This my blog page where you will find the latest post on top, and years and years of older posts below.
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Enjoy your stay here and check back once in a while!
The text in this analysis of Italy’s post-fascist (and now communist?) constitution shows that our current limitations of personal freedom and restrictions of movements are
In the light of the recent attack on their customers, it seems like most current social media are indeed Socialist Media and only exist to
by John Carr How the Greeks Halted Italy’s Albanian Offensive This is a fascinating book, especially for those of us not specialized in the Balkan
But unfortunately not on the actually cockpit build….. However, not all is bad, although getting old really feels like it… <grin>. Time passes at lightning
2020-04-20 By Simon Forty Images of War – Photographs from Wartime Archives And yet another book in the Images of War series. This one is
So if you think only my good friend Glenn Colin de Kavanagh-Norman can write adventure stories….. think again… . ‘Operation Spesa’ was successful. Today I
The mountain across from our place is called Monte Martano and is almost 2000 meters high (6000 feet). You can actually drive up almost to
I had read about this model fair months before and planned on visiting, if only to understand the size of the scale model market in
Gubbio boasts to have the biggest Christmas tree in the WORLD ! Well, duh….. it is a tree made out of 500 lights, posted on
Alright, it took me a year of contemplating, several weeks of googling, and these past two days hours and hours of internet ‘work’ PLUS not
Ik heb geen geduld (meer) voor muziek, ben 3 keer in mijn leven naar het Concertgebouw geweest, krimp in elkaar bij opera, vind Picasso een
I am now thoroughly convinced that there is an Italian traffic rule that I was not aware of. As a foreigner here, you would never
Italy’s bureaucracy: one step forward, 2 backwards 6 months ago we tried to get Nina admitted as resident, but at the town hall they told
One of the things here in Italy you have to watch out for, is not hurt ladies’ hands while driving through the streets of your
YESSSSSSS !! Against all odds (we think) we sold our little apartment in the French Alps. We had it for almost 17 years and we
…. blog posts that is. Let me tell you, working and living in two countries doesn’t leave much time to blog on top of it.
Because, you see, in spite of all my good intentions and living in Italy for a month I haven’t been able to update my site
Well, we have STARTED to move at least. Just had news from our friends and neighbors in Umbria that the gas/heating system has been fixed…..
When moving into another place there are many things to be taken care of. When moving into another country, there are many MORE! When we
Or ‘hitting eggs’. A custom I learned about in Romania….. bu not surprisingly its origins lay in Italy since Romania and its language are formed
We just did…… and we had HELP. We used friends there that already went through the process, and we used a very good book with
A tutti i nostri (Facebook) amici italiani: siamo lieti di annunciare che siamo in procinto di acquistare una bella casa in Umbria, in un piccolo
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