There’s an Australian that has Northern Italians feverish. This year already 23,330 in Lombardy and 4,660 in Milan have been in bed with her. Its this seasons strand of influenza and they have named it l’Australiana (scroll down for the article, the second sentence actually reads “A lot of people are under the...
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     Ok, what are we going to do about all these blogs? There are just too many. I am the first in line in respecting everyones right to express themselves, but come on now. What happened to private diaries? Put a lock on it, keep it under your pillow. Write in pen, doodle in...
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          Red flags waving in all the squares. Orange flags. The hammer and sickle in power. Offices and shops empty of staff who flocked onto the streets shouting full of hope and relief, while brass bands, fusion jazz and Italian folk bands flogged it out in any corner they could find, clapped on by...
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   Good cheap wines. Straight from the vats. Labeless bottles filled and capped in front of you, with good Italian wines: Barbera, Gutturnio, Bonardo, Grignolino, Ortrugo, Verdicchio. Every week or so I walk around the corner, carrying 6 empty bottles in the crate, to the Corte San Fortunato wine dealer. I go into the courtyard...
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Qantas has released an daring new range of cabin crew outfits that are sure to spark furious debate around office water coolers and coffee shops all over Australia. The stunning new designs by Jayson Brunsdonare with daring low cut tops and short hemlines will certainly titilate many of the airlines male customers. Brunsdon has...
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What do East Timor and Switzerland have in common? Culturally, Fiscally and Geographically bugger all, but citizens of both countries have the capacity to confound visitors with the dexterity of their lingual gymnastics. Moreover their capacity to use several ‘official languages’ to get their message across. Switzerland has four national languages (German, French, Italian...
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You’ve gotta hand it to Oprah Winfrey. What a woman. If you’re the type of person who struggles to form you own opinions. If you need somebody else to tell you what to eat, drink, read, watch, wear, when to shit and where to go for a vacation/holiday she’s your gal. Apparently millions do....
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                                                                       Whats happening Faux Brother? What I was going to tell you about, today I walked a lot, across tram tracks along cobbled roads under the sun, and rode the metro underground trains – up and down all the stairs, always coming up from them onto these streets and walking into them like...
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  The clocks have melted down the wall. Time has ceased to be a concept that can easily be grasped without some patient focused thought. The date on that wall is 2 weeks ago. Have I been here that long? If I protested that “No, my watch says its the 30th!”, and everyone else...
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The train Journey between Marrakech to Casablanca should take around 4 hours but things in Morocco tend to take a lot longer than they should. This train isn’t one of the old romantic relics from the 30’s it’s more like a mid 90’s job with bright orange seats that would have looked outdated as...
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