Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
The coast of Liguria (Italian Riviera) has many serene, undiscovered gems to visit. Few are more serene and lovely than the small village of San Fruttuoso, midway between Portofino and Camogli and on the edge of the sprawling park to which Portofino lends its name. San Fruttuoso, ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Catania, like so many of the enchanting towns and cities on the west coast of Sicily in Italy, is gloriously overlooked by the 3350m Mount Etna, while it in turn looks out onto the Ionian Sea. Sicily's second city, it is an irresistible mixture of various cultures down the ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Of all the ways to boost flagging tourism over summer it was arguably one of the most innovative. In the Italian Riviera resort of Alassio – a few miles north of Imperia along Liguria's coast – tourists and other motorists who parked illegally got a €36 ...
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
For Italian property bargain hunters the market has seldom been more affordable. Prices of property in Italy in the first half of 2008 were seven per cent down compared with the same period in 2007, a report reveals. In Milan, Naples and Palermo the drop was nine per cent, ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Surely it’s English that’s the real hotchpotch of a language. Everything from aardvark (South African Dutch) to zymurgy (Greek) and large helpings of Old English, Latin, French, German, Swahili, Danish and Old Mother Hubbard’s gobbledygook in-between.
Now it seems Italian, that noblest of Latin heirs, is determined to follow suit.
For instance, ...
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