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Meet Cinque: Citizen of Loreto Aprutino and One Smooth Operator

Cinque is a dog.

He isn’t anyone’s pet or working dog.

He lives in Loreto Aprutino and is a regular sight walking along Piazza Garibaldi, Via Vittorio Veneto and Via Dei Normanni.

Some say he can smell freshly cooked arrosticini from 5 km.
Some say he can bark in 5 languages.
Some say he saved 5 worn-out travellers stranded in [...]

A Special Birthday In Sulmona (AQ), Abruzzo

We set off early for Sulmona. At around 08:30 I think. That’s probably a bit early to go anywhere you don’t have to be when you’re on holidays, but we had a good reason.

It was a Saturday. Saturday 20th March to be exact. We knew it was market day and we made the assumption that [...]

Spoltore (PE) Abruzzo: Saint Patrick’s Day (afternoon)

Still in Spoltore and feeling a bit peckish we looked for a place to have lunch. Local knowledge is always a great help so P asked a butcher and he pointed us to Les Arcs at Via G. Fonzi, 139, the main road through the town.

We were definitely the only tourists in Les Arcs. In [...]