Italian Heatwave

"Authorities here said Friday that they are taking action to help tourists survive the heat wave Italy is simmering under at the moment. The Rome Civil Protection Department has started handing out bottles of water to tourists queuing outside the city’s museums to stop them taking ill because of dehydration."

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Open air Church in North Italy

"Worship at a Baptist church in northern Italy is going alfresco this summer, as an extensive building project begins, which will allow greater ministry
opportunities.
Genoa Baptist Church, led by BMS World Mission pastoral couple Claire and Mark Ord, received the go-ahead for building work a few weeks go, and got underway just last week."

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Food in Italy

"Pizza, pasta, pesto, bruschetta, fresh leaves drizzled with peppery green olive oil ... We all think we know what Italian food is — but do we? On our travels, rather than on the pages of cookbooks, there is no such thing as a single, homogenised Italian cuisine — only Italian cuisines. Landscape, location and climate determine what is eaten in each of the 20 or so regions. Here is a guide to the best of them."

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World Cup Champions

Just been watching the end of the World Cup Final and Italy have won the world cup in penalties 5-4 (having drawn with France 1-1). The last time they won the world cup was 1982. So there will be much celebrations in Italy tonight!

Phil & Morven

Lakes...

As Morven said we are hoping to be going to Italy in a couple of months time! Lake Garda, near where we are going is said to be the largest lake in italy. It is situatied between Lombardy and veneto. There is a number of other significant lakes such as Lake Maggiore, Lake Iseo, Lake Orta, Lake Trasimeno, Lake Vico, Lake Bolsena, Lake Albano, Lake Nemi and Lake Bracciano. Just to name a few!

The Boot

Morven has already described our like for italy in the previous post. Well the first time I heard of Italy was when I saw Italy in a map and to me it was described as a boot. It was always that Boot until Morven and I went to italy for our honeymoon (knowing this was where Morven would love to go).
The following year after we got married we went back to Italy with Oak Hall, a christian holiday organisation and this time we went by bus instead of the plane. It wasnt until this occasion driving through the different countries from the tunnel tower that I begun to realise where this "boot" fitted in with other countries.