In This Issue
New Year News
Happy New Year! We at Dream of Italy hope that 2013 has started well for you. As I write this, the New Zealand summer is really kicking in and many of us have been able to enjoy some wonderful weather.
We choose to take our holidays in the middle of the year, so we are back at work already and have been taking the opportunity, while it is a little quieter, to work on our website. We have added some new features, including the ability to hover over a picture of a product with your mouse and see the image automatically enlarge just where your mouse is. It is just like a magnifying glass - it enables you to run the magnifying glass over the image and see the detail wherever you wish. Check out how it works on this Murano Glass Pendant (especially the silver one)!
We have also simplified the internet shopping cart process to make it much easier for you.
In addition to all that, we have been adding some new products to our website. Check out the 'New Arrivals' tab to see all the new lovely items from Italy just up on the site. In particular we have recently added some new jewellery and with the new product layout on the website it is easy to scan through just that category and see the new items.
In this edition of Dream of Italy news, we also have an excellent article from Tracy Goodall, who is a kiwi based in Tuscany AND a great offer for Dream of Italy customers from our 'Featured Partner'
Murano Glass Vases - $100 off!
Six beautiful Murano Glass Vases reduced by $100!
Be quick, offer expires on 26th January!
All Blacks in Rome!
This section of our newsletter covers interesting things that people just like you are doing in Italy. In this story, Tracy, a Kiwi living in Italy, tells us about her weekend in Rome going to watch the All Blacks take on Italy. Tracy writes.......
A weekend in Rome is always something to look forward to and I don’t do it nearly enough even though it’s less than 4 hours by train from where I live in northern Tuscany. My last trip to the Eternal City, however, took on a whole new dimension. I was heading there to watch the All Blacks play Italy. What’s more, I was taking along two Italian rugby virgins – my fiancé Marcello and his friend Massimo.
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From the moment we arrived in Rome on Friday afternoon Marcello played “spot the New Zealander” as they were out in force and not exactly difficult to miss in their AB shirts.
Marcello was so excited by pre-match fever that he woke me at 5am and suggested we nip down to the Trevi Fountain to enjoy it in peace. I grouched and grizzled that it was 5am for crying out loud, but he pointed out that it was literally 20 metres away and that it was an opportunity not to be missed. My Lovely Italian was right. It was an absolutely magical experience. For a whole 5 minutes, we had it to ourselves apart from a police car discreetly parked off to one side, no doubt there to deter any would-be imitators of Anita Ekberg in the famous scene from La Dolce Vita.
Onwards to the match. The centre of Rome was just abuzz with a feeling of anticipation......
Read more!
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January Italian Recipe - Tiramisú
This year we have been indulging in this lovely Italian dessert and have completely fallen again for this Italian 'pick-me-up'!
Tiramisu' is one of the best known Italian desserts and deservedly so!
Here's a recipe for you to try ...
Check out the full recipe!
Featured Partner
Our Featured Partner for January 2013 is Insight Insurance. What has Insurance got to do with Italy, I hear you say? Well, we have been working with the Directors of Insight Insurance on other aspects of our business such as business coaching and web site optimisation and got to know these people. We have also used their services to review our own insurance, so we thought we would share a good thing with you, our customers. Here is the message from Insight Insurance:
Are You Paying Too Much for Your Insurance?
Not sure what insurances you have, or do you want to be 100% your insurance pays out if you had a claim? A no obligation review will identify any weaknesses in your policies, area’s where you’re over and under insured, plus give you strategies to deal with the risks you face as you grow older, wiser and weathier!
If at the end of the review we can’t significantly improve your insurance, then we’ll leave your insurance unchanged.
To take advantage of a no obligation review, please register below. As a thank you to Alan and Kathy and Dream of Italy for inviting us to write for their newsletter, we’re giving away 11 $100 Dream of Italy vouchers. Just mention ‘Dream of Italy’ in the registration form here.
Request a No-Obligation Review
Feedback
We would love to hear back from you and get your thoughts on our products or services (and the changes we have made to our website)!
