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Dear Students and VicenzaPiù friends and readers, it seems a long time since I was in Niksic, Montenegro, where I had a dental bridge installed. The bridge is still there, and I've had a few tasty steaks since then, so it seems to be in good nick.
I left Niksic on a hot morning, and travelled along the Montenegrin coast by bus, crawling through the little seaside resorts, where the main road twists along beside the sea, ther small hotels, and tourists in beachwear, down to the frontier town of Ulcinj. Continua a leggere
Bob's peregrinations
Martedi 14 Agosto 2012 alle 12:52
Dear Students and VicenzaPiù friends and readers, it seems a long time since I was in Niksic, Montenegro, where I had a dental bridge installed. The bridge is still there, and I've had a few tasty steaks since then, so it seems to be in good nick.I left Niksic on a hot morning, and travelled along the Montenegrin coast by bus, crawling through the little seaside resorts, where the main road twists along beside the sea, ther small hotels, and tourists in beachwear, down to the frontier town of Ulcinj. Continua a leggere
Categorie: Fatti
Life in the current economic climate is a struggle for many, although one doubts whether this applies to Diego Fontana, the disgraced chief of the council's decentralisation department, who despite hiding his second job, and lacking the requisite degree to be manager, still holds his position. The GDV, anxious to stay in with the mayor, Fontana's childhood buddy, ignored these misdeeds, when interviewing him about the failure of the council's summer holiday programme for pensioners to gain bookings.
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A new lease of life
Domenica 6 Maggio 2012 alle 22:22
Life in the current economic climate is a struggle for many, although one doubts whether this applies to Diego Fontana, the disgraced chief of the council's decentralisation department, who despite hiding his second job, and lacking the requisite degree to be manager, still holds his position. The GDV, anxious to stay in with the mayor, Fontana's childhood buddy, ignored these misdeeds, when interviewing him about the failure of the council's summer holiday programme for pensioners to gain bookings.
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Categorie: Fatti
St. Mark's Day is traditionally the day the inhabitants of the Serenissima take heart and throw themselves into the Adriatic for the first swim of the season. I didn't quite make it, lured as I was to see the new Peace Park opposite the Del Din or Dal Molin US base. Dalla Pozza's men were out in force, perhaps to discourage any enterprising beggars. I've noticed in the past their alacrity at holding up the mothers and children coming out of the school just after the first US base, Ederle, in Viale della Pace (Peace Avenue!) from using the zebra crossing outside, in order to allow the kids to inhale the exhaust fumes of the traffic roaring past.
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Our cat-eating microcosm
Domenica 29 Aprile 2012 alle 20:40
St. Mark's Day is traditionally the day the inhabitants of the Serenissima take heart and throw themselves into the Adriatic for the first swim of the season. I didn't quite make it, lured as I was to see the new Peace Park opposite the Del Din or Dal Molin US base. Dalla Pozza's men were out in force, perhaps to discourage any enterprising beggars. I've noticed in the past their alacrity at holding up the mothers and children coming out of the school just after the first US base, Ederle, in Viale della Pace (Peace Avenue!) from using the zebra crossing outside, in order to allow the kids to inhale the exhaust fumes of the traffic roaring past.
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Categorie: Fatti
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet", says lovelorn Juliet on learning the true identity of Romeo. What's in a name? A great deal, judging by the protests on all sides regarding the recent realisation that the Dal Molin American base is not to be! The libertine ex-premier's Defence Secretary, La Russa apparently renamed the place Dal Din, in honour of a partisan who died during the German retreat at the end of World War Two.
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What's in a name?
Domenica 22 Aprile 2012 alle 19:47
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet", says lovelorn Juliet on learning the true identity of Romeo. What's in a name? A great deal, judging by the protests on all sides regarding the recent realisation that the Dal Molin American base is not to be! The libertine ex-premier's Defence Secretary, La Russa apparently renamed the place Dal Din, in honour of a partisan who died during the German retreat at the end of World War Two.
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Categorie: Fatti
This uninspiring Friday afternoon, the gentle rain from heaven seems inexorable rather than merciful, as described by Portia when exhorting Shylock to let Antonio off the hook in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. OK, I admit we need it, it hasn't rained properly for a long time, but then, I doubt if Portia had to travel by bicycle, a dodgy venture in the Berican city at the best of times, soul-destroying in the rain.
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All work and no play...
Domenica 15 Aprile 2012 alle 12:53
This uninspiring Friday afternoon, the gentle rain from heaven seems inexorable rather than merciful, as described by Portia when exhorting Shylock to let Antonio off the hook in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. OK, I admit we need it, it hasn't rained properly for a long time, but then, I doubt if Portia had to travel by bicycle, a dodgy venture in the Berican city at the best of times, soul-destroying in the rain.
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Categorie: Ristorazione, Fatti
Pasta4u! The delicious ... iphone app
Sabato 14 Aprile 2012 alle 23:40
Pasta4u! is the iphone app that teaches you how to cook Italian pasta! Easy and fun, each recipe consists in a slideshow that guides you, step by step, in the preparation of a unique and tasty dish! All recipes and photos are original creations of the author, an Italian student (coming from Vicenza) living in the US .
Pasta4u! è la app per iPhone che ti guida nella creazione di ottimi primi piatti! Pensata per un pubblico internazionale (ma anche per gli Italiani), facile e divertente. Ogni ricetta è una creazione originale dall'autore (uno studente italiano di Vicenza che vive negli Stati Uniti) ed è presentata con una sequenza di immagini!
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Categorie: Fatti
The GDV has dedicated much space this week to the vexed question of Dal Molin. First of all the curious puddles emerging in the Peace Park due to a lack of foresight in planning. A harbinger of worse to come, as some fear real damage to our town's water supply. It is not impossible that they could have been avoided if the environmental checks sought by Variati, and refused by ‘Commissario' Costa had been carried out.
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The human dilemma
Sabato 7 Aprile 2012 alle 14:10
The GDV has dedicated much space this week to the vexed question of Dal Molin. First of all the curious puddles emerging in the Peace Park due to a lack of foresight in planning. A harbinger of worse to come, as some fear real damage to our town's water supply. It is not impossible that they could have been avoided if the environmental checks sought by Variati, and refused by ‘Commissario' Costa had been carried out.
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Categorie: Fatti
Always on the lookout for freebies - and I'm sorry, Coviello, but Città, the free offshoot of the GDV is my source (Coviello's note: «Don't worry, Bob, I'm for free...dom press»)- I cycled frenetically across town from Ferrovieri to the Conservatory in order to pick up a complimentary ticket to listen to the Sound of Poetry in the foyer of Dr. Hullweck's Mausoleum. Freebies usually attract the same faces, including my own, so I was surprised not to recognise any of the other guests. This was a sort of promotion of a nascent department of the Conservatory dedicated to contemporary music, as far as I could understand. Music by Billy Strayhorn and Federico Benedetti accompanied poems by Shakespeare, Petrarca and a certain Elio Pagliarini.
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Vicenza freebies
Domenica 1 Aprile 2012 alle 12:16
Always on the lookout for freebies - and I'm sorry, Coviello, but Città, the free offshoot of the GDV is my source (Coviello's note: «Don't worry, Bob, I'm for free...dom press»)- I cycled frenetically across town from Ferrovieri to the Conservatory in order to pick up a complimentary ticket to listen to the Sound of Poetry in the foyer of Dr. Hullweck's Mausoleum. Freebies usually attract the same faces, including my own, so I was surprised not to recognise any of the other guests. This was a sort of promotion of a nascent department of the Conservatory dedicated to contemporary music, as far as I could understand. Music by Billy Strayhorn and Federico Benedetti accompanied poems by Shakespeare, Petrarca and a certain Elio Pagliarini.
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Categorie: Fatti
The race for mayor of London, my native city, is hotting up. Two top candidates are Boris Johnson, incumbent Tory, and the former maverick Labour mayor he replaced, Ken Livingstone. As befits a capital city, both are colourful, though not coloured. Livingstone's best remembered, and now generally accepted, change was the introduction of a tax for cars entering central London. Of course it's not a magic solution, but within limits it works. Money to spend on public transport and slightly fresher air.
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Fresh air
Domenica 25 Marzo 2012 alle 21:34
The race for mayor of London, my native city, is hotting up. Two top candidates are Boris Johnson, incumbent Tory, and the former maverick Labour mayor he replaced, Ken Livingstone. As befits a capital city, both are colourful, though not coloured. Livingstone's best remembered, and now generally accepted, change was the introduction of a tax for cars entering central London. Of course it's not a magic solution, but within limits it works. Money to spend on public transport and slightly fresher air.
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Categorie: Fatti
A friend of mine from the Deep South near Naples assures me that his part of Italy was better off under the Bourbons. A thriving economy and a trade surplus. There seems to be a lingering discontent with the Italian state in these parts too. A discontent that is often distorted by hypocrisy, shrill and vulgar language bordering on hate talk, with a particular vehemence towards immigrant communities.
It was therefore with some scepticism that I saw a stand vaunting a banner with the words ‘Stato Veneto' in one of the little alleys connecting Piazza dei Signori to Corso Palladio. Continua a leggere
A question worth asking
Domenica 18 Marzo 2012 alle 21:24
A friend of mine from the Deep South near Naples assures me that his part of Italy was better off under the Bourbons. A thriving economy and a trade surplus. There seems to be a lingering discontent with the Italian state in these parts too. A discontent that is often distorted by hypocrisy, shrill and vulgar language bordering on hate talk, with a particular vehemence towards immigrant communities.It was therefore with some scepticism that I saw a stand vaunting a banner with the words ‘Stato Veneto' in one of the little alleys connecting Piazza dei Signori to Corso Palladio. Continua a leggere
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A question worth asking
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