Adventures in emails – a review of Campaign Monitor

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Up until now I’ve thought little about actively collecting emails from readers, or using those emails to market what I write.

Over the past month, however, I’ve been dwelling over ebooks and considering creating my own. Perhaps the novels I’ve written aren’t worth the light of day, but I’m attached to them and would love to see them published in some format, if only so I can say they are actually finished! Then maybe some travel guides collating some of my wanderings, readings and philosophical musing together. Always so many things on my to do list.

To manage all this, being able to collect, co-ordinate and personalise emails to notify the readers of my blog would be a bonus.

 

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Finding Italy’s Oldest Pharmacy

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It took me two days to find the Profumo – Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella. Admittedly, I was jet-lagged, and the search was confounded by the fact four places have the same address on the one street – little wonder I gave up that first day.

In true existential fashion, however, I only found the place by heading off to find somewhere else the following morning.

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The Farnese Hercules and the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

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In a museum boasting such a staggering collection, the Farnese Hercules simply dominates the room. I kept walking around him, wondering how such a work of art is possible. How can such tension and flow, such a range of textures, be caught in a single piece of marble?

There is obviously more to Naples’ Archeological Museum than Hercules. Much of the Farnese Collection has ended up here, and well as works recovered from Pompeii and Herculaneum.As well as an extensive Ancient Egyptian collection, the museum has extensive Greek and Roman art, and gems collected by the Medici. There is also the titillating ‘Secret Room’ which (apparently, I didn’t visit!) displays an extensive collection of erotic items, largely from Pompeii. Once walled up in the hope the collection would fade from memory, it has only been open to the public since 2000.

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5 Australia Destinations Every Nature-Loving Aussie Must Visit

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Australians have good reason to be proud of their country. The big cities are awesome, but the biggest draw-card has to be the grandeur of the great outdoors. Here lie some of the world’s most picturesque landscapes, and all of them are easily accessible. If you have the will, then there will be a way. Below, are some of the essential destinations that all nature-loving Aussies have to visit at least once in their life.

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