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Italians happy with smoking ban? I don’t think so!

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Google blog searches are not really that good.  If you search for a blog by relevance (the default) and then search by date, some blogs that appear in the first are omitted from the second!  Freaky.  So, say you search for ‘milan italy’.  The first search results page shows blog A, updated 15 minutes ago.  Then click on the search by date (which lists them in reverse order (i.e. last updated showing at the top of the page) and sometimes, blog A is not there!  How can that be?
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Where are you?

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So, blogging!  It’s interesting stuff.  To be honest most blogs are rambles by teenagers or people who think they’re teenagers.  Search through the blogs in Blogspot, Journalspace, etc. and most of the information is banal, to say the least.  You might find some like minded people, but mostly you don’t – or maybe I’m looking in the wrong places – or maybe there aren’t any people who think like me (which wouldn’t really surprise me).

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Passions for Food

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Italians have a passion for food.  But the passion they have is incredible.

On the plus side, most of the food you get here is fresh – made with fresh ingredients (and you can taste it).  In a restaurant, the menu will say if any of the dishes contain frozen food.  Getting a take-away pizza (which we do from time to time, from the restaurant at the back of the flat) means that it is cooked that instant using dough made that day and with produce bought that day.  Everyone here eats pizza from a restaurant.  They have the best (wood or, sometimes, gas fired) pizza ovens and the cost of a pizza – about €6 – €8, sometimes less!  Why cook it yourself?

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New Year’s celebrations

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I love Italy.  I love the Italians.  I think I love the Italian way of life, but it’s more complicated than it seems at first, which is to be expected.  I love the culture.  I love the buildings (and, in particular, many buildings in Milan).  I expected much more red-tape, but, so far, I have been pleasantly surprised.

BUT, don’t go thinking that living in Italy is just like living in the UK, but with better food and more red-tape.  It’s not the same at all.  Of course, I’m sure you can go to certain areas (Tuscany, maybe), where there will be enclaves of British folk living their British way of life, but in a beautiful setting and where, should you wish, you need not worry too much about actually living with the Italians.
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