Before I arrived in Italy, I thought I knew three things about Italian TV: (i) Half the channels were owned by the Prime Minister; (ii) It was unmitigated shite, and (iii) There were game shows where housewives took their clothes off. When I arrived, I found out that the first two were (and still are) [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Thumper’s Hot Club: Stripping Italian Housewives
Posted in Italia, tagged Hot Stuff, Italian TV, Oh Thumper You Are Awful on September 28, 2008 | 29 Comments »
A Photo of an Italian Wine
Posted in Hooch, tagged Hooch, Italian Products on September 19, 2008 | 10 Comments »
A couple of posts back, ex-Scooby Doo star Daphne was asking for pictures of Italian wines on my dull new Italian photo blog. Apparently, she would rather see those than pictures of World Heritage Sites, beautiful scenery and Renaissance architecture, bloody soak that she is.
Still, I haven’t lived this long in Italy without learning that [...]
The Turin Bull’s Lucky Nads
Posted in Italia, Tourism, tagged Folklore, lucky nads, Milan on September 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
One of the weirdest things you’ll see in Milan is in the Vittorio Emmanuelle Shopping Gallery. There, in the middle of the gallery there are a series of mosaics in the floor, each representing a different Italian city (the gallery was constructed at the time of the unification of Italy). Rome is represented by Romus [...]
Associazione Culturale Birra e Musica
Posted in Italia, tagged Associazione Culturale Birra e Musica, Blogs, Photos on September 14, 2008 | 13 Comments »
I’ve started a new photoblog, Associazione Culturale Birra e Musica, which I’ll be using to post some photos from Italy from time to time, which among other things should prove that I do actually live over here, and have not been making these posts up from a bedsit in Stranraer.
Link is above, and over there [...]
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