3 Random Photos

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Abruzzo Television Online with TV Sei

I find it difficult to find the time I need to practise my Italian when I’m not in Italy.

Up to now most of the “live” Italian I’ve been listening to in Dublin has come from internet radio. Although I don’t understand everything that’s said, far from it in fact, I find the commentary and songs keep [...]

In pursuit of Vestina, the ancient land of the Vestini of Abruzzo

It started with a chance meeting and later it became a tiny obsession, a little itch that needed to be scratched.

The meeting was with Gaetano of Vestina News and the obsession was the word Vestina.

I first met Gaetano during the summer as I tried to find the best vantage point to take photographs [...]

Giro d’Italia 2010 stages in Abruzzo

I may be alone in this view but I think there are some sports that aren’t really spectator sports. In saying that I realise that what constitutes a spectator sport for one fan is the closest thing to a brain numbing activity for another.

Football, loved and watched by many, bores the pants off many [...]