... artistic treasure we have in Italy, even without the Unesco label.
Probably the only place worth spending some time in was the central square where I had lunch with a soup served in a carved-out loaf ...
... of continents. This crazy rambling would leave him very little time for each country, for example his greed to “see” as many places as possible made him devote only four days to Italy. However, this much ...
... Libya, a runaway who had escaped the uncontrolled unfolding of the revolution. So far, nothing unexpected: he was one of the migrants who made the headlines and stirred mixed feeling not just in Italy ...
... of an overseas visitor. Her grandson described me as coming from a country that she sometimes heard of in the news, which was as much as her representation of Italy could lose its abstractness.
Last ...
... up an old book from the garret. It was the last volume of the guidebooks to Italy and its territories by the Italian Touring Club, devoted to Italian East Africa, dating 1938. Written in a celebratory ...
... not only had made up for the initial one-hour delay, but was going to land two hours ahead of time! I took the liberty to point out that Ethiopia lies in a time zone that’s two hours ahead of Italy.
I ...
On the 17 January it is customary for lots of towns in northern Italy to host a market that specialises in chestnuts cooked or preserved in a variety of ways. The occasion represents the secular side of ...
The Lombardy Chambers of commerce organised a seminar on Chinese tourism in Italy. When I received the invitation I didn’t hesitate to join, as I spent the last two summers in China and the theme ...
... who was coming from Bolivia. And all this was also due to take place on Sunday!
Claudia said that her mother had missed a flight in Argentina and would be arriving in Italy at 6 pm rather than midday ...
... in a flash and at reasonable expenditure compared to the now costly procedure in Italy that requires applicants to go through a service centre, which levies a hefty handling fee.
I leave home at 11: I ...
... orange-throwing festival in Italy, human creativity has found a rich seam to mine. Carnival in the Christian world and Aashura’ in Shiite countries are other examples of festivals where religion intermingles ...
... incredibly long trips by coach to as far as Madrid and a host of other provincial towns in Spain, Italy, etc. where Romanian communities have settled. The huge gap in salaries and in the cost of living ...
... the climb just below the rocks on the other side of the valley from the first path. Next to this way are the Serio waterfalls, the highest in Italy, whose water flow is now curbed by the dam, although ...
... divorced since very soon after her marriage and her daughter had been born. Her sister, also divorced from an alcoholic husband, lives in Italy and is currently out of work. Would I know someone wishing ...
I’m not a fan of eating out and usually prefer shopping for my groceries and cooking the food I eat. Maybe this is why I've taken a real pleasure in cooking lately, launching into enjoyable concocting ...
... cobbled staircase that winds its way across the woods, once the trail of peasants and wayfarers heading to the Graubünden. Now the Italy-Switzerland trail plies the ancient merchant route and you can get ...
For the third consecutive Sunday we’ve gone hiking in the mountains in a weather that’s got better and better. This time it was cloudless, if not perfectly clear, and I’m very glad it wasn’t, because ...
Listening to the delightfully raucous pipe of the flute acting as main voice in the devotional tune, accompanied by other stringed instruments like the sarod, the sitar and the santoor, I drift in the ...
... developed by the Fascist government of Italy. The square that was to be occupied by the monumental marble-lined building of the governement's prefect, appears as an open expanse of grass with a flock of ...
... town spreading on a hillside. Its houses are build in stone and remind me the austere Mediaeval architecture of central Italy. The mosque minarets are peculiar. I go up to Queen Arwa’s mosque and am introduced ...