Time a vacation idea. For several years there in my home region on the Lago Maggiore, the festival "Tones on the Stones' place, a number of music and dance events in different quarries. And while it would take at least 10 horses to drag me into an opera house, but last night I went relatively freely in the marble quarry above Crevoladossola [...]

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After being on 16 July, due to bad weather not work out, the Italian swimmer Paolo Chiarino tried on 24 August again, the Lago Maggiore to swim the full length. Dinghy - as well as during the training - again, the yacht "More Even More" to assist him in his many hours trying to conquer the cold Südalpensee [...]

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Paolo Chiarino broke on 16 His July 2009 trial, the northern Italian Lago Maggiore to swim in full due to bad weather and the cold after 55 km and 17 hours, 43 minutes. It is - after the 23 hours, 30 minutes and 54 km at the lake - still a world record. Paolo [...]

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While I was at the meticulous evaluation of my now legendary holiday in the Cilento work (watch this space!), Here is the timeliness because once again after a concert report from the North Italian folk god Davide van de Sfroos ... Because it was time again, one year his last visit here on Lake Maggiore made the folk fantasist again hold in my [...]

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More than seven years, I have the lights of this Italian Alpine lake forever attracted to their shores, (live a place meant for people to) in an area that "intended as a place that people live here," an eloquent friend of mine once , described it. The 66 km long and up to 10 km wide, fjord-like [...]

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After four days of incessant rain saturated - November is rainy season here in the Southern Alps - but then ventured into the sun just before and hinted that the late autumn can be quite fantastic in "my" lake. You must keep your eyes open. The mountains above Gravellona are covered with snow for days, which [...]

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As last night, the Italian national team in Final of European Championship qualifying match against Scotland in the arms into the rainy night sky of Glasgow's Hampden Park, raised went through Italian bars and living a sigh of relief from inflated cheeks and to the thousands of same gesture in the right hand vehemently bent from right to left. is shaken. [...]

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There are a few things that I face my life in Berlin but then miss ... brown bread (you can buy a cake mix to make yourself at Esselunga), sausage (you can get at Lidl or Penny) and concerts. Concerts are a problem, though here in the village and the more beautiful it was, that Davide van de Sfroos here in [...]

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The Frecce Tricolori were in Verbania. Here in my quiet little town and not much else happening so naturally I went to the beach from Suna to see the largest and certainly one of the best aerobatic teams in the world against the spectacular alpine scenery. A truly amazing show!

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