010 - 05:14
If you have an iPhone the Uffizi Gallery can be literally at your fingertips from today.
The official Uffizi iPhone application allows you to visit t…
Thu, 04/15/2010 - 05:42
Italy has the highest percentage of elderly people in Europe and by 2050 it is estimated that one person in two will be aged over 60 and one in six ov…
Thu, 04/15/2010 - 04:22
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini yesterday intervened – rather belatedly, according to his critics – in the strange case of three Italian aid…
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 04:07
Words by Pat EggletonDo you have your latest travel insurance policy to hand? Or maybe you still have an old one? Take a look at it and see if you can…
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 03:51
In this photo: Beatles performing at Teatro Adriano in Rome, 1965
It’s nice to know that the Vatican has its mind on serious matters as, in the week…
Wed, 04/14/2010 - 03:28
If two things are certain in this life they are that it is not fair and that if something tastes good, sooner or later someone will declare that it’s…
Tue, 04/13/2010 - 10:43
Words by Pat Eggleton
The plural of pizza is pizze.
The plural of panino [sandwich] is panini.
Bruschetta is pronounced broos-ket-ah, not broosheta […
Tue, 04/13/2010 - 06:13
Words by Pat Eggleton
There are those who drop the idea of a June wedding into an everyday conversation, as if they were asking you if you’d like them…
Tue, 04/13/2010 - 04:04
In this photo: Palazzo Mocenigo, VeniceA visit from the grandparents is often an opportunity for Mum and Dad to escape for a while though most of us a…
Mon, 04/12/2010 - 04:50
In this photo: Australian author and feminist Germaine Greer at the 2006 Humber Mouth Festival - Photo by Walnut WhippetWell, who’d have thought it? A…
Mon, 04/12/2010 - 03:41
The Turin Shroud, believed to have been the burial cloth of Christ, went on display in Turin Cathedral on Saturday evening and can be viewed until 23…
Fri, 04/09/2010 - 10:16
Words by Pat EggletonOne of the differences a British person will immediately notice when shopping in Italy is that there are many stores where you ar…
Fri, 04/09/2010 - 04:50
Today sees the release in Italy of the film “Basilicata Coast to Coast”, a road movie which is also a bittersweet comedy and a musical. It marks the d…
Fri, 04/09/2010 - 04:13
The RU486 abortion pill was used in a non-experimental way for the first time in Italy on Tuesday amid much controversy. The issue of abortion gives r…
Thu, 04/08/2010 - 04:14
A certain signor Giuseppe Gioia, who owns the Cantieri Navali Brindisi shipyard, spent Wednesday evening defending his much-derided idea of building f…
Thu, 04/08/2010 - 03:55
A coffee era ends as the Bialetti company, which makes the Moka Express – that’s the stovetop espresso maker with the little moustachioed man trademar…
Wed, 04/07/2010 - 03:48
In this photo: Pope Pius XII at a procession for Bamberg festivities - German Federal Archive“When you’re in a hole, stop digging.” One could be forgi…