Festa dell'unità d'Italia

We are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy with a special evening on Wednesday 17 August from 6.30 pm at the Masonic Lodge, Cashmere, 95 Dyers Pass Road.  Dinner and entertainment $25 pp, children under 10 free. Please book and pay by the 12 August (see the latest newsletter for more information)

Cartolina 3 August

Ray Edwards talks about travelling in Italy with a young family. He gives useful hints about Florence and Rome. Also Wilma adds her advice and suggests itineraries in Rome.

Elise in Firenze

Cartolina 20 July

Ray Edwards had the chance of a personal tour of the Lamborghini factory in Sant'Agata Bolognese. He describes this amazing facility with plenty of anecdotes on travelling in Italy with a family of two toddlers. 

Elise, Ayrton and Ray Edwards  next to a Diablo prototype 
in the museum. Note Ayrton ‘s very early interest in cars.

Cartolina in winter 8 June to 6 July

Denis Walker, President of the Christchurch Dante Society and Cartolina’s co-producer, is in Italy on an extended study & holiday time.

He has been recording phone conversations called “Cartoline senza francobolli” (stamp-less postcards), telling of his impressions and experiences as a temporary resident in Rome.

Wednesdays at 7.30 pm: 8 June, 22 June and 6 July.

REFERENDUMS 2011

BY 9 JUNE IN NEW ZEALAND, ON 12-13 JUNE IN ITALY
Italian nationals who reside overseas and certain categories of nationals
temporarily living abroad, more clearly specified hereunder, may vote on the
following abrogating referendums, by no later than 9 June in New Zealand,
Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands, and on 12 and 13 June in Italy

1. popular referendum n. 1 – Means of entrusting and administrating
public services of economic relevance – Abrogation;
2. popular referendum n. 2 – Determination of water supply charges on the
basis of adequate return on invested capital – Partial abrogation of the
norm;
3. popular referendum n. 3 – New power plants for the production of
nuclear energy – Partial abrogation of the norms;
4. popular referendum n. 4 – Abrogation of the norms of law n. 51 of 7
April 2010, in the matter of the legitimate impediment for the President
of the Council of Ministers and of Ministers to appear in criminal
proceedings, as a consequence of Constitutional Court sentence n.23 of
2011.

For further information contact the Embassy of Italy in Wellington:
http://www.ambwellington.esteri.it/ambasciata_wellington.

Cartolina 11 May

Ron Birch tells of his Italian holiday off the beaten track, in Pisciotta, 

a lovely seaside village where sunsets come with lovely food and songs.