We're not Furlan (or Friulan) :) We're Giuliani hence the name of the region is Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Our dialect is a venetian dialect and the traditional area is all the eastern parts of the old venetian republic so down towards Croatia which is where LFC's family. Pre-WWI we were in the Austro-Hungarian empire and in between the 2 world wars all that region was part of Italy. Post-war Tito took pretty much all of it up to Trieste which ran as a free state for a few years and had ally controlled and yugoslav controlled sections a bit like Berlin. Don't why I wrote all that :laugh:

Yep the Fogolar is still there, last time I went there with some Furlan friends we cracked the shits with the staff for some reason I can't remember :laugh:

The Triestini have their own club that my grandparents are still involved in called the Alabarda. They used to have a huge property at Holden Hill with a big hall and a bocce drome. The next generation weren't interested in keeping it going so it was sold off for housing and now the oldies just rent out small halls from the council once a week to meet. The Melbourne club is still going strong though https://www.facebook.com/triestesocialclubmelbourne/