Italian football

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | As Italia get got to the pitch inwards their crucial Group eastward World Cup fit , Italia is asset its breath for some other reason. Later today the state volition acquire the side past times side installment of the football game corruption scandal which has gripped the province for the final month. Centred roughly Italy's most successful social club , Juventus , this investigation could come across elevation players as well as clubs penalised for match-fixing , referee-planting , illegal betting as well as who knows what else.

Our sibling websites , Football inwards Italy as well as Football inwards Rome , get got long maintained that something was amiss inwards the globe of Serie A. Indeed , nearly whatever Italian would get got told you lot their suspicions of Juventus (typical chant from opposition fans: 'Ladri , ladri' - thieves , thieves). But naive English linguistic communication friends laughed at this 'paranoia'. Now nosotros know it was likely all true. And exclusively the tip of the iceberg. We've seen every bit good many suspect goals as well as refereeing errors alongside our ain eyes to endure surprised , whatever emerges. We're simply keeping our fingers crossed for 's favourite team.

A proficient BBC resume of the scandal as well as hence far: Shamed Italian clubs to endure named

UPDATE: Now nosotros know: Serie Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 quartet volition stand upwards trial . Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 really thorough investigation could - if whatever of the allegations are truthful - convey downwardly the entire construction of Italian football. And utilisation extra insoluble problems - if the matches were fixed , shouldn't nosotros all endure entitled to refunds of our flavor ticket prices , of trade , of tv set fees as well as and hence on? An impossible situation. And the tentacles doubtless spread into other areas of Italian sport , concern as well as politics. We suspect that , every bit inwards other corruption cases , a discreet business volition endure drawn nether the affair later a handful of scapegoats get got been penalised. We exclusively wishing our social club wasn't laid to endure 1 of the scapegoats.

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Sicily underwater volcano

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | Underwater volcano institute past times Italy (BBC News)

As if Sicily didn't already aspect upwardly plenty natural risks!

One of Europe's largest volcanoes is likewise an underwater volcano off the coast of Italy: Mount Marsili.
- Italian volcanoes

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JOY FOR ITALY: World Cup victory at last

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After years of heartbreak Italy guide maintain finally won the World Cup! For in i trial , a punishment shootout has gone Italy's way. It may non guide maintain been the nearly fulfilling or artistic agency to win , simply Italy guide maintain earned these celebrations. Fans of Italian football game tin sack right away pass a few hours rejoicing earlier the dwelling household scandal takes over the headlines tomorrow. Congratulations to the whole team for some superb perfomances throughout this tournament.
> BBC World Cup in conclusion fit report
As the Italian anthem echoes approximately the stadium inward Berlin , we're all off to celebrate.

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An Italy move nightmare

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | On the 1 mitt it's reassuring to read nigh other travellers' vacation nightmares ... only if you're a pessimist or a nervous traveller they exclusively add together to your fears.

Read a funny article inwards the Times past times Giles Coren , whose hire-car problems marooned him inwards the staggeringly expensive Hotel Splendido inwards Portofino (no , we've never heard of a repast that expensive inwards Italy either... although it could bring been the cocktails which pushed the cost up).
>Hotel Splendido: "Two bowls of pasta , a pizza together with a bottle of the menage white for a hundred together with 50 quid!"
> More nigh posh Portofino

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Algae scare empties beaches

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | Stretches of Italy's coast well-nigh Rome too along the Italian Riviera well-nigh Genoa convey been shut to bathers inwards the final couplet of weeks afterward an invasion of toxic algae. Traces of poisonous seaweed convey equally good been found inwards the body of body of water off Palermo , inwards Sicily.

The closure of Rome' sec beaches must convey been a blow to local businesses too sunbathing Romans , although the expanse which was shut final calendar week , betwixt Nettuno too Ladispoli , is non a stretch we'd recommend to tourists. The beaches nearest to Rome are non terribly pleasant at the best of times: muddied , crowded too lined amongst ugly too expensive bathing establishments. Far nicer beaches tin live enjoyed to the northward inwards Tuscany too farther to the southward - such equally our favourite , Sperlonga.

If you're planning on a trip to the areas affected , we'd recommend you lot inquire your hotel for the lastest information. And live aware that around of the problems cited inwards the articles below - expensive beaches , jellyfish stings - are perennial.

> The Times: Poison algae too jellyfish movement bathers from the beaches
> The Guardian: Swimming ban hits Italian beaches equally toxic algae bloom
> Ansa.it: Toxic seaweed appears inwards Sicily

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Viva Italy Show London Olympia

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | Another Italian-themed present is taking house inwards London this tumble , at Olympia. The Viva Italia Show runs from 22-24 September 2006. Organised inwards conjunction amongst the Italian Chamber of Commerce for the Britain , the fair is a guide chances for Italian firms in addition to organisations - in addition to Britain ones amongst an Italian topic - to promote in addition to peddle their wares. The brochure promises Italian amusement , cooking , tourist stands in addition to Italian products to sample in addition to buy. And likely lots of people trying to sell you lot belongings inwards Italy. For to a greater extent than information take in the Viva Italia Show website. Maybe we'll run across you lot there.

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Stay inwards a hotel together with grab a cold

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | Frequent travellers similar ourselves volition hold upward depressed past times this tidings article inwards the Guardian: Where the mutual frigidity virus is an uninvited guest. According to the question quoted "people alongside colds tin compass the axe spread the virus to nearly everything they acquit upon , fifty-fifty if they remain for merely 1 night".

Of cast , it's pretty obvious that travelling exposes yous to many novel germs. Not to bring upward insect bites , nutrient prepared inwards unknown circumstances , sunburn , chilly hotels inwards wintertime , high stress levels as well as countless other hazards. But withal nosotros produce it. Hopefully the excitement as well as pleasance of holidaymaking volition strengthen your immune system. Wrap upward warm inwards wintertime (even inwards Italy) as well as beware of contaminated doorknobs.

You won't hold upward besides pop inwards hypochondriac Italy if yous accept the sneezes or a streaming nose. One of our contributors turned upward to operate inwards Italy proud of having made the endeavor despite a slight mutual frigidity (normal as well as praiseworthy inwards workaholic Britain). Every Italian colleague spun away equally fast equally their swivel-chair castors would permit them , as well as ordered the only-slightly-invalid home. This is , afterwards all , a province where every family has a thermometer , blood line per unit of measurement area monitor as well as a closet sum of prescription medications.

We used to express joy at the ludicrous fearfulness Romans had of draughts as well as the cold: never go out the solid alongside moisture hair! unopen every window on a train! ever apparel a scarf roughly your mentum from Oct until spring! (you tin compass the axe become for 6 months without seeing a Roman neck). Only therefore nosotros returned to England for wintertime , as well as saw girls out on a snowy nighttime alongside bare mini-skirted legs turning blueish , as well as minus coats , as well as nosotros wondered if the Italians were actually therefore mad. And it does accept to hold upward admitted that their life expectancy is traditionally improve as well as they remain well for yous for longer (WHO statistics for Italy as well as the UK).

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Florence - drowned bronze statue on show

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | Florence. Fished out of the bounding main off Republic of Croatia , where he had lain for around ii K years , the bronze athlete , at in 1 trial known every 2d the Croation Apoxyomenos , has spent 7 years inwards conservation laboratories. Thought to endure a 1st century BC Roman re-create of an before Greek master , the statue volition endure on display inwards the Palazzo Medici Riccardi from 1st Oct 2006 to 30th Jan 2007.
> Minerva Magazine

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Italian MPs on drugs

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | This floor virtually Italian MPs beingness secretly drugs-tested (while having their foreheads 'mopped for sweat') doesn't actually postulate much additional comment:
> Italy MPs 'caught inwards drugs sting' (BBC)
The TV exhibit concerned , Le Iene , is a curious programme which combines irritating pranks , showgirl-presenters cavorting together with political satire. It tin live on establish on a channel belonging to Berlusconi - thence the showgirl chemical cistron together with thence likewise , mayhap , the choice of MPs 'exposed' yesteryear this sting.

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Rome Film Festival 2006

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | Rome has launched its starting fourth dimension International Film Festival , opened past times Nicole Kidman. In previous years at that topographic point bring been diverse modest festivals in addition to seasons (showing films from the Venice cinema festival , for example). Now the metropolis has railroad train itself upwards inward contest to other European cinema festivals amongst a large-scale upshot lasting from today until the 21st October. As good equally cinema showings in addition to premieres , at that topographic point volition live diverse outdoors events in addition to exhibitions , including concerts inward Piazza Augusto Imperatore in addition to a large enshroud inward Piazza del Popolo.
> Rome International Film Festival

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Rome Metro crash & carry security inwards general

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | I was inward Rome concluding calendar week , when a collision on Metro Linea H5N1 killed ane , injured 2 hundred too shocked the city. In the immediate aftermath it emerged that it is mutual practise for hole-and-corner trains to give through cherry lights during the rush hr - provided that they obtain verbal permission from the command room too don't overstep 15km/ph. In this representative ane of the novel - supposedly safer - trains continued correct into the dorsum of or hence other , which was stationary at the Vittorio Emanuele stop.

Rome's reaction was typically Roman: right away the urban core was overwhelmed amongst grief - an terminate to festivities at the Film Festival; a city-wide twenty-four hr menses of mourning. At the same fourth dimension exceptional TV shows offered countless talking heads recounting the crash too denouncing security standards.

Outrage was understandably the lodge of the day. Few tin accept been unaware of the risky procedures used underground. H5N1 duet of years agone , commuting on that same stretch of rails , I became aware of my prepare hesitating , hence passing through a cherry lite every bit nosotros approached a station. I knew at that spot was a prepare right away ahead. My fears were non realised , but from hence on I avoided the terminate carriages.

Sadly - too non merely inward Italy - it is slowly to endure wise afterwards the event. Trains accept patently been passing through cherry lights for years , too questions are exclusively raised afterwards an accident has happened. I reflected on this a duet of days afterwards the crash , every bit I took a populace bus service from Rome to Ciampino Airport. While navigating hellish rush-hour traffic on the Via Appia Nuova , ane of Rome's primary thoroughfares , the double-decker driver picked upwardly his στοιχείο too proceeded to brand a telephone phone telephone , spell driving amongst ane hand. Imagine the outrage that would follow an accident occasioned past times such irresponsibility. But of cast , until such an accident happens , it's unlikely anyone volition care.

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Budget ski breaks - Dolomites omnibus service

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | Enterprising budget bus operators Terravision convey started novel Italian drome services for the ski season. The routes are worth investigating if you're planning a inexpensive wintertime trip to the Dolomites via budget airports. Keen walkers volition promise that the motorcoach services , which are due to move Dec - Apr , may afterwards endure extended to the summertime for the hiking season. Online prices are €12 one-way together with €22 return.

A novel weekend transfer service connects Milan Bergamo Airport , Brescia Airport , Bolzano , Ortisei , St Cristina together with Selva inward the Val Gardena. There is currently 1 service on Fridays , together with 3 on Saturdays together with Sundays.

A minute road runs from Venice Treviso Airport to Cortina d'Ampezzo together with Dobbiaco. One motorcoach runs on Fridays , together with ii on Saturdays together with Sundays.

> Skiing inward the Dolomites
> Terravision timetables together with motorcoach tickets

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An authentic Rome experience

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | Yesterday's Dominicus Times features an article entitled The Real Rome , inwards which "Stanley Stewart picks 20 ingredients for a to a greater extent than authentic weekend inwards the Eternal City". His listing of recommended sights avoids the obvious attractions in addition to we'd concord amongst most of them equally existence practiced things to do. His listing is yet a tourist listing , of course. After reading the article , nosotros set our heads together to come upwardly up amongst our ideas for an 'authentic' weekend inwards Rome. Forget the tourist stuff: if yous desire to experience the Rome of modern-day Romans , hither are our suggestions:

1. Watch the globe acquire by
Sit at an outdoors cafe tabular array in addition to sentry the eventide passeggiata equally Romans of all ages parade along the lanes of their neighbourhood or of the urban marrow middle , greeting acquaintances , appraising in addition to existence appraised. Good cardinal spots are Trastevere in addition to the Centro Storico (try the lanes betwixt Campo de' Fiori in addition to Piazza Navona).

2. Eat alla Romana
Enjoy a existent Roman repast at a humble , family-run trattoria where the proprietor treats the diners similar friends (they in all likelihood consume at that topographic point every nighttime , after all) in addition to the written carte du jour is commonly overlooked - instead consume your host's recommendations in addition to tuck into a generous pasta dish incorporating fresh local ingredients.
> Restaurants inwards Rome

3. Go out for a pizza
The side past times side twenty-four hours , acquire for the pizza option: a proper Roman pizza preceded past times bruschetta in addition to accompanied alone past times a bottle of beer or drinking glass of water. If possible , infiltrate a grouping of immature Romans: 'going out for a pizza' commonly involves a large convivial grouping of chums in addition to a packed pizzeria inwards some unlikely place exterior the urban marrow middle , inwards a globe of inexpensive , superb nutrient commonly hidden from the tourist.

4. Coffee at Sant'Eustachio
It may hold upwardly listed inwards every paper article in addition to guidebook , but the Caffè Sant'Eustachio actually is a local institution. Get your morning time java hither - but don't endeavour to enquire for an American or English-style brew. Acquire a gustatory modality for existent , potent Italian java in addition to yous may get down to sympathise why they notice other varieties barbaric.

5. Cross the road
Step boldly out onto a road-crossing , correct into the path of speeding cars in addition to taxis. As they jerk to a magical stop , stroll past times amongst your olfactory organ held high in addition to count yourself a existent Roman. (Note: follow this advice at your ain risk).

6. Battle bureaucracy
Attempt a form-filling transaction at a banking venture or constabulary station (some postal service offices are much improved... but exactly endeavour shout out for for stamps). Don't worry if yous cause got to surrender - that's all constituent of the experience.

7. Window-shopping
Window-shopping is a favourite pastime throughout the year. Stroll along a shopping street at snail-pace , pausing to ponder whatever goods that cause got your fancy. Shops oftentimes cause got to a greater extent than goods inwards their windows than on the shelves within , in addition to window-shopping is a ritual enjoyed past times both men in addition to women. This is why Romans habiliment such large thermal coats during their relatively mild winters - they pass thence much of their eventide loitering exterior shops that they demand to wrap upwardly warm. There's enough to await at on Via del Corso but for a tourist-free Roman experience caput to the Via Appia Nuova around Re di Roma subway betwixt half-dozen in addition to 8pm. There is equally good a pop gelateria past times the roundabout where yous tin flaming behave out proposition 8:

8. Eat an ice-cream
But inwards the Roman agency - inwards the early on eventide , non the midday heat. For a city-centre stroll endeavour the minor gelateria halfway downwards Via di Tor Millina , or the famous San Crispino. Or for a serious ice-cream experience , the impressively-named Palazzo del Freddo. (Incidentally , who would cause got catch , when nosotros ready , that fifty-fifty gelaterie would 1 twenty-four hours cause got their ain functional websites?)

9. Show Roman toughness
Hold your house inwards the non-queue of a take-away pizza house or gelateria. While no formal queueing takes house , you'll demand to know who is earlier yous in addition to who behind , in addition to insist when it is your plough (or fifty-fifty earlier , if yous are actually tough). Watch out for elderly ladies: they are the worst at barging in.

10. Ignore the sights.
You tin flaming permit yourself the strange satisfied glance , but if yous desire to experience similar a local yous should usage the tourist sights equally mere landmarks on your routes across town. Take a short-cut across Piazza Navona without pausing past times whatever of the fountains; cutting correct through the Forum in addition to past times the Colosseum on your agency to somewhere else , striding past times the gawping tourists (ok , Romans don't by in addition to large usage the Forum equally a thoroughfare , but it is fun).

11. Roman high-life
Mingle amongst Rome's glitterati at the Teatro dell'Opera. The operas in addition to ballets tin flaming hold upwardly really fine , but equally good fascinating is the interval , when the bar fills amongst elegant companionship creatures posing inwards their finery.

12. Go to a football game match
There is no amend agency to witness the individual of Italian society.
> Football inwards Rome

13. Night life
The immature in addition to intrepid should endeavour out Rome's nighttime fourth dimension pursuits: caput to Testaccio or San Lorenzo in addition to stand upwardly around exterior ramshackle , throbbing venues. Sip some beer if yous want; convey your ain drinks if yous want. Actually entering a bar or nightclub is optional; many participants seem never to acquire around to this. Mind yous , it is difficult when 18 friends , all arriving separately , cause got to regard upwardly in addition to hash out where to acquire next. For a tamer version , endeavour Trastevere. For a to a greater extent than tourist-oriented meat-market caput to Campo de' Fiori.

14. Go to the beach
In the summertime all of Rome heads to the local , rather unappetising seaside (further due south , Sperlonga is much nicer). In the daytime yous sunbathe inwards a paying beach establishment , in addition to inwards the eventide yous party.

15. Lunch out-of-town
Visit Frascati or 1 of the other Castelli Romani towns for a long dejeuner in addition to inexpensive local wine.

That's all nosotros tin flaming mean value of for now. Follow a few of these ideas in addition to you'll get down to experience constituent of this chaotic urban marrow - or for sure sympathise it better. We were tempted to propose that yous witness rush-hour traffic (when policemen cause got to enforce traffic lights) or the packed morning time Metro , but we're non quite that cruel. And other suggestions to brand yous experience Roman (for illustration , never e'er cause got world carry or fifty-fifty larn how it works) powerfulness simply depress the unfortunate tourist.

Good luck - or in bocca al lupo , equally the Romans say.

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Bracciano hits the headlines inwards Cruise marriage ceremony rumours

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | Cruise a Roma per le nozze (Repubblica)
> Rumors narrowing on Lake Bracciano for Cruise-Holmes Italian marriage ceremony (IHT , November 10th)

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Rome tourist card

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | If you're planning a long weekend inwards Rome it mightiness hold out worth considering the tourist board's Roma Pass. This costs €18 for iii days , in addition to includes populace carry , complimentary entry to two museums , in addition to a arrive at of discounts. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 measure 3-day move carte du jour costs €11 , in addition to then past times comparison ticket prices of your chosen museums you lot tin sack operate out whether the Roma Pass volition stand upward for a worthwhile saving for you.
> Roma Pass
> Rome tourist guide

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Florence Christmas Market

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | Mercato di Natale (Italian-language Florence blog)

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Alagna versus La Scala

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | There's a lovely novel chapter inwards the saga of the Tenor as well as the Opera House. First he walked out on the Scala during the minute surgical physical care for of their novel high-profile Aida. Roberto Alagna was inwards a huff afterward or then boos from the audience. Then his employers - understandably , 1 mightiness mean value - defendant him of breach of contract.
Alagna retaliated yesteryear threatening to sue them , claiming they hadn't protected him suitably. Now he has turned upwards exterior the theater to sing a moving cheerio aria.
> Simon Jenkins inwards the Guardian: Get rid of audiences
> Neil Fisher inwards the Times: Relax , Roberto
> The master copy incident , which made a hero of Alagna's jeans-clad understudy , Antonello Palombi:

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Mirror brings wintertime sun

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | We dear this even out from the BBC nearly the decision of a trivial hamlet inwards Italia to capture approximately wintertime sunshine: Italy hamlet gets 'sun mirror' . Through the cunning placement of a large mirror on the hillside , Viganella tin at nowadays right away the sun's rays into the town square. Sunshine too an outdoors social life are crucial to the Italian mode of life , although ane would bring idea the villagers would survive used to their wintertime gloom past times now. Still , 'Progetto Specchio' (Project Mirror) volition doubtless brighten Viganella's winters too every bit giving the hamlet approximately international publicity. The hamlet is inwards the northward of Piemonte , inwards the shadows of the Alps , too the nearest tourist town is Verbania , on Lake Maggiore.

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More Venice go journal

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | Venice March 2007 trip: move journal

New pages next this trip:

> Burano (as pictured on the right)

> Mazzorbo

> Treviso

And , featuring a few of my Carnival photos from February:

> Venice Carnival

Free wireless meshing connectedness inwards Rome

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | Just came across a recent article on the Repubblica intelligence website:
> Internet gratis e senza fili. Roma raddoppia gli hot spot
Even if y'all don't sympathize Italian y'all tin scan downward the article to the listing of gratis wireless cyberspace 'hotspots'. The offset 20 listed should live on activated past times the halt of this calendar month , the others are all the same at the planning stages. Here is the official website of the project:
> Roma Wireless
There is an English linguistic communication version although the translations aren't great. I don't know anyone who's tried to role whatever of the wireless connector sites yet , in addition to then add together a comment hither if y'all hand it a go. volition study dorsum inward a few weeks.

The futurity is upon us! Only a few years agone the cyberspace was an alien concept to many of the Romans nosotros met. Now when they tin tear themselves away from social networking sites they're developing nifty projects similar this.

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