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Meet Camillo, Germany's Roaming Facebook Cat

Meet Camillo, Germany's Roaming Facebook Cat

EICHSTATT —Camillo the cat nearly missed his TV appearance. The one-year-old feline belongs to the Auer family in the this Bavarian town of 14,000, but he is anything but a house cat. No, Camillo spends his days and nights attending parties around town, visiting art galleries, and catching a cat nap in a comfortable chair in the office of a loan officer at a local bank.

With all this exploration, the German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung reports, the Auers grew tired of looking for their itinerant kitty all the time, and decided to open a Facebook page to track him along with their phone number posted around town from bakery shops to the municipal library.

And the good folk of Eichstätt are happy to play along. They like the cat’s moxie, have dubbed him Camillo the Town Cat, and post photos and messages about him on the Facebook page. This is a relief to Camillo’s owners because a glance at the page gives them an approximate idea of their pet’s whereabouts.

To get him home for filming for a television program, the Auers posted a word on Facebook and — 138 "likes" and ten comments later — somebody reported seeing Camillo snoozing on the sidewalk outside a music store.

The Auers got him home and have to try and keep him there at least until the camera crew has finished filming.

Photo: via facebook

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The Australian Dream: Lived, Loved And Lost By Yearning Italian Youth

Every year thousands of young Italians apply for a Working Holiday visa and escape to Australia. They have many reasons for leaving — but many seek a better work-life balance down under. And then, there are those who cut their adventure short to return home to the bel paese.

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Uluṟu, Mutitjulu, Australia

Laura Loguercio

MILAN — “The last two days it was 35 degrees, but last week we got over 40.” It’s December. As he speaks to me, it is just past 10 p.m. for Alberto Bellini, while here, in cold, wintery Milan, the afternoon has just begun. Alberto is exactly 12,992 kilometers away from my phone: he called me from Karratha, a town of 23,000 inhabitants in Western Australia.

Alberto is one of the thousands young Italians who, every year, decide to leave everything and move to the other side of the world, taking advantage of the Working Holiday visa that, thanks to an international convention, allows them to live and work in Australia for up to three years.

Another land, another language, another life. The reasons for leaving are many and always different, as are those that convince so many to return to Italy after months or years spent abroad. In some cases, the desire to leave is dictated by the immobility of the Italian labor market, which benefits those who already have everything.

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