One of the things that is frustrating about Italy is that you don’t get many restaurants offering foreign cuisine. It’s probably becuase the Italians approach anything that comes from outside of their home town or region with fear and suspicion, so that a Sicilian restaurant opening in Milan is considered World Cusine.
So I’ve decided to [...]
Archive for March, 2009
British Ristorante
Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2009 | 21 Comments »
Lost in the Summer Wine
Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2009 | 11 Comments »
SCENE ONE
Interior of Living Room in Italy; THUMPER PLOWMAN, a Scotch expatriate, enters carrying a tray of food (Fettuccine with Pachino Tomatoes and Millett Seed, plus a Tetrapak of Lidl red wine) and sits down in front of the TV. He turns on the BBC Prime Satellite Channel and sits down to watch Last of [...]
Brewhead Chic
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2009 | 21 Comments »
Sometimes, things just don’t pan out the way you thought they would. A notable feature of my town when I was growing up in the 80s was the local wino brigade (I don’t mean they were an actual brigade with uniforms and that, I just don’t know what the collective noun is for alcoholics. Perhaps [...]
Gonzoid Amphetamine Filth is Dead
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged sisters of mercy on March 11, 2009 | 8 Comments »
…. is how the run-out groove reads to one of The Sisters of Mercy’s 12″ singles from the 1980s. Turn the record over and the other side reads, naturally, “Long Live Gonzoid Amphetamine Filth”. Run-out grooves were one of the rituals of buying records in the 80s, and the Sisters’ Andrew Eldritch would often use [...]
Italian Travel Info: Pisa
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Leaning Tower of Pisa on March 6, 2009 | 16 Comments »
If you’ve been reading this blog for while you’ll know that every now and again (when I can’t think of anything to say about 80s Heavy Metal), I post some tips and advice on Italian culture for the benefit of folk wanting more information on the country. In this spirit, I thought I’d take a [...]
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