Senior 32. Alex Fasolo

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yeah - watching 9, 2, 5, 30, 25, 33 and 10 is enough to send you to sleep.......
I'll give you 30 and 33 (if he gets back) and may even stretch to 25, but we've been a pretty dull old mob since Eddie, Jeffy and Yazz left.

Fas has some of that magic and possibly some of the downside as well.

My kids (young adults now ) still say it's not the same without Eddie. Got to have sizzle not just meat and potatoes.
 

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I know I know. Was just trying to poke the bear.
Irrelevant factoid warning

Sicily and Sardinia were both Hellenic Colonies in the great age of colonisation circa 700-600BC - Sardinia was quite influential in the Peloponnesian War being the wealthiest state and having its own large naval fleet - a war which pretty much defined what the 'Imperial Idea' was and how powers inevitably exercise control over weaker states. Thucydides is the original and still the best military/political writer a brilliant mind and general who whose Periclean Funeral Oration pretty much outlined the core of the Democratic tradition - both French and American constitutions are direct descendants of the Athenian model of Democracy described perfectly in the Oration- ironically the British Imperial Tradition bares much closer resemblance to the Spartan Tradition. As an aside- Thucydides rather than Herodotus is credited with inventing the notion of Historical writing. Everyone should read the preface and Book One.

If you are lucky enough to holiday in Sicily and you have some passing familiarity with its history - you will no doubt note that there still exist communities whose 'native' dialects include a lot of of 5th century (Attic) Greek roots. The most beautiful and (my favourite ) part of Italy - the North has its charms but the South has the best cooking and a rugged coastal beauty.
 

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Irrelevant factoid warning

Sicily and Sardinia were both Hellenic Colonies in the great age of colonisation circa 700-600BC - Sardinia was quite influential in the Peloponnesian War being the wealthiest state and having its own large naval fleet - a war which pretty much defined what the 'Imperial Idea' was and how powers inevitably exercise control over weaker states. Thucydides is the original and still the best military/political writer a brilliant mind and general who whose Periclean Funeral Oration pretty much outlined the core of the Democratic tradition - both French and American constitutions are direct descendants of the Athenian model of Democracy described perfectly in the Oration- ironically the British Imperial Tradition bares much closer resemblance to the Spartan Tradition. As an aside- Thucydides rather than Herodotus is credited with inventing the notion of Historical writing. Everyone should read the preface and Book One.

If you are lucky enough to holiday in Sicily and you have some passing familiarity with its history - you will no doubt note that there still exist communities whose 'native' dialects include a lot of of 5th century (Attic) Greek roots. The most beautiful and (my favourite ) part of Italy - the North has its charms but the South has the best cooking and a rugged coastal beauty.
JAB. You’re a renaissance man. Cooking and now travel.

Next time I land in Rome, and after I visit my mum’s village in the Abruzzi, I’m heading south to take in the history, culture, sights and food of Southern Italy and Sicily.

A point of interest concerning the Abruzzi is that it is heavily influenced by the Greeks as well. It was too bloody hard for those Romans to scale the Apennines.
 

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Irrelevant factoid warning

Sicily and Sardinia were both Hellenic Colonies in the great age of colonisation circa 700-600BC - Sardinia was quite influential in the Peloponnesian War being the wealthiest state and having its own large naval fleet - a war which pretty much defined what the 'Imperial Idea' was and how powers inevitably exercise control over weaker states. Thucydides is the original and still the best military/political writer a brilliant mind and general who whose Periclean Funeral Oration pretty much outlined the core of the Democratic tradition - both French and American constitutions are direct descendants of the Athenian model of Democracy described perfectly in the Oration- ironically the British Imperial Tradition bares much closer resemblance to the Spartan Tradition. As an aside- Thucydides rather than Herodotus is credited with inventing the notion of Historical writing. Everyone should read the preface and Book One.

If you are lucky enough to holiday in Sicily and you have some passing familiarity with its history - you will no doubt note that there still exist communities whose 'native' dialects include a lot of of 5th century (Attic) Greek roots. The most beautiful and (my favourite ) part of Italy - the North has its charms but the South has the best cooking and a rugged coastal beauty.
Yeah it’s cool stuff. I’ve read a lot of both.
 
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