tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57640196432757918182024-03-13T15:12:58.735+01:00News from ItalySharing our everyday life in Lazio and beyond.LindyLouMachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282788551449445133noreply@blogger.comBlogger404125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764019643275791818.post-67232459486230930732013-06-14T09:19:00.000+02:002013-06-14T09:19:55.995+02:00News From Italy Blog DedicationThe best part of the last ten years has been spent with my husband David living a dream life in Northern Lazio, Italy. Sadly his recent death has meant the end of this adventure. We were a close couple and I do not want to live full time alone in Italy. It is too early yet to say how much time I will spend in Italy every year but sadly I feel it will not be enough to warrant continuing with my blog 'News From Italy'<br />
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Thankyou for all the wonderful support I have had from all around the world.<br />
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I am dedicating 'News From Italy' to this wonderful man, who was a very special husband, father, brother, son, uncle and friend to all who knew him.<br />
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David Stewart McFall July 27th 1950 - May 24th 2013<br />
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<br />LindyLouMachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282788551449445133noreply@blogger.com5001100 Viterbo Province of Viterbo, Italy42.4206766 12.10766899999998742.3737906 12.026987999999987 42.4675626 12.188349999999987tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764019643275791818.post-64985230934431546152013-04-08T21:57:00.000+02:002013-04-08T21:57:30.054+02:00Moving On A New Chapter<div class="MsoNormal">
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<i><span style="color: #3f4a50; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Last year in readiness for the next chapter in our life
adventure we put the house on the market to sell. Since moving to Italy we have
done up and sold two properties which has kept us very busy and also been great
fun. We had decided though that in the future we would like to be able to do
more travelling including spending sometime every year in the UK. With the
olive grove and various fruit trees in the large garden which was almost a full
time commitment this was just not going to be possible. It was time therefore
to move to a more manageable property and hopefully the next one will be in the
centre of Marta so that we do not have to get in the car every time we need to
do something. Even a trip to the rubbish bins entails getting in the car if you
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<i><span style="color: #3f4a50; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">In November we set off for the UK planning to spend a few months
renovating a property we had purchased in Wales. We were very excited as prior
to our departure we had accepted an offer on the house here with plans for
completion at the end of March 2013. This fitted in perfectly with our
intention of being back in Italy by the end of February to sort everything out for
the sale. However as the saying goes, the best laid plans!</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #3f4a50; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Life started to go horribly wrong for us when just a few weeks
after arriving in Wales my husband was admitted to hospital. What we had
thought was a severe bout of gastric sickness turned out to be much more
serious, involving three months in hospital and major surgery. Thanks to the extreme
kindness of friends and family in Italy and the UK we were able to push ahead
with the sale of the Italian house and it was all completed just before Easter.<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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at least start planning the next Italian and other adventures. Although we are
going to need to be patient with regards to our return to Italy in search of
the next property to purchase as we need to get him fit first. We have a long
road to recovery ahead of us after all he has been through.<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #3f4a50; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">We are not going to be back in Italy yet awhile so I am not
going to be writing any more posts about our life in Lazio until we do return
for the next chapter of our Italian adventure. I cannot write about day to day
life when I am not there to experience it sadly, although maybe I will be able
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News From Italy page and if you would like to keep in touch with our life
adventures you can do so via my other blogs. <a href="http://lindyloumacsworldinphotos.blogspot.co.uk/">LindyLouMac's World in Photos</a> and <a href="http://lindyloumactraveltales.blogspot.co.uk/">Travel Tales</a> Also of course if you enjoy books I would love to welcome you to <a href="http://lindyloumacbookreviews.blogspot.co.uk/">LindyLouMac's Book Reviews</a>.</span></i><br />
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LindyLouMachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282788551449445133noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764019643275791818.post-71623208345686867922013-03-29T13:10:00.001+01:002013-08-04T15:56:01.737+02:00Buona Pasqua - Happy Easter - 2013<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">In celebration of Easter I would like to wish all my family, friends and followers an enjoyable and peaceful time. We will not be with our daughters but we will be thinking of them, one daughter on holiday in India, the other in Salisbury. Good news, though is that my husband is at last home from hospital, yesterday just in time for Easter. We may not be in Italy as we had hoped to be for Easter but at least we are </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">together</span><span style="line-height: 22px;"> again.</span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"> It has been a long three months as apart from a gap of two weeks he was in hospital the entire time. We came to spend some time in Wales last winter, which is where my sister and brother-in-law live. The plan was to work on the renovation of a little </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">town house</span><span style="line-height: 22px;"> we have purchased in the beautiful town of Tywyn on the Welsh coast and the edge of the Snowdonia National Park. Those of you that follow <a href="http://lindyloumacsworldinphotos.blogspot.co.uk/">lindyloumacsworldinphotos</a> will have seen </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">photographs.</span><span style="line-height: 22px;"> It is a beautiful place to for my husband to spend his convalescence until he is fit enough for us to return to Italy for the next chapter in our life adventure.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;">The video of Easter images is set to Povia singing 'Vorrei avere il becco' which translates literally as 'I wish I had the beak' the original version can be found on YouTube. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuGZimLgAd4&feature=artist" style="color: #285256; text-decoration: none;">Link to YouTube Video of Povia performing this song.</a></span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"> Easter Greetings set to Music - Auguri di Buona Pasqua.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"> <span style="background-color: #ebebeb;">Uploaded by </span><a class="yt-user-name author" dir="ltr" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/domy1292" rel="author" style="background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; color: #285256; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">domy1292</a><span style="background-color: #ebebeb;"> on </span><span class="watch-video-date" id="eow-date" style="background-color: #ebebeb; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Feb 15, 2008</span></span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;">For those of you that have not been reading News From Italy for very long, I have posted about Easter in previous years, including some beautiful music and videos. I am including links to some of my previous posts, with a brief explanation of the information you will find if you visit them.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><br /><a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.it/2010/04/maundy-thursday-holy-thursday.html" style="color: #285256; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #444444;">Giovedi Santo - Maundy Thursday</span></a><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;">On this morning this<span style="line-height: 25px;"> the Pope carries out a mass known as 'Mass of the Chrism', in St Peter's Basilica. The chrism is a mixture of balsam and olive oil that is used in some of the sacraments after it has been blessed. I am not a member of the Roman Catholic Church but of the Church of England, but this post I hope does explain a little of what happens in the few days prior to Easter Sunday in the Roman Catholic church</span></span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 25px;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 25px;"><a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.it/2010/04/holy-week-good-friday-venerdi-santo.html" style="color: #285256; text-decoration: none;">Venerdi Santo - Good Friday</a></span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">Good Friday is not a Bank Holiday here in Italy as it is very much considered a day of mourning. </span>The Roman Catholic Church treats Good Friday as a fast day, normally in the one main meal only fish is eaten.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;">This post also includes a video showing one of the many Venerdi Santo Processions that take place in the evening. We have witnessed a number now in various towns and I find they are very emotional occasions.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><br /><a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.it/2011/04/sunday-song-easter-sunday-domenica-di.html" style="color: #285256; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #444444;">Sunday Song - Easter Sunday - Domenica di Pasqua</span></a><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amedeo_Minghi" style="color: #285256; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Amedeo Minghi</a>, an Italian singer songwriter with his beautiful rendition of ‘Gerusalemme’ 'Jerusalem' a piece commissioned by the Vatican on the occasion of the 'Jubilee 2000'.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.it/2011/04/buona-pasqua-happy-easter.html" style="color: #285256; text-decoration: none;">Buona Pasqua - Happy Easter </a></span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;">Last year I posted a general update of the Easter festivities saying that our thoughts were with all our family, friends both real and virtual where ever they were in the world for a Buona Pasqua – Happy Easter.</span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;">Enjoy your Easter Break may it be peaceful and happy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">NB: Those of you that have been following News From Italy for more than a year may recognise material in this post from last year. Forgive me but the internet connection in the beach house we are renting while my husband's convalescing is dreadful much worse than an connection we have ever had in Italy! This means posting is not easy, slow connections are just not made for blogging.</span></span></div>
LindyLouMachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282788551449445133noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764019643275791818.post-32904105375025762742013-03-06T19:45:00.001+01:002013-03-06T19:45:15.745+01:00La Festa della Donna – International Women’s Day - March 8th 2013<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Italy takes part in International Women’s Day, La Festa della Donna when women of all ages celebrate this special day dedicated to them with celebratory dinners or just get together with other female friends and are often presented with bunches of bright yellow Mimosa, the recognised symbol of the day here.<br /><br />If you happen to be in Italy on March 8th and you are a women you may just get presented with a bunch of Mimosa. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="line-height: 22px;">International Women’s Day is recognised and celebrated in many countries around the world and the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women's economic, political and social achievements. Although originally a Socialist political event, the day grew in the culture of many countries, primarily in Eastern Europe. In many regions, the day has lost its political flavour, and become simply an occasion for men to express their love for women in a way somewhat similar to a mixture of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day" style="text-decoration: none;">Mother's Day</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Valentine%27s_Day" style="text-decoration: none;">St Valentine's Day</a>. In other regions, however, the original political and human rights theme designated by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations" style="text-decoration: none;">United Nations</a> runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner.</span><br /><br /><span style="line-height: 22px;">In 2011 March 8th marked the centenary of one of the events that is thought to have been the birth of International Women’s Day. When in March 1911 more than one million women and men attended rallies in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland campaigning for women’s rights to work, vote, be trained, to hold public office and end discrimination.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thankyou for all your messages of support concerning David and his health problems. He has now been back in hospital for a second stretch of a month and waiting for his operation when he is fit enough, hopefully not much longer now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With thanks also to the following sites for information used in this post <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_di_Sanremo_2013">Wikipedia - Festival di San Remo 2013</a>, <a href="http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2013/02/18/Sanremo-song-fest-garners-record-audience_8268159.html">ANSA News - San Remo</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unRjK82bDLw">YouTube</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You may have noticed that my recent posts have all been musical. My apologies for bias towards this subject but at the moment with my husband still in hospital I have not had much time to be more imaginative with my posts. I also find music very soothing at this time, so please bear with me if you are not interested in my musical posts, until I can spend more time here blogging about our life in Italy.</span>LindyLouMachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282788551449445133noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764019643275791818.post-39649114402690348572013-01-25T17:18:00.000+01:002013-01-25T17:18:00.630+01:00Musical Moment - Momento Musicale - Friar Alessandro - The Voice of Assisi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px; text-align: start;">I mainly share the written word and photos on News From Italy but three years ago in February 2010 I started sharing music with a Sunday Song post which appeared on a regular and then gradually a more irregular basis. It has been surprisingly successful and I was recently asked why it has only appeared three times over the last year.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px; text-align: start;">In response I am again reviving the posting of Italian Music, as the majority of readers seem keen on me doing so, (with apologies to S who always skips the music posts and to D whose internet connection is not good enough for her to listen to them). Musical Moment - Momento Musicale will therefore appear from time to time throughout the year, probably when I come across an artist I particularly like, or is popular in Italy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Friar Alessandro, is a Franciscan friar and a tenor singer of religious music and the first religious brother to gain an exclusive record contract with a major record label. He was born Alessandro Brustenghi in Assisi, Italy in 1978. Alessandro started in playing music when he was just 9 wanting to becoming a percussionist. At 14 he started learning piano and organ. He also sung in choirs, but never as a lead singer. At 21, he joined the Franciscan order and sang in the order at the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli at Assisi, Italy where he worked as a joiner-carpenter. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The friars first noticed his beautiful tenor voice, when he had to pass a vocal exam to enter the ministry. Some of his recordings were introduced to Mike Hedges (producer to U2, Dido, The Cure, Manic Street Preachers amongst others) who after hearing his voice offered to produce his album in the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London, that would include sacred music, both traditional and contemporary.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To record the album he had to take a plane to London, the first time ever that he had travelled by air. Also true to his pledge of poverty, Alessandro refused to receive any monetary compensation for the sale of the album, proceeds go to the Order of Friars Minor as a registered charity to assist Franciscan charity activities in different parts of the world. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His debut album is called <i>Voice from Assisi</i> and was was released on 15 October 2012. Relax and enjoy the tracks I have shared. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">I hope you enjoyed the first Momento Musicale of 2012, do let me know. Have a lovely weekend everyone where ever you may be and however you are spending it. Thankyou for all the messages of support, David and I are both doing fine, just so pleased to be together again after thirty days apart! David has a long road to recovery ahead, but slowly and surely he is determined to get there. </span>LindyLouMachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282788551449445133noreply@blogger.com1006081 Assisi Province of Perugia, Italy43.0707017 12.61959660000002343.0475007 12.579256100000023 43.0939027 12.659937100000022tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764019643275791818.post-84943187879588719552013-01-15T14:08:00.002+01:002013-01-15T14:08:45.112+01:00Costa Concordia Disaster One Year Later - Costa Concordia Disastro Un Anno Dopo<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span>I am today reposting a beautiful song that was released last March in the wake of the Costa Concordia disaster. <a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/sunday-song-costa-concordia-tribute.html">Costa Concordia Tribute</a> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">The Costa Concordia partially sank after hitting rocks, then running aground off the coast of the small Italian island, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isola_del_Giglio" style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: initial;">Isola del Giglio</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">, not far from the mainland. Over four thousand people had to be evacuated and sadly there were inevitably deaths and injuries. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_Pelmelay" style="text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Justine Pelmelay</a> a singer from the Netherlands and <a href="http://www.antonellotonna.com/" style="text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Antonella Tonna</a> an Italian pianist got together after both surviving the tragedy. The pianist <a href="http://www.antonellotonna.com/" style="text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Antonella</a> was working on board the cruise liner and the singer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_Pelmelay" style="text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Justine</a> was with her partner on a vacation. The song recalls those moments when it felt like ‘Time Stood Still’ and I think it is a moving tribute. It was decided that all proceeds from the song went to the residents of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isola_del_Giglio" style="text-decoration: initial;">Isola del Giglio</a> who went out of their way that night to offer shelter to the survivors of the disaster.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">On Sunday as the Anniversary of the Costa Concordia disaster approached, time stood still all over Italy. On the island of Giglio and the nearby mainland sirens were sounded and lanterns were released into the sky in memory of the thirty two people that lost their lives in the disaster. As dawn broke the massive rock that tore the 70 metre/230 foot hole in in the ship and became embedded in the hull, was lowered back onto the reef with a memorial plaque attached to it. Relatives of those that died in the disaster were there to take part in the ceremony.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">The 32 people, included two whose bodies were never found included 12 Germans, seven Italians, six French nationals, two Americans, two Peruvian crew members, one Hungarian, one Spaniard and an Indian. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">The Concordia remains on its side, off the island of Giglio. Officials now say it may take until September to prepare the ship to be rolled upright and towed from the rocks to a port to be dismantled, an operation on this scale has never before been attempted. The cost is expected to now exceed 400 million euros. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">According to Italian tradition 'La Befana' is an old witch woman that flies in on her broom to visit children on the night between 5 and 6 January, before Epiphany, to fill the socks that are left hanging near a chimney or window. It is traditional also to leave this kind-hearted witch some refreshments, such as a tangerine, an anchovy, smoked herring or a pickled onion and of course a glass of red wine. If the children have been good they will find their stockings filled with tangerines, dried fruit, nuts, sweets and other small gifts. Naughty children will just receive a stocking full of coal!</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.5em;">The origins of 'La Befana' are thought to be related to old agricultural pagan traditions when the twelfth night </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.5em;">after the winter solstice, celebrated the death and rebirth of nature, through the pagan figure of Mother Nature . The Romans believed that in these twelve nights, female figures were flying over the fields to bless future harvests. To guide them according to some was Diana , goddess of the moon related to the vegetation. The Church condemned such beliefs, saying they were the result of satanic influence. These stories have given rise to many stories which resulted in the Middle Ages in 'La Befana,'</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">According to a Christian version, one of many The Three Kings , directed to Bethlehem to bring gifts to baby Jesus, unable to find their way, ask directions of an elderly lady. So somehow the leaving of sweets for children along the way in the hope that one of them was the Baby Jesus has linked these two events together.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Italians are well known for their love of festivals and celebrations and New Year’s Eve is no exception. December 31st is known as <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notte_di_San_Silvestro">La Festa di San Silvestro</a>',</span><span style="line-height: 16.883333206176758px;"> the feast of St. Sylvester, a fourth-century pope.</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> It is a time for a large meal traditionally with ones family, but also besides eating it is a time to party with family and friends. Lentils are traditionally eaten as part of the meal because they</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> symbolize money and good fortune for the coming year, as the spiced sausage called Zampone to promise a good </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">quality</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> of life for the coming year. </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">After the meal, people often gather in the local piazzas to await the coming of the New Year. At midnight, there are often fireworks displays and the celebrations last well into the night. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">Thankyou to all my wonderful blogging friends for your Christmas greetings and kind words of appreciation. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">May 2013 be a great Blogging Year for readers and writers alike. Please consider if you are interested in Travel, Photography and Books following my other blogs in 2013, as your encouragement helps me keep motivated to continue. <a href="http://lindyloumacbookreviews.blogspot.co.uk/">LindyLouMac's Book Reviews</a>, <a href="http://lindyloumactraveltales.blogspot.co.uk/">Travel Tales</a>, <a href="http://lindyloumacsworldinphotos.blogspot.co.uk/">LindyLouMac's World in Photos.</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting';">It has become something of a </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting';">tradition on News From Italy to</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting';"> leave you with a selection of Italian Christmas music to listen to over the holiday period.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting';">Italian Folk Carol 'O Bambino' sung by Nancy Sinatra. Youmay have also heard this last song referred to by Italians as 'Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting';">Although the next song is not strictly Italian I am including it as the words and video share a love of Italy. ' The Italian Christmas Song' by American Legacy Jazz Band.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting';">My next choice is a version of 'Jingle Bell Rock' sung in Italian with the refrain in English. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Lucida Handwriting;">I hope you found something to your taste here and I look forward to catching up with you all in 2013. Until then I share these two vintage cards with you all to convey Christmas Blessings.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">The Olive Harvest that wasn't. In Italy there is a saying about the harvest, one year good one year bad. Judging by our olives this year and the fact that we had a bumper harvest last year this proved true. A few weeks ago having had a swift estimate of our crop and deciding we would struggle to reach our mills minimum requirement of at least 200 kilos, we sadly decided not to bother. This is not such a dreadful decision as thanks to our abundant harvest last year we still have plenty of oil left for our own purposes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">A side effect of the weather this year seems to be that many of the olives have turned black much earlier this year and as we had a reasonable crop on a few of our younger trees we decided to harvest these for putting in brine and using for cooking purposes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">So our work in the Olive Grove this year was on the advice of our neighbours a really good pruning of the trees.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">If you are new to reading this blog since our last harvest and are disappointed not to be able to read all about our experiences, I can only apologise and direct you back to the previous posts on the subject of which over the years there have been quite a few.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">I have posted an album of photos of the Olives, Olive Trees and our Pruning work on Google Plus for those that are interested in seeing a few more photos. The photos shared here are also taken from this album.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/102295358223419345497/albums/5820755101734953569">Olive Harvest 2012 </a></span><br />
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<a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/olive-harvest-october-2009.html"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Olive Harvest 2009 - Part One</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/olive-harvestche-disastro-what-disaster.html">Olive Harvest 2010 - Che Disastro!</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/olive-oil.html">Our Olive Oil 2010</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/after-five-days-of-picking-by-hand-with.html">Olive Harvest 2011 - All Done</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/olive-harvest-2011-picking.html">Olive Harvest 2011 - Picking</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://milling%20-%20from%20olive%20to%20oil/">Olive Harvest 2011</a></span><br />
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LindyLouMachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282788551449445133noreply@blogger.com29Province of Viterbo, Italy42.400242 11.889172142.025027 11.2574581 42.775456999999996 12.5208861tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764019643275791818.post-62513824541461560152012-12-05T17:49:00.001+01:002012-12-05T17:49:18.154+01:00Olive to Oil<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today I am sharing with you again a post from last year about the milling process for Olive Oil as I have lots of new followers that have expressed an interest both here on the blog and on my FB page. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/NewsFromItaly">News From Italy</a>, since I last wrote about the process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We have harvested our own olives every year since we moved to Italy, although this year was rather different and that will be the subject of my next post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /> <img height="300" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6240/6345121814_759a0b4018_m.jpg" width="400" /><br />Once we had decided that five days picking was more than enough, certainly in one stretch, the next task was to get the olives to the mill. A good job we did stop when we did as we only just got them all in the X-Trail and the Smart Car would really have not been much help would it! If you have not yet read my post on our picking and would like to do so just click on this link. <a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.com/2011/11/olive-harvest-2011-picking.html" style="color: #285256; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Olive Harvest 2011 – Picking</a><br />Loaded and ready to go!<br /><img height="300" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6237/6357892547_00142031a5_z.jpg" width="400" /><br />Off we then went on a short drive to the Oleificio in Montefiascone, where they were expecting us. We had arranged to arrive with our crop sometime on the Tuesday morning when we we would be given a more precise appointment for our milling.<br /><img height="300" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6106/6358723325_c07035c91f_z.jpg" width="400" /><br />Arriving at the mill olives are unloaded into a large crate.<br /><img height="400" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7164/6404713559_2b8074daaf_z.jpg" width="400" /><br />Our crate is the one in the top left hand picture and when we left on Tuesday it had been moved into the warehouse area for storage, photo top right. Before leaving we confirmed in the office that our slot for milling would be the next day, Wednesday 16th November verso (towards)2pm.<br /><img height="400" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/6406685955_8a7bb4b4bc_z.jpg" width="400" /><br />Having been through this process before we warned my sister that we were probably in for a very long afternoon at the mill. Fortunately she did not seem to mind, although she did take her book as I suggested she never actually got to read it, as she found the whole process interesting, well I she seemed to! We arrived at the appointed time and our arrival was acknowledged immediately, however it was probably half an hour later when someone decided to tell us that due to a breakdown during the night, they were running a couple of hours behind, so why not go off somewhere else for awhile. We took the advice and went off to the station to check the times for my sister’s train to Roma the next morning, we were unable to buy her ticket though as the Tabac (where they sell train tickets) was of course closed for the afternoon as were most of the local shops. There is a new branch of Todis in Montefiascone opened on 26th October which is unusually ‘orario continuato’ continuous opening with no afternoon closure, so we did a little food shopping before returning to the mill for our rescheduled appointment.<br />On our return we located our crate, now outside, see the bottom row in the mosaic above, just before 4pm our turn arrived. The crate was weighed we were given our ticket, for use later to pay for the milling process which is calculated by the amount of oil produced, then the olives were loaded into the hopper and the process began. The olives would appear as olive oil in approx two hours time, I followed the process as best I could in these photos. The first mosaic of photos show the olives being weighed, before being tipped into the hopper, the leaves are then separated from the olives by being blown and deposited in the basket outside, see bottom left of picture, before the olives are sent off into the milling machinery.<br /><img height="400" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6411413469_3aae32f4eb_z.jpg" width="400" /><br />As mentioned above the leaves have been separated as the olives make their way into this first stage of the milling process where they are washed and ground.<br /><img height="400" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6411487533_b956036723_z.jpg" width="400" /><br />In the next stage of the process the pulp is transferred into tanks, there are six in all and they are used in rotation, our olive pulp was designated to tank number two.<br /><img height="400" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7008/6412214797_011b909b63_z.jpg" width="400" /><br />An impressive looking beast here are some close ups of the procedure, notice how red the pulp is going down the tube in the first photo, top left! The operative kindly opened the lid so that I could photograph the pulp entering the chamber.<br /><img height="400" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7028/6412268629_59b61ef812_z.jpg" width="400" /><br />While we waited for the oil, I will took a few photos around the mill, including where the waste product from the procedure is transferred to. It appears to lose its colour looking at the last photo ‘ stuff’ which had been around for awhile maybe used as a compost product but this is just a guess.<br /><img height="400" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/6412322403_c33ca7d35e_z.jpg" width="400" /><br />The setting sun, Montefiascone Duomo and general environs of the mill.<br /><img height="400" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7159/6412399731_df542a4b99_z.jpg" width="400" /><br />The green lights indicate that the pulp is ready for the next stage and the chamber is emptied as it passes through the next batch of machinery to the final stages, the waste product is removed and ends up where I showed you in a previous collage. It gets exciting as the procedure enters the final stages as you wait for your very own olive oil to appear.<br /><img height="400" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6412491011_4b980edefa_z.jpg" width="400" /><br />Which it finally does and to our delight the operatives told us that not only was our oil of a very good quality, but in fact even better it was excellent, they knew this because of the transparency, just take a look at the large photo!<br /><img height="400" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7145/6412540487_be0a1111c2_z.jpg" width="400" /><br />We are very pleased with the end result and I hope you have enjoyed my very basic description of the process, any mistakes are my own!<br /><img height="300" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6113/6352888418_0b29224f8d_z.jpg" width="400" /><br />For those of you that are new to this blog and may be interested in the previous Olive Harvest posts, here are the links.<br /><a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.com/2009/11/olive-harvest-october-2009.html" style="color: #285256; text-decoration: initial;">Olive Harvest - Phase One – 2009</a><br /><a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.com/2009/11/olive-harvest-phase-two.html" style="color: #285256; text-decoration: initial;">Olive Harvest - Phase Two - 2009</a><br /><a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.com/2010/11/olive-harvestche-disastro-what-disaster.html" style="color: #285256; text-decoration: initial;">Olive Harvest 2010 - Che Disastro!</a><a href="http://lindyloumactraveltales.blogspot.com/" style="color: #285256; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Travel Tales</a><br /><a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.com/2010/11/olive-oil.html" style="color: #285256; text-decoration: initial;">Olive Oil 2010</a><br />and the prequel to this post <a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.com/2011/11/olive-harvest-2011-picking.html" style="color: #285256; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Olive Harvest 2011 - Picking</a><br />Lots more photos can be viewed in in My Flickr Albums in the collection entitled <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mctumble/collections/72157622794778559/" style="color: #285256; text-decoration: initial;">Olives and Olive Oil</a>.<br /><img alt="Copyright" height="15" src="http://l.yimg.com/g/images/icon_all_rights.png" width="15" /> All rights reserved by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mctumble/" style="color: #285256; text-decoration: initial;">LindyLouMac Photo Collection</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><strong style="line-height: 23px;">First Sentences:</strong><span style="line-height: 23px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 23px;">Welcome to one of the oldest cities in the Western world - Naples, Italy. This insider's guide is a </span><span style="line-height: 23px;">compilation</span><span style="line-height: 23px;"> of three years </span><span style="line-height: 23px;">researching</span><span style="line-height: 23px;"> and travelling throughout the Campania region and a little beyond.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 19px;"><span style="line-height: 23px; text-align: center;">There is so much more within the pages of this travel guide to Naples than you would expect as it has a </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">personal feel to it. I suspect that this is because much of the information contained within the pages, of unusual tours and hidden nooks of Naples appeared originally on the authors blog. The author is an American Naval wife and freelance travel writer who during a three year posting to Naples explored the city and its environs writing about it on <a href="http://theespressobreak.blogspot.it/" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: initial;">The Espresso Break</a> which led to this book.</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 19px;">This guidebook is perfect for the armchair traveller, or to tuck in your bag on your trip to Naples whether you are a first time visitor or have been there many times before. I think you might find some hidden nooks that you did not know existed! I also agree with the author's own suggestion that this book makes an excellent introduction to the newly arrived ex-pat living in Naples as many of the articles will help one understand the cultural differences. Besides ideas for the tourist Barbara Zaragoza covers topics as diverse as food, shopping and the problems of rubbish and racism. It would also not have been complete without the section on <span style="background-color: white;">Neapolitan espresso and its history, which gives the book its title. As well as the obvious sights, Vesuvius, Pompei and Herculaneum there are many other places covered. Which in my opinion means you cannot fail to find something of interest, with her tour ideas based on different themes, such as Ancient Rome, Grottoes or Odious Women. This guide will certainly be travelling with us on any future trips to Naples.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: #444444;">In conclusion an unusual travel guide for those of us that like to explore off the beaten track as well as the more obvious places. I personally feel that you learn a lot more about a place and its culture if you turn off the well beaten pathways and explore the nooks and crannies.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 19px;">Author Profile</span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444;">Barbara Zaragoza was raised in a small city outside of San Francisco. At eighteen she went to Washington D.C. where she studied International Relations at The American University while interning at Capitol Hill. During that time, she also did a study abroad in Poland right when Communism was collapsing (1989-1990), which led her to go to Prague and work for the Institute of International Relations while Czechoslovakia was splitting. She then went on to do a graduate degree in Russian and East European Studies at Stanford University., followed by a Master’s degree at Harvard University with a focus on Polish contemporary history. </span><span style="color: #444444;">During those same years, she fell in love and married a submariner with whom she has three daughters. Her husband left submarines for a Navy medical career that has included two deployments (Afghanistan and GITMO). She has travelled </span><span style="color: #444444;">to five continents and has studied somewhere around seven languages. </span><span style="color: #444444;">In 2007 she moved to Naples, Italy for three years in 2007. The family now live in San Diego, California, which they consider to be home. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://barbarazaragozaauthor.com/" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: initial;">Author's Official Website</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Barbara-Zaragoza/e/B007OC6AQU" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: initial;">Barbara Zaragoza - Amazon Profile</a> <a href="http://www.naplesnapoliguide.com/" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: initial;">Naples Guide</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #d52a33; line-height: normal;">I have posted this book review on </span><a href="http://lindyloumacbookreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-espresso-break-by-barbara-zaragoza.html" style="line-height: normal;">LindyLouMac's Book Reviews</a><span style="color: #d52a33; line-height: normal;"> but decided it should be shared here as well to reach a wider audience.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d52a33;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Do let me know, what you think of this idea? Last year there was interest in the reviews I posted for the <a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/italy-in-books-reading-challenge.html">Italy in Books 2011 Reading Challenge</a>. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Mushrooms, Toadstools, Fungi, Funghi, whatever you know them as, many varieties are poisonous and in Italy it is advisable to take them to your local Health authority for identification before even considering eating them. In fact local authorities often run courses on identifying them, so surely it is better to be safe than sorry.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">I read a newspaper article on line recently which had the following to say: </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 19.983333587646484px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">'On October 22 an entire family (father, mother and daughter) died after eating poisonous mushrooms. In Italy there are between 600 and 1,300 cases every year of poisoning.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19.983333587646484px;">The full article can be read by following the link. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">In the last few weeks there have been an abundance of many different varieties to be found in our garden, some are weird and wonderful, others extremely ugly, or even a little rude! I will share the photos here with you but no names as I do not want to be presumptuous enough to consider that I might be able to identify them correctly! </span></span><br />
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<br />LindyLouMachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282788551449445133noreply@blogger.com50 Province of Viterbo, Italy42.400242 11.889172141.648966 10.625744599999999 43.151517999999996 13.1525996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764019643275791818.post-78064096776381554812012-11-12T11:01:00.000+01:002012-11-12T11:01:29.385+01:00San Martino - November 11th<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Yesterday was San Martino and I completely forgot about it, I suspect because our spell of mild and sunny weather came to an end this weekend. We had thunderstorms and torrential rain all day long, definitely a good day for curling up by the fire with a good book. I thought that those of you that are new to reading News From Italy since I last wrote about this date may be interested in some background to San Martino.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">However first I have not forgotten either that November 11 is also<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day">Remembrance Day</a> but here in Italy servicemen who died for the nation are remembered on 4 November, when the ceasefire that followed the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_of_Villa_Giusti">Armistice of Villa Giusti</a></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"> in 1918 began. Since 1977, this day has not been a public holiday and nowadays many services are held on the first Sunday of November.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">November 11th is the official feast day for San Martino - Saint Martin whom I have discovered was born in a Roman province in what is now Hungary, a Roman citizen whose father was an army officer and himself became one, later giving it up to become a monk. He is the patron saint of soldiers and wine-makers!<br />Historically the story goes that while he was riding at the gates of the city of Amiens with his soldiers, he met a poor, freezing beggar, cut his own military cloak in half and shared it with him. That same night he dreamt of Jesus wearing the half-cloak he had given to the poor man and thanking him for his compassionate gesture. It is also said that at the moment he shared his cloak, the sun came out and that is why in Italy, a period of sunny, warm weather with clear skies and mild temperatures of around 21C/70F, occurring during early November is called Estate di San Martino. It seems we must have enjoyed our St Martin's summer last week then!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">I have included the links to my previous posts for those of you that may be interested. <a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.it/2011/11/san-martino-st-martins-day-november.html">San Martino November 11th 2011</a>, <a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.it/2010/11/san-martinonovember-11th.html">San Martino November 11th 2010</a>, <a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.it/2009/11/indian-summer.html">Indian Summer 2009</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: start;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">In my last post I announced that News From Italy has been accepted by <a href="http://www.expatsblog.com/blogs/851/news-from-italy" style="text-decoration: initial;">Expatblogs.com</a> as a contender for one of their awards. </span><br style="line-height: 18px;" /><span style="line-height: 18px;">Thanks lovely followers for the tremendous support you have given me, by leaving such wonderful comments at </span></span><a href="http://www.expatsblog.com/blogs/851/news-from-italy" style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: initial;">Expatblogs.com</a><span style="line-height: 18px;"> in support of News From Italy,</span></span><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I am so touched by them</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have also shared the photo below on my photography blog today, <a href="http://lindyloumacsworldinphotos.blogspot.it/2012/11/sweet-chestnuts.html">LindyLouMac's World in Photographs</a> but I know that not all of you have time to call by there very often, so sharing here as well.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">November 1st is a public holiday in Italy for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">All Saints Day</a> where it is known as Tutti i Santi Ognissnati. All Saints Day is the Catholic holiday, commemorating the Saint Martyrs and the following day is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Souls'_Day" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">All Souls Day</a>, which is set aside to honour loved ones who are deceased. Italians celebrate the two days together and traditionally they visit the graves of their loved ones and leave some flowers normally chrysanthemums.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently we had the pleasure of enjoying a lunch cooked for us by the wonderful Simona from <a href="http://www.sagraincasa.it/">Sagraincasa</a> at her lovely home in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allerona">Allerona</a>. We met up with her in the village centre and whilst we were waiting had a few minutes to have a quick look round and take a few photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Our party consisted of Australians, British and Italians, we had all been very kindly invited to lunch by our friend K who had got to know Simona via his daughter Cathy, also our friend and a fellow blogger. You will find links to her blogs at the end of this post.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before I share the photos of our private visit to Simona's home to sample the delights of her cooking I am sharing some information from her blog, <a href="http://www.sagraincasa.it/">Sagraincasa</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly all about <a href="http://www.sagraincasa.it/">Sagraincasa</a> in her own words:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">'My name is Simona and I am originally a Roman, I moved to Umbria, near Orvieto 11 years ago. Umbria, the green heart of Italy is also the heart of the slow food movement, now spreading worldwide. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the region where wine and good food are an integral part of daily living and this is definitely the right place for me. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">My relationship with local producers of like mind have enabled me to nourish and nurture friends and family alike with delicious local cooking. This is now an experience you too can enjoy through, </span><a href="http://www.sagraincasa.it/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Sagraincasa</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Passion for good food, as well as long hours spent in my vegetable patch, olive grove and vineyard, are some of the reasons that inspired this unique blog, </span><a href="http://www.sagraincasa.it/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sagraincasa</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wants to be an inspiration for you.' </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Secondly </span><a href="http://www.sagraincasa.it/?page_id=1297" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">Cooking classes - Link</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> will tell you more about her</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> classes for 2-9 people at her farm house in Allerona, a three hour lesson followed with a dinner at the end that the class has prepared. Classes are also available elsewhere for larger numbers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Simon founded <a href="http://www.sagraincasa.it/">Sagraincasa</a>, (food feast in your home) because she wanted to share her passion for quality, regional Italian cooking and wines. It was so obvious from the time we spent with her just how passionate she is about traditional recipes and cooking with local produce. We had a delicious meal, lovely wine and a good time with friends old and new as I believe the photos I share with you here will show. Just click on the photo for an enlarged view.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This species, like other bee-eaters, is a richly-coloured, slender bird. It has brown and yellow upper parts, whilst the wings are green and the beak is black. It can reach a length of 27–29 cm (10.6–11.4 in), including the two elongated central tail feathers. Sexes are alike.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a bird which breeds in open country in warmer climates. Just as the name suggests, bee-eaters predominantly eat insects, especially bees,wasps and hornets which are caught in the air by sorties from an open perch. Before eating its meal, a European Bee-eater removes the sting by repeatedly hitting the insect on a hard surface. It eats some 250 bees daily. Lizards and frogs are also taken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">These bee-eaters are gregarious, nesting colonially in sandy banks, preferably near river shores, usually at the beginning of May. They make a relatively long tunnel in which the 5 to 8, spherical white eggs are laid around the beginning of June. Both the male and the female take care of the eggs, which are brooded for about 3 weeks. These birds also feed and roost communally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This year saw an increase in the number of Bee-eaters we had visit our garden, one day in August we counted twenty in the flock that spent an hour or so feeding in the vicinity of our house. There must have been lots of bees or wasps in the roof tiles, although we have never had a problem, maybe thanks to the Bee-eaters. It was fascinating to watch them swooping and diving for their prey, I was just disappointed that I was unable to catch any action shots, from time to time they perched for a rest and I was able to get the photos I am sharing here with you today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For further information and better photographs of the species in general visit <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee-eater">Wikipedia - Bee-eater</a> and for the type we have in our garden. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Bee-eater">Wikipedia - European Bee-eater</a></span><br />
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<br />LindyLouMachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282788551449445133noreply@blogger.com4001100 Province of Viterbo, Italy42.4148468 12.117540442.2272848 11.8016834 42.6024088 12.433397399999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764019643275791818.post-33850431620603412762012-09-05T12:41:00.000+02:002012-09-05T12:41:48.885+02:00Last of the Summer Fun<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is early September, the busy </span>schedule of festas and fieras has calmed down as<span style="font-family: inherit;"> the </span>Italians<span style="font-family: inherit;"> have returned to work and the children are </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">preparing for the new school term which starts next week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are still three outstanding occasions that I have not had an opportunity to feature yet this year. As they have all featured before I will group them altogether in this post. For those that are interested in fuller accounts, maybe the newer followers amongst you who have not heard about these events</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> before, I will include links back to my previous posts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Firstly the 28th and 29th of July is when Marta celebrates its Saints Day. On the evening of the 28th there is the 'Santa Marta Processione con le barche - Santa Marta Procession with boats'. The celebrations start with a simultaneous lake and street procession along the streets of Marta culminating with a service and blessing. The following day is a local bank holiday with a market during the day and to round the festivities off a grand firework display at 11pm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My Flickr Album from this year <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mctumble/sets/72157630807729980/">Santa Marta Processione</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The link will take you to my post from last year <a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.it/2011/08/santa-marta-processione-con-le-barche.html">Santa Marta 2011</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The following evening I did not take my camera to the Firework Display but I am able to share those of my friend the <a href="http://www.meteomarta.altervista.org/portale/">Marta Weatherman</a>. He recorded the evening in four parts, I have just posted the first part here, please visit his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqJOUczINB4&feature=relmfu">YouTube</a> channel to view the rest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">My photos can also be viewed in My Flickr.com Album </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mctumble/sets/72157630929877798/with/7724642088/" style="line-height: 22px;">Festa del Pescatore</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You can read more about this event by visiting my previous posts. <a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.it/2009/08/festa-del-pescatore.html">Festa del Pescatore 2009</a> and <a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.it/2010/08/marta-festa-del-pescatore.html">Festa del Pescatore 2010</a></span>
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Finally during the first two weeks of August Montefiascone celebrated the 54th Fiera del Vino<br />
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You can read more about this event and its fascinating history by visiting my previous posts. <a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.it/2010/08/montefiascone-fiera-del-vino-2010.html">Montefiascone Fiera del Vino 2010</a> <a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.it/2011/09/montefiascone-fiera-del-vino-2011.html">Montefiascone Fiera del Vino 2011</a><br />
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Summer is over for another year but hopefully we will now have a long Autumn with mild and sunny weather. We can now look forward to attending some seasonal festas, mushrooms, chestnuts, wine and olives before the end of the year.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One recent afternoon I spent some time happily chasing </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallowtail_butterfly" style="font-family: inherit;">Swallowtail Butterflies</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> amongst the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa" style="font-family: inherit;">Lucerne</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> in our garden trying to get some photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I did not manage to get any really good close up shots as they did not stay still long enough for the time it takes me to get organised, therefore each photo seems to be missing a piece of butterfly! However I did manage to capture a series of photographs that I felt were worth sharing with you here today.</span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Do remember that you should be able to enlarge the photos just by clicking on them, or if this does not work you can do so via My Flickr.com album. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mctumble/sets/72157631256444478/with/7865402650/">Swallowtails in the Lucerne</a> which contains the full set of photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This post today is instead of my end of the month </span><a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.it/2012/07/our-garden-in-june-and-july-il-nostro.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Our Garden</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> post as due to the drought conditions we have had this summer I have not taken as many photos as normal, certainly nothing showing </span>much<span style="font-family: inherit;"> produce, a few fruit and nut close ups, plus some colourful flower macros, but no general views. When I looked back at last year's post I was surprised that we thought the garden was not doing well, except for the fruit! This year even the fruit has not been abundant, take a look at this old post if you are curious </span><a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.it/2011/08/our-garden-in-august-il-nostro-giardino.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Our Garden in August 2011</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you really want to see a few photos from the garden this month please visit the following link on </span>Flickr<span style="font-family: inherit;">.com. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mctumble/sets/72157631045153052/with/7768031902/">Our Garden in August 2012</a></span><br />
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With cracks in the earth like this one, it is no surprise that nothing much is growing!<br />
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As I write this post we have just hit the three months without rain mark, then this afternoon the 26th of August we thought we were going to get a storm, but after just ten minutes of heavy rain the skies cleared and the sun is out again. Hardly enough to settle the dust!<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Update: 30th of August - Our local weather forecast says this will be the last day of the intense heat of summer, with an unsettled weekend ahead. I am off to make the most of it and hunt some more butterflies, have a good weekend everyone.</span>LindyLouMachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282788551449445133noreply@blogger.com45Province of Viterbo, Italy42.400242 11.889172142.025027 11.2574581 42.775456999999996 12.5208861tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764019643275791818.post-24050213944543031682012-08-27T09:33:00.000+02:002012-08-27T09:33:01.328+02:00Dragon Boat Marta First Festival 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year for the first time in recent history a Dragon Boat Racing Competition was held in Marta during the <a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.it/2012/08/festa-del-villano-2012-marta.html">Festa del Villano</a>. The races were held on the Sunday and as we had been watching the Marta team training on the lake we thought it would be interesting to go along and watch. I am glad we did as it was fun and I hope it will become another annual event in Marta's social calender. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="background-color: #f6f6f6;">... </span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;">One Sunday in the summer of 2011, the village of Marta, on the shores of Lake Bolsena, was shaken by the distant sound of drums and rhythmic ... </span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;">He was a familiar sound, known ... </span><span class="goog-text-highlight" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(153, 153, 170) 2px 2px 4px; background-color: white; box-shadow: rgb(153, 153, 170) 2px 2px 4px; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">It evokes memories ... </span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;">For twenty years he did not feel ... </span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;">In the 'air we breathe lakeside intense curiosity ... </span><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6;">Who recalls the memory ...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The "DRAGON MARTA" comes from 'idea and the dream of a group of youths in the country, to resume the discipline of the Dragon Boat Martha and stopped twenty years ago, ready and willing to point out the history and business of the crews of the previous small medieval village, "Tomao" and "Amalasunta", legendary successes, regional, national and global, which testifies to the participation and success in the Championship Final of the World Dragon Boat Hono Kong in 1991.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To date the crew, male and female, is made both to young talent that the old guards, combining the strength and enthusiasm of youth and 'experience during the past battles, a mix to optimize efforts and work of the group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a 'summer of intense training and demonstration outputs, the group comes out, he enrolled as a group of sports' Cultural Association "Marta without borders" in order to concentrate forces in the country of Marta, you pass to' FIDB (Federation Italian Dragon Boat) and participates in the first competitive event, the two days of the Roman "1st Rome International Dragon Boat Festival", now getting the 3 rd place in the race of 2000 meters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2012 promises a year of intense competitive activity for the crew "Marta Dragon" as evidenced by the schedule of 'FIDB and the return of Marta in the country for the month of July event at the national level for the discipline of the Dragon Boat. .. For more information check out the website: <a href="http://www.martadragon.martasenzaconfini.eu/" style="background-color: white;">Marta Dragon Website</a><span style="background-color: white;">,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dragon Boat Racing is a popular sport all over the world, the boat is <span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">12.66 meters long and 1.06 meters wide with its head and tail in the shape of a dragon. These boats are driven by 20 athletes to the rhythm from the drummer, who use paddles with a length of 1.05 m and 1.30 ft wide, while the helmsman at the stern of the boat takes the direction with an oar about 3 meters long. </span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The origins of the sport date back 2000 years ago when according to legend, the Chinese poet and statesman Qu Yuan threw himself 'in the river Mi-Lo a desperate act to protest against the harassment of which he was subjected his people by the government at that time. Fishermen went on boats to search for the body of Qu Yuan forcefully slamming the waters with the oars to drive away the fish. This gave birth to a tradition that remembers that day and is celebrated all over the East on the fifth day of the fifth moon. Since then it has grown with the forming many different federations all over the world. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">Another weekend of simple but enjoyable entertainment that the Italians do so well. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">On the 14th and 15th of July Marta celebrated the twelfth Festa del Villano, the workers of the land, with food, gastronomic stands and music. There was also a market along the lake promenade and on the Sunday for the first time this year, Dragon Boat Racing, which I will feature in my next post.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This event is organised by the festival committee of the major Marta festa of the Madonna del Monte that is held on May 14th every year and has been featured on News From Italy in the past. If you missed the post this year it can be found <a href="http://lindyloumac.blogspot.it/2012/06/festa-della-madonna-del-monte-may-14th.html">here</a> or <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mctumble/sets/72157630058168257/with/7182954349/">My Flickr Album</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The food was the highlight of the evening and was wholesome peasant fare of Bruschette miste, pasta, beans with pork fat rinds, pork steaks and chips with to finish<span style="background-color: white;"> for a dessert some Cannaiola (a local sweet red dessert wine) and ciambelline (a sort of biscuit). </span><span style="background-color: white;">This was maybe not ones idea of a fine dining supper but it was certainly tasty and the evening was good fun.</span></span></div>
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It was very hot over the weekend maybe even the hottest of the summer season as our thermometer in the shade in the garden reached 42C on Sunday afternoon with the minimum temperature overnight on Saturday night not having dropped below 25C. With these temperatures and the exceedingly dry conditions it was no real surprise to see yet another fire burning locally yesterday afternoon. These photos were taken from our terrace of the fire, the helicopter dropping the water and going down to the luckily nearby Lago di Bolsena to collect the water with which to do so.<br />
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Sadly fires like this one have been a common site around the region and in fact all over Italy this summer.LindyLouMachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282788551449445133noreply@blogger.com29 Province of Viterbo, Italy42.400242 11.889172141.65013 10.625744599999999 43.150354 13.1525996