No news about Michael Jackson? Here there is a video of They Don’t Care About Us.
Sicily. The rustic farmhouse Galassia in Patti Marina, not very far from Messina, in Sicily. I have read about this place in the Guardian Cottages & Villas at Cottageselection.co.uk.
Ibiza, Bali and snorkelling. How are Ibiza, the White Isle and the Rough Guide to this town? And Indonesia, Bali and the island of Gili Trawangan? Maybe it should not be very far from Lombok and the Padang area of Sumatra and, so far as I know, snorkelling may be practiced there.
The Observer. And have you ever been to the bungalows of the Dream Village or have you read this article in the Observer by Iain Stewart? In the first case I haven’t…
Middle East. Have you ever been to the Medina in Saudi Arabia and its fez? Here a photo and another one or a third one about a fez (I hope – and am sure – the author was not wrong!).
– A Brazilian-Italian friar, brother Sidival Fila. And furthermore, the Italian singer Alessandra Celletti. Brazil, Canoa Quebrada, tourism and a blog.
The visit in Noto also includes an image of the San Nicolò Church and a view with some palms. In the very East of Sicily there is also a point of view of Ragusa and completely on the other side of Sicily – Western side near Trapani – a temple in Selinunte, another one in Segesta and salt mills in Mozia. Besides, in Sicily there is always an occasion to see a Madonna and there are also other Sicilian photos, but… another time.
15.08.09 – Competitions. Deadline is Saturday, August 15… Have you already taken part to the Europe-wide photo competition about safety and health among Europe’s citizens? An on-line public vote will follow and, then, there will be a winner and three further prizes assigned by a jury…
31.07.09 – “European” photos. Do you like this photo or this one? The author took part to a photo competition by the PES Group (Party of the European Socialists), which includes the most important European centre-right movements and parties.
You may apply for another photo competition with the deadline fixed for the 31st July. Anyway, you have to be of an age between 11 and 25.
Piana degli Albanesi. Trip Advisor, Stephen Bowdon from Cheshire and Sant’Agata Agriturismo in Piana degli Albanesi, near Palermo. The travel agency Open Sicily and this farmhouse in Piana degli Alabensi for one week off-peak (448 pounds or 560 euros) and peak (504 pounds or 630 euros).
Mediterranean diet and diabetes. Do you follow the Mediterranean diet or do you know anyone who’s diagnosed with type 2 diabetes? And have you read this article in the Reader’s Digest by Janis Graham?
Mediterranean eating. Eating plans and the Mediterranean plan for the Guardian Eat Right by the Observer. Yoghurt with fruit and nuts, salmon with roast vegetables, pasta salad and fruit and crackers and hummus…
Madagascar andAfrica. The website of Madagascar National Tourism Board. South Africa for 15 nights with the supplier Riviera Travel for 1499 pounds and the Nile for seven nights from 649 pounds with another supplier, Discover Egypt.
Trust has received 1000 complaints to keep Asian Network open. This is ridiculous. The station is key to the Asian music scene. Seems apathy has reared its ugly head in regards to Save BBC Asian Network. Come on everyone, we can do better than 1000 complaints. EMAIL srconsultation@bbc.co.uk NOW to Save BBC Asian Network. Just be honest. Keep it simple or state your reasons for not closing it down.
22.11.09 – Thailand. Have you ever travelled to Thailand and Bangkok? Would you like to travel there? Please see below as well.
Mediterranean countries for “The Observer” and more
Cancun, Mexico, Central America and Asia. Have you ever been to Cancun in Mexico or Thailand? And maybe from Sweden? Which are the flights? And where have you been?
Sitges. September in Spain from the UK? In Sitges? Do you know salsa music? Or maybe do you like to eat in tapas restaurants?
Again Italy. Do you like whales or dolphins in the Ligurian Sea or maybe Basilicata with southern Apennines and “bread from bakeries in Matera, wine from Aglianico and cheese from the mountains”? And do you like this list by The Observer?
An island.Sardinia‘s Supramonte Mountains and plateau, Sorgente Su Gologone and the Lanaittu Valley or a Nuraghic village. Any help needed by the Association for Tourist Services, Culture and Environment in Orgosolo or the Agrituristica Guthiddai? Would you like to taste boiled sheep, roasted pork, bread and salami or cheese, local wine and olive oil?
Going on with food, would you feel like eating almonds, carob, olive, pistachio and walnut trees? In Can Marti – Ibiza, Spain, with Swiss owners… Furthermore there is “homemade bread with local jam and honey”…
Spain and France. And what about Cortes de la Frontera in Spain and a lot of place in France like Béziers, the Languedoc, the Canal du Midi and Carcassonne? Or the vineyards of Minervois, Ventenac and the Cathar castle at Lastours? A wind farm there…
Burgundy and gay naturism. A gay naturist retreat in Burgundy by Citronniers with a price of 80 euros per night per person with a 3-course evening meal, full English breakfast, lunch and all drinks included.
Marche. And would you like mountains’ cycling holidays in Alpujarras, Spain, as the second page of the article offers? Or an agriturismo in Le Marche, Italy? Here more information…
Cycling and eating. Do you know the village of Bérchules and the Alpujarras? And the Sierra Nevada above Granada and the Mulhacén in Spain? Do you like mountains’ cycling and picnicking? You should pay 630 euros a week.
Farming. A country house and organically run farm in Le Marche, Italy… What? A five-course evening meal?! Incredible… And “heating is solar-powered and there’s a wood-fired stove fuelled by coppicing from the farm woods”. Plus truffle-hunting not very far from Rimini, Urbino and Ancona. Doubles from €110 including breakfast.
Ssese’s Islands. Do you know where the tropical Ssese’s Islands are? If you would like to know it, please see this reportage by Richard Eilers for The Observer… Sands, forest walks, a lake, fried tilapia, above all the rapids and Bob Marley… And, moreover, as for names, Kampala, the MS Kalangala from Entebbe to Bugala, Lutoboka, Kibale Forest national park and the Bassese and, as for animals, gorillas and chimpanzees…
The Nile. And do you know what mzungu means, who Idi Amin is and where Jinja and the Bujagali Falls are? Clues for my question are the Nile and the lakes Nyinambuga and Victoria… Last, but not least, have you ever been to the Ssese Islands Beach Hotel, the Haven, the Ndali Lodge and to the Gately on Nile? Have you ever met South Africans or Americans?
Aircraft. You can fly to Entebbe from Brussels with Brussels Airlines on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 10.40 to 19.35; from Amsterdam and from London Heathrow to Entebbe with KLM. Among the other national parks in Uganda there would be the Bwindi Impenetrable national park in the south-west, Murchison Falls and Queen Elizabeth national parks and “the Foreign Office advises against travel to the Karamoja region, in the north-east”.
Southern Italy. What follows is not an ad and I know my readers should be very intelligent. So I add this link to a project for 122 two and three bed villas and townhouses near Sciacca, Sicily, Italy.
Northern and Central Italy. Do you like Castel Fidardo, near Ancona? And Vicobarone Ziano Piacentino, near Piacenza in Emilia Romagna?
Fiumicino. A mini-Colosseum at the ancient port of Fiumicino, Italy, and professor Simon Keay from the University of Southampton. This is a report by CNN’s Paula Newton.
Tuscany.Truffle hunting in San Giovanni D’Asso, Tuscany, and Siena.
The Transformers explained. The film “Transformers – Revenge of the Fallen” – or the movie, if you are an American – and an explanation.
The “Walkman Project”. The so-called “Walkman Project”
Documentaries. If you have a documentary on the architecte Frank Lloyd Wright and you would like to send it to the “Milano Doc Festival”, you have to fill out the entry form by Friday, July 31, and mail to them a signed filled out paper copy together with a copy of the film at the postal address “Milano Doc Festival, via Tarvisio 2, 00198 Roma, Italy”.
Agrigento, Palermo, Piazza Armerina and Taormina. Seven nights in Sicily from 799 punds supplied for the Guardian Holiday Offers by Riviera Travel. You would visit the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, Palermo, the Casale villa in Piazza Armerina and Taormina visited by Lawrence.
Ocean Countess. The Guardian Holiday Offers and British Isles Discovery Cruise by the ship Ocean Countess ex Hull. Well, for a price range from 474 pounds and 9 nights you will visit Jersey, the Eden Project, the isles of Scilly, Dublin, Skye and the Orkneys. The supplier is Newmarket Holidays.
– Stoke-on-Trent for The Guardian, Laura Barton and Felix Clay. Categories are available and you may also vote below.
Saint Lucia and the Caribbean. The same website offers an holiday in Saint Lucia in the Caribbean for 7 nights at 899 pounds. Probably tourists will see the Twin Piton Peaks and Castries. In this case the supplier is Tropical Sky and the place where you could sleep is Almond Smugglers Cove.
Florida and…Laos, drugs from a tourist point of view and the reporter Ian Belcher. Cruises, southern Florida and the Oasis of the Seas. Gloria Estefan, Robbie Williams’s “Angels”, Fleetwood Mac and the Abba… A report by Tim Adams for The Observer.
P. S. Voting your favourite cruise destination or Laos is easy. Please see below.
– The Kasabian, their song Underdog from their album West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Have you heard something else by Tom Meighan and Sergio Pizzorno?
21.11.09 – Fishing and Jack London.Fishing in British Columbia, Canada, and Jack London’s White Fang. I do not know this book and I hope there is no mistake. If there is a travel destination for your fishing, please state below by choosing or adding your favourite place.
07.11.09 Shrewsbury would be birthplace of Charles Darwin. This town would be in the UK, in the West Midlands, about 60 miles west of Birmingham. I would also write to you that you may vote for the best travel destination for a poll of this blog. Please see below and yuo may also add new places…
01.12.2008– There was a lot of water in Venice. Here’s the “Historic Center of Venice Flooded” as an American newspaper – the New York Times – refers. More or less the same text in the British Guardian and another English newspaper, The Telegraph, gives some advice for travellers. Bbc News uses some photos or titles “Venice is hit by serious flooding” and Cnn “Parts of Venice neck deep in flood water” or AlJazeera “Venice hit by severe flooding”. Instead, the Huffington Post chooses “Venice Hit By Worst Flooding In More Than 20 Years” and Euronews “Flooding alert in Venice”.
Speed Desk Reporter at the Bloomberg in Düsseldorf and Vienna and German Speaking Graduates in Central London. I could not have applied in the first two cases because I have no experience of financial journalism.
20.05.10 – London.Apprenticeships at the London Councils as Principal Policy and Project Officer. The deadline is today at 5 pm.
Nashville and Palermo. Again science for this post (please see below). Never heard of professor Richard Caprioli? He is an expert of biological and clinical research and is based in Nashville, Tennessee. I read of him about a meeting in Palermo, Sicily…
The European industry and young people. European Commission – Enterprise and Industry. A page for young people aged 16-19 and their teachers.
Blog. Why signing in to my blog? To read someting else about Europe, the United States and Italy. Please see the right side of this page.
Trust has received 1000 complaints to keep Asian Network open. This is ridiculous. The station is key to the Asian music scene. Seems apathy has reared it’s ugly head in regards to Save BBC Asian Network. Come on everyone, we can do better than 1000 complaints. EMAIL srconsultation@bbc.co.uk NOW to Save BBC Asian Network. Just be honest. Keep it simple or state your reasons for not closing it down.
31.03.09 – Automakers, the president and an Italian firm. What do you think about Obama’s ultimatum to Chrysler and G.M. and Chrysler’s merger deal with the Italian company “Fiat”? The president of the United States, Barack Obama, has asked yesterday Chrysler and General Motors to change a lot in a fast way or face bankruptcy. Obama gave the first company one month and the second one 6o days to change.
Meanwhile Rick Wagoner, G.M.’s former chief executive, has retired involuntarily in this deal and, as for Chrysler, the American government has asked it to complete the Fiat merger till April 30 or have taxpayer help cut off. In case of a conclusion of the deal the gain for the American automaker should be $6 billion in additional taxpayer aid. Last, but not least this is what I wrote some months ago.
I would like to write more about the automakers in the Usa when I will have more time. In the meantime I refer to Barack Obama‘s opinion about Bush’s announcement. President’s actions – it is the most important point in Obama‘s response – “are a necessary step to help avoid a collapse in our auto industry that would have devastating consequences for our economy and our workers”. Then Obama addresses the societies in an indirect way: “The auto companies – it is his opinion, but I think it is a general opinion – must not squander this chance to reform bad management practices and begin the long-term restructuring that is absolutely required to save this critical industry and the millions of American jobs that depend on it”.
Frozen yogurt and milk. Strawberry frozen yogurt and Reader’s Digest. Milk, Windy Wendy, Spotty Sue, Phlegmy Phil and Chubby Charlie, but also frozen joghurt, Jane Clarke and the Observer.
Ice creams. Do you like ice creams? And how? Which flavours? Let’s try the icecream with white chocolate or almonds… And food with rice? Ice cream makers.
Fish, pumpkin and squids. Squid and chicken in Pueblan green pumpkin seed sauce. Squids, tourism and Terengganu in Malaysia.
Thanksgiving – 29.11.09 Thanksgiving leftovers and avocado turkey wraps after this national holiday day. Or the table before – and preparing – it. Thanksgiving menu and over-stuffed onions as an appetizer. And, furthermore, as I am Italian, I would ask to all of you from America when, ehm, Thanksgiving is…
Cuccia. I thought to share with you a traditional Sicilian plate, the “cuccia” that is eaten on December, 13. I found this website in English that publishes a recipe – or a second and third one. How to make cuccia is also explained in another pageor even this one from a religious point of view. If you like to try it, you can also log on this yellow-coloured page. I will ask my mother if I should add anything – a comment or anything else – about the recipes and these pages. Besides, here there is a website of Faith Willinger, who should be a journalist who deals with food. Food in general.
– Spreadthesign and a teacher learning how to cook
– How to butcher a whole lamb. A video by the Guardian with Julie Powell, “author of Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession”. Furthermore, an album of mine about this newspaper, events and more.
Calogero Mira 