Category Archives: fondi

Hello again

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Charles Lambert

It’s been far too long since I wrote anything here and I apologise to anyone who might have been wondering what I’ve been up to in the past year and a half. Briefly, like that of most people, my life … Continue reading →

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Recycling

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Charles Lambert

The town I live in, Fondi, has a brand new town council. Well, not quite brand new. The freshly elected mayor (with over 55% of the vote) is a Mr De Meo – you may remember him from the election … Continue reading →

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Scum rising to the top

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Charles Lambert

Last night’s edition of Anno Zero talked about Fondi, the town I’ve lived in for the past eight years. Anno Zero is one of the programmes Berlusconi accuses of being fazioso, a holdall term that roughly translates as not being … Continue reading →

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Busy on Friday?

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Charles Lambert

There’s a long post to be written about Fondi and the Mafia, so long that I haven’t time to do it today. But I’ll find the time, I hope, before Friday when the town will be host to a national … Continue reading →

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Celebrity

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Charles Lambert

I’ve been thinking about celebrity these past few days. Not the kind that ‘iconises’ and manipulates and destroys, Michael Jackson style; something much smaller, even laughably so, and closer to home. You may have noticed a few posts down that … Continue reading →

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big fish small pond

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Charles Lambert

Well, I’m suddenly a big fish in a small pond, specifically the whole of the second page of the very local edition of the local newspaper, Latina Oggi. A journalist called Maria Sole Galeazzi claims – erroneously – to have … Continue reading →

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Travelling

Posted on May 11, 2008 by Charles Lambert
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Power of the press

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Well, I hadn’t realised the Sunday Telegraph would have such impact in a provincial Italian town.I’d decided to keep pretty quiet about the piece I wrote on Fondi a few weeks ago, on the grounds that the information wasn’t there … Continue reading →

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Roof stuff

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Last September, I posted a piece about the legal problems we were having with the roof of our house here in Fondi. It’s a long, and painful, story and if you don’t remember the details I suggest you click here. … Continue reading →

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My kind of, er, promotion

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Before you throw out yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph (and I haven’t said that very often recently, if ever), take a look at the Travel section, under My Kind of Town. You’ll find a photograph of me, yawn, and an article about … Continue reading →

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