... the next morning. He drove his old Dacia as a shuttle between Curtea and Domnești, but had previous work experiences in Hungary, Austria and Italy as a builder. Having been abroad, he felt entitled to ...
... in Italy. Hoping to stretch this thread of conversation a little further, I asked if he knew in what city that was, but I was met by an utterly blank look. His brother, however, came to his rescue and ...
... I only partly share – is the same in all the southern ports he had called at, be they in Greece, Italy or Spain. But when the talk shifted to politics I felt there might open a rift between the two of ...
... of the censorship. The outcome of the Russian campaign practically marked the fall of Fascism in Italy, so many were the victims blamed on the once arch-popular Duce who had led the country to ruin.
My ...
... the fact with a German guest at the hostel, who asked me in surprise why I would have given up the herrings. When he realised I was wary of fried food, he said: "I have also been many times to Italy, and ...
... are, the Chambers in Italy are plagued by the ills of the public sector: the management obeys to the rules of politics and not efficiency; the services are not offered in a competitive perspective because ...
My visit to Vinitaly took me to South Tyrol as an extra weekend trip this year. The choice was dictated by chance because I found a convenient car-sharing ride to Bozen. I therefore set Udine aside, and ...
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When my guest arrived we sat down in the living-room and engaged in an interesting conversation touching on a variety of topics related to the history, arts, cinema, and geography of Italy. He was ...
... the Chinese name in order to check what care they needed, or, if I’d have to use them as a remedy, what properties were attributed to them. If they didn’t survive all the way to Italy, I’d still be able ...
... my destination. I sketched an itinerary, collected information and set myself the goal of exploring just this one province, whose area is roughly 60% of my country Italy – not small.
I tend not to ...
... sellers offer bunches of fresh mint to brew Moroccan tea, not to mention the various types of Arab bread or other items. It was a clear sign that Italy was already well advanced into an epochal change, ...
... the teaching of English so poor in my country, but I couldn’t blame him. He was perfectly right. In Italy, like in other southern European countries, foreign languages (now especially English) are taught ...
... rooms with wooden flooring shared a fully equipped kitchen and a dining-room. The young manager, who had spent time touring Italy and Spain, welcomed me and talked about his cycling adventures. As a result ...
As I walked into the dormitory an ageing man welcomed me as if we were best friends who had not met for ages. He gushed compliments about Italy, talked about its delicious food, quaint towns, interesting ...
Since I was working at Vinitaly exhibition in Verona on Monday, I had the idea to leave as early as Friday and pay myself a weekend away. My destination was Trieste.
When I was a teenager, my uncle ...
... I wanted to send my friend a postcard from Italy. I set out to patiently copy the several lines of his address, all in one paragraph as he had sent it to me, until I feared the space would not be enough ...
... it back home.
The talk was all about the exciting titbit that was being commented upon by every member of the large family, here in Italy as well as across the sea in Israel. The day before, a cousin ...
... firearms didn’t do was taken care of by the devilish winter weather and the atrocious living conditions.
This was the frontier between the Austro-Hungarian province of Trento and the Kingdom of Italy, ...
... of a profitable textile industry: good trasport facilities. These were not just by train but also by road, if you think that the second motorway to be built in Italy was from Bergamo to Milan, in 1927. ...
... people died in that attack, which was motivated by the suspicion that the factory might be manufacturing war material for the Germans, by then confined to the north of Italy under the Repubblica di Salò ...