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‘A volte dai tutto, ma non basta’ Sometimes you give everything but it is not enough.
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Goose pimples
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In defence of La Dolce Vita
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Celebrating the Winter Solstice
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With old friends in Tuscany
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Spring in the Tuscan hills
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Idyllic cycling in the Tuscan hills.
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November, month of growth, rejuvenation and unnatural practices.
70 is the new 40.
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Is truth a defence for the writer?
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In defence of La Dolce Vita
La Dolce Vita is alive and kicking. But it’s not a place, it’s an abstract noun, in ones head, or rather in ones heart and the spirit of youth.
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