... Lada stopped. In front were two young fellow, behind their old father and his brother. I made an attempt at small talk and when they discovered I was Italian, the uncle said one of his relatives lived ...
... customer paid a round to us all. The welcoming atmosphere, the man said, was a common trait in the hospitality culture and the traditional set of values of the Mediterranean – which as a northern Italian ...
... considered it as the product of sublime refinery. I stood watching it for a long time.
Baroque was the style that great Italian architects used to conquer the hearts of the Russian czars.
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... furrowed the waters and lost itself in this immensity. The embankment was practically desert apart from a beautiful young mother strolling her child. A squat building painted the colours of the Italian ...
... and I realised the talk was about Italian prisoners of war who were interned in this very place from March 1943 to June 1946. The column of imprisoned soldiers, driven by Soviet guards, arrived at Suzdal ...
I didn't have much time left in the afternoon I arrived in Moscow, but I couldn't possibly miss the date with my Italian friend. It was "make or break" on that day because she was there only until her ...
... leaves from the old man's stretched hand and greedily stuck them into its mouth. I broke the ice with a friendly remark, and the younger man asked about my nationality. When he learned I was Italian, a ...
... letting town life flow at an undisturbed pace. Just outside, a bridge over the Awash river spans the gorge. Built by the Italians, who in the late 1930's had the vast country criss-crossed by a network ...
We had barely driven a dozen kilometres and the countryside had returned to the archetypal rural landscape, Addis Ababa long forgotten after its last concrete buildings. My eyes were mesmerised by the ...
... flinch from the duty. I sang an Italian pop song from the 60’s that a Chinese friend had once liked and I thought it might meet their taste. It was a success. But the best part was of course the Dong girls ...
... work of an Italian scholar who worked on an interesting documentation project.
The next day I spent my last hours on the beach before moving on to Accra. The acrid fumes were a shock after the free winds ...
... that the resulting lake is the biggest artificial reservoir in the world, but you could never imagine its proportions just by looking at the dam. Still, this massive Italian-built barrage gave rise to ...
... waiting for this momento, I made myself a cook and prepared a dish of yidali mian, or Italian pasta, for my friends’ lunch. At 6 Beijing time, which is 4 by the local sun, Haotian and I set out to explore ...
... we could resume our walk, while he was humming opera melodies after he knew I was Italian.
We spent a full hour in the shady grounds of the monastery. The atmosphere was relaxed and the site interesting, ...
Basta parole inglesi, straniere, invasori nella nostra lingua! Inventiamone di nuove, riscopriamone di vecchie, creiamone di composte, purché siano italiane. Ci dobbiamo rinnovare, non scimmiottare! Qui ...
... Italian coin bearing the insignia of the regime, i.e. the eagle standing on the fasces surrounded by a crown of laurel. On its head side, the effigy of Vittorio Emanuele III, King and Emperor and the date ...
... and the nature of the vehicle. This road must have received no maintenance since the Italians built it in the 1930’s. It’s a remarkable achievement of civil engineering, especially after Debark where the ...
... bottle to fry the onions, it tastes rather good. This is the last night of the trek and we meet two nice people that will start it tomorrow, a Canadian and an Italian lady. Our last day walking day ...
... one, itself housed in what must have been yet another Italian era venue, but it was really seedy and not too reassuring.
Finally, I found the villa. The building stood behind a curtain of tall ...
... the Italian-built bridge would look like.
The last stretch of the road in fact revealed two bridges: a modern one, built by the Ethiopian-Japanese cooperation, and the other about 70 years old, built ...