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Bra Thief Caught in Italy’s Bra

It’s the kind of news journalists probably dream of! Yes, a bra, and knicker, thief has been caught pinching underwear in Italy in the Italian town in Piedmont which, wait for it, calls itself Bra! No, this is no April fool! In Italian, bra, as in the form of undergarment, is reggiseno, so although the event […]

Parachutist Lands in Central Milan

Today, at the crack of dawn, a young parachutist landed in Milan’s central Piazza Duomo. It is believed, though has not been confirmed, that the man leaped off Milan’s Duomo cathedral. After landing, police, who are often present in the piazza, say the man unhitched his parachute and ran to Milan’s underground railway system before […]

Potty Cop Copped

A cannabis plant

This is the kind of story which will probably find its way into the comical Reuters’ Oddly Enough news columns.  An Italian carabinieri policeman was recently arrested for growing cannabis plants – in his police station!  Well, he grew the dope within the apartment he occupied on carabinieri premises.  What a bright button. Around seventeen […]

A Curious Inconsistency

Don’t ask me why my odd little mind ended up considering this, but the fact remains that in Italian the word ‘giorno’ – day, is a ‘male’ word, whereas the word for week – ‘settimana’ is female. I’m sorry, but I don’t understand why this is the case. Italian is one of those languages, that, […]

Chaos in Part of Milan this Morning

When I got to the business school in the Fiera area of Milan this morning, at around 9, I found just about all the classrooms deserted. Oops, I’ve arrived far too early, I thought. I checked the time, and it was indeed around 9, on both my trusty mobiles. Very odd. I had noticed that […]

Sarkozy likes the BBC, possibly!

UPDATE: 14.01.08 – Having now read more of the articles in Il Sole, I can now understand why the paper used the headline saying that ‘State TV without advertising would not work’.  The article basically argues that just about all TV and Internet, is only possible due to advertising.   Whilst this is partially true, I […]

Cv’s, Resumes: mug shot or not, that is the question

Many of my students at the business school where ply my language teaching trade are going through the traumatic ‘looking for an internship’ phase at the moment and one of my charges raised quite an interesting question. He asked ‘Should I include a photo with my CV?’. I’m afraid I was unable to answer this […]

Search lights over Milan

I don’t know if anyone else noticed, but the night sky was lit up by around four searchlights on Sunday and Monday night. When I first saw these beams of light, I thought it was something to do with Ferrari winning the F1 championship, but I don’t know why the lights continued to shine on […]