Knights ride into a girl’s life in many guises and mine is a neighbour who appears about once a month carrying packs of mineral water. I cannot remember exactly when he began to speak to me or offered to bring me water from the supermarket but I certainly didn’t hint at a need or tell him I had no transport. It is a simple act of kindness...
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Unless the economy deteriorates dramatically, the Italian property market is likely to stabilize on 2009 levels, with top end homes performing well while those at the lower end experience a greater drop in prices and sale volumes ...
Read MoreI love Italy, and in particular, Sicily, with all my heart but if there is one thing that tries my “pazienza” here it is the water supply. “But Sicily is an island”, I hear you say, “so how can there be a water shortage?” I still do not know the answer to this question, just as I have never figured out exactly why water in this part of Modica is delivered by lorry ...
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After the Foodie guide to Arance, we post this recipe that matches meat with oranges...
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Istria-born Lidia Matticchio Bastianich explores the lesser known cuisines of Italy in her eminently usable book, Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy
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Much remains to be done in the Abruzzo city nearly a year after it was devastated by an earthquake. Tara McLaughlin reports..
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Lucia Cockcroft reveals the pleasures and pitfalls of travelling solo in Italy ...
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Don’t worry – this isn’t going to be a morbid article!
The 1997 Roberta Torre film “Tano da Morire” – one of the first to make fun of the Mafia – opens with a Sicilian funeral procession in which the women sing. They do not, in real life, sing as they follow a coffin to church and then to the cemetery but ....
Oranges, together with apples, are the most appreciated fruit in Italy and are considered by many the best remedy against winter's cold and flu, and the perfect natural vitamin c source.
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Structurally restored and ready to be finished off, this old house is beautifully placed at the heart of one of Umbria’s prettiest historic towns ..
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