Daniel Sidoli featured in August’s SkyWings magazine

Daniel Sidoli wrote a short article about speedflying at the Lakes Charity Classic 2008 for SkyWing magazine. His flying pilot profile also featured in the same edition. Speedflying at the Lakes Classic By Daniel Sidoli In February I received a surprise e-mail from...

Arandora Star Memorial – South Wales

Arandora Star Memorabilia gallery pictures prodived by collector John Sidoli. A South Wales commitee has been formed to come up with an action plan soon to be published, to put a significant memorial to The Arandora Star disaster here in South Wales. —– On 10th May,...

Luisa’s Toast to Cafe Customers

Article originally by Dave Edwards (walesonline.co.uk) Dispite being 91 years old, Italian-born Luisa Carpanini loves nothing more than sitting in her cafe chatting to customers. Luisa, who was born in Bardi, opened the Cardiff Arms Cafe, Bute Street, with her husband...

Bardi, Italy – Summer 2008

Each Summer the Welsh (and English and American) -Italians take time out of their busy schedules and return to Bardi. With more bars per square inch than San Antonio, Ibiza, festas like Festa del Imigrante or bands like Jam with Robina playing, there is always...

68th Anniversary Memorial for the SS Arandora Star

By Mario Basini Location: Liverpool, England Along with thousands of others in Italian families throughout Britain, part of my mother died beneath the cold waters of the Atlantic one grey morning in July 1940. She had arrived in Wales 16 years before, a wild-eyed...

Peter Marenghi runs the London Marathon 2008

PSC Crewe – Hunters Lodge, Sydney Road – pic of Peter Marenghi who has MS and is running the London Marathon for the Multiple Sclerosis Resourse Centre. Peter Marenghi is today running the London Marathon and hoping to raise £10,000 for The Multiple...