Joelle Edwards

Joolle Edwards is an English event and wedding planner, working in exclusive venues across Italy (www.joellemarie.co.uk). She recently moved to Florence from London after having lived and worked in Switzerland, Palermo and Barcelona. She'd like to sing like Fiorella Mannoia, write like Andrea Camilleri, dance like Ginger Rogers and cook like zia Anna Maria! You can reach her at weddings@joellemarie.co.uk

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UK to Florence by Vespa!

  As the Tuscan summer heat keeps some people indoors, two people who are making a beeline to feel the warmth of Florence are Dyanne and Keith Edwards from the ...

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It’s teatime on the Arno!

In 2012 Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, celebrates 60 years of reign as monarch and head of the 16 Commonwealth Realms of the United Kingdom. In Florence, special events organized by the British Institute will join myriad celebrations taking place in London and around the world from June 2 to

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Elaine Poggi

Elaine Poggi has been living in Florence for almost 38 years, and for the past 10 years she has devoted her life to giving comfort and hope to patients and ...

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Jeff Scurran

Jeff Scurran is new in town and is here on a mission. As the new coach of Guelfi Firenze, Florence's American football team (www.guelfifirenze.it), he has travelled across the Atlantic from Tucson, Arizona, to get the team ready for the start of an exciting new season. The

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Tomas Simcha Jelinek

Tomas Simcha Jelinek has many stories to tell. He has been living in Tuscany for the past 30 years, both in Florence and in the Chianti hamlet of Lamole, and he is currently the manager of Ruth's kosher and vegetarian restaurant (www.kosheruth.com), next to Florence's Synagogue

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Elia Nichols

Elia Nichols grew up wanting to be an actress and one day live in Florence. And this is precisely what she set out to do. Today, after five years of living in the city, this very determined young woman is not only an accomplished actress, but she also created an

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Alessandro Soltrani

Alessandro Soltrani smiles a lot, and he has a lot to smile about as the owner of one of the most popular bars in Florence, Enoteca Sant'Ambrogio Caffè, situated in the Santa Croce district. Born and raised in Iran, he first came to Italy as a student back

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Keith Sheldrake

We all know the fairytale scenario of a young female foreigner being swept off her feet by a romantic Italian and moving to Florence to live happily ever after. After all, it's not easy for an Italian man to start a new life away from Italy, and it's

Lifestyle

Bombay Sapphire in Tuscany

  Everyone is familiar with the black rooster label, which has come to symbolize one of Tuscany‘s most famous areas and products, the Chianti Classico and its full-bodied red wine. ...

Lifestyle

Lights…Cake…Action!

Is the wedding season in Tuscany!   You've seen the happy couples in piazza della Signoria and piazza Duomo, and if you haven't, you definitely will. Each year for the past 20 years, an average of 1500 couples have said ‘I do' in the Palazzo Vecchio, and

Lifestyle

A landmark en passant

More than 120 years after its 1877 closure, the ‘English Cemetery' of Florence had fallen into a derelict state. Tombstones were unstable and cypresses were falling.   Permission for a restoration project was officially granted in 1997, when the city of Florence also approved 500 new loculi (burial plots)

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A landmark en passant

For a great number of Florentines the familiar small, walled oval hill on piazzale Donatello is little more than a roundabout. Granted, it is a rather mysterious roundabout, higher than most, revealing peaks of elegant cypresses and glimpses of marble tombstones, but undoubtedly a landmark en passant for the modern

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