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Stumbling through Italy: Tales of Tuscany, Sicily, Sardinia, Apulia, Calabria and places in-between

Stumbling through Italy: Tales of Tuscany, Sicily, Sardinia, Apulia, Calabria and places in-between
By Niall Allsop

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In September 1999 Niall Allsop and his wife Kay flew to Pisa and stepped onto Italian soil for the first time.
Within six months they returned and therafter they visited Italy at least twice a year, usually to the most southerly provinces of Apulia and Calabria and the islands of Sicily and Sardinia.
They knew they holidayed differently to other people and in Italy, despite the lack of language, they found themselves somehow drawn into people's lives and homes; they had experiences and encounters that seemed to pass others by.
Stumbling through Italy is the irreverent chronicle of their Italian travels and the many remarkable and colorful people they met there up to the summer of 2008 ... when, finally reconciled to the inevitable, they returned to Italy one last time.
Which, as they say, is another story.

Also includes chapters on the idiosyncrasies of the Italian language and the Italian driving experience.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #4244 in eBooks
  • Published on: 2011-07-09
  • Released on: 2011-07-09
  • Format: Kindle eBook
  • Number of items: 1

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About the Author
Niall Allsop was born and educated in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but began his working life as a teacher and headteacher in England.

He left teaching to pursue a career as a photo-journalist specializing in the UK's inland waterways (navigable canals and rivers) and wrote extensively in this field as a contributor to several national magazines and author of a number of related titles.
Later he became a graphic designer and in the early 90s was the in-house designer for a publishing house specializing in photographic titles before becoming a freelance graphic designer.
In 2008 he and his wife Kay moved to Calabria, the toe of Italy where they enjoy a sort of retirement in a small hilltop town and where they are the only English-speaking people.
Niall Allsop is also the author of Keeping up with the Lawrences: Sicily, Sea and Sardinia revisited, which retraces the 1921 journey of DH Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, from their then home in Sicily, to and through Sardinia and back to Sicily via mainland Europe.
Which, as they say, is another story.