Pat Eggleton
Articles by Pat Eggleton
Italian octogenarians worried by yesterday’s driving ban story may soon be eating more tomatoes if claims for the new, square “super tomato” turn out…
Words by Pat Eggleton
You will all know that an Italian wouldn’t dream of beginning a meal without wishing everyone else at the table “Buon appetito”…
In this photo: George Clooney in the film "Up in the air"George Clooney is to testify as a civil plaintiff in a fraud and forgery trial in Italy, repo…
One hundred dozen bottles of Australian wine from Coonawarra will soon be on their way to Italy in readiness for the October celebrations of the canon…
In a bid to reduce road accidents, the Italian Parliament is considering banning drivers over the age of 80, the Telegraph reports. The idea is based…
Words by Pat EggletonLast Friday July 2nd marked the seventieth anniversary of the Arandora Star tragedy and in Cardiff, Wales, UK a memorial to the 5…
Words by Pat EggletonThe sound is still faint but it is definitely there and I have heard it, at dusk, for the past week. Yes, the cigali or cicadas a…
In Verona, home, of course, of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, a voluntary group of men and women answer over 5,000 letters a year addressed to…
Prosecutors in Rome have sent formal requests for judicial assistance to the US, France, Belgium and Germany with regard to the investigation into the…
The Welsh are nothing if not audacious and one has to admire the nerve of the Village Bakery [Nutrition] in Wrexham, North Wales, whose latest venture…
Anyone who has had to leave their bag in a locker, go through two security doors and pass the armed security guard standing at the entrance may be sur…
If you are in Arezzo [Tuscany] here is an exhibition to cheer you up: if you pop into the upmarket menswear shop, “Sugar” you can see a display of pop…
Words by Pat EggletonHave you ever been served, in Italy, a plate of those delightful, small appetisers called “stuzzichini”? Have you then wished tha…
Words by Pat EggletonAlex Roe is an Englishman who is trying to understand Italy. He came on the first leg of a world trip but then he met Crist…
Massimo Tartaglia, the man who attacked Premier Silvio Berlusconi with a spiked metal model of Milan Cathedral in December, has been acquitted by a ju…
Besides visiting the National Etruscan Museum and the painted tombs of the Monterozzi Necropolis, visitors to Tarquinia [Lazio] can now participate in…
Words by Pat EggletonTo ask if something is sold in a shop, we saysi vende plus objectif we are asking about one thing. - "si vende il pane? Do you se…
Words by Pat EggletonIn summer you may want to see a little greenery as well as taking time out from indoor museums. Here are five gardens in five dif…
Some patients who became blind in one eye as a result of chemical burns have had their sight totally or partially restored after undergoing adult stem…
The United States Supreme Court refused on Monday to consider an appeal by the Vatican for immunity in a paedophilia case. The case, brought in 2002,…