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Pinned Welcome to Puglia, welcome to Life!
Mar 14 2012 08:30 AM | admin in Your Region
Welcome to the first-language-english community in Puglia: PugliaLife.com is a not-for-profit community web-site that is run by and for its members. All people with a genuine interest in our beautiful region are welcome - you don't have to live here like many of our members actually do. You don't even need to be first-language-English to participate - many of us are struggling with our Italian and any help we can get from native Italian speakers is appreciated!
People regularly ask us "can I join" as if we were some mystical sect. You simply don't need to ask; if you love Puglia you shouldn't waste another sunny second!
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Pinned Discount for members of Puglia Life
Mar 14 2012 08:25 AM | Claudio in San Vito Dei Normanni
We have started negotiating special discounts for members of puglialife.com and I am pleased to announce that we have agreed a discount of 10% off all purchases over a certain price bracket with some of our local suppliers. We will keep the forum updat...
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Pinned Puglialife launch NEW service
Mar 12 2012 05:12 PM | Claudio in This is Puglia
We are proud to announce a NEW service to our members........"Tipica Pugliese" "Tipica Pugliese" brings you the taste of typical Pugliese food right to your table. This is how it works..............email me your required date and the...
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Myth of Margarine
May 21 2013 07:03 AM | Claudio in Health Matters
Margarine has its origins in France. In 1866 the French Government launched a competition that called for research into the development of a reasonably priced nutritive fat to be used as an alternative to butter. In 1869, a French chemist named Hippol...
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When going green goes wrong
Apr 05 2013 07:16 AM | Claudio in Your Region
This isn't intended to be a rant or a moan......this is just an article stating some simple facts that have affected our lives here in Puglia. Before, in the good old days........when there were those lovely BIG silver bins......recycling bottles,...
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The Primary Surplus Means Italy Can Leave The Euro
Mar 19 2013 01:42 PM | Claudio in Your Region
I’m sure you’ll have seen the results of the Italian elections: no real winner but we most definitely have a loser, the outgoing Prime Minister. What’s making the markets gyrate like a yo yo though is that there’s now a combination of two things. First...
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Italy brain-drain sparks debate
Italy is facing a "brain-drain", as large numbers of educated professionals continue to leave the country in search of better pay. The number of emigrating Italians, who hold a bachelor degree or above, rose from 11.9 percent in 2002 to 27.6 p...
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New Passenger Rights
New rights for airline passengers have been unveiled by the European Commission.
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Teddy does a runner
Mar 06 2013 11:34 AM | Claudio in Animal Stories
As more stories break on Teddy we follow his recent history and applaud his abilities....... Young Teddy, apparently, was in a gang of 5 or 6 running riot around our area.......not that they ever bothered us.......anyway.......somebody (whose name wil...
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Does anyone know this little one?
Feb 08 2013 12:48 PM | Eternal Plodder in Animal Stories
We have 20 dogs and this little one has turned up and has decided he is going nowhere! He is cute and has been well trained by someone. He was great with cats until one of ours decided to swipe him across the nose and now it is war! :angry: He...
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Berlusconi Pledges to Pay Back IMU Property Tax
You have just got to love this guy...................
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Man flu really DOES exist
Jan 24 2013 01:32 PM | Claudio in Health Matters
The way men's brains are wired means their symptoms really are worse.
Neuroscientist Dr Amanda Ellison has argued that men really do suffer more with coughs and colds .
Says they have more temperature receptors in the brain which means they get more acute symptoms.
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A Stray Dog
Jan 24 2013 09:25 AM | Eternal Plodder in Animal Stories
As the people that know me are aware animals are my passion and cruelty to animals is something I find hard to understand. If I get a chance to talk about the dogs, cats, goats, chickens, ducks and donkey that we have I will :D so I did, on Facebook, y...
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