... the afternoon. I had a word with their teacher before the class began. She welcomed me and said she would love to help me in exchange for assistance in Italian, but unfortunately she had no time at the ...
... 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 ...
... out by Italian institutions and an Israeli foundation recovered the scores from the oblivion they had fallen for the last 70 years and finally put the opera on stage, in accordance to the musician’s final ...
... trying to give myself a reason, but unable to find one.
The memory of those historical events is engraved in the monuments, but increasingly less present in the minds of us Italians. I, for one, made ...
... 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 ...
... mixture between stunning high mountain scenery and tragic historical events. At home, the poignant notes of the song and its lyrics easily moved me to tears.
The name Pasubio is familiar to all Italians ...
... the Paderno bridge, has been a protagonist of Italian railway history for 150 years.
Recently, Milan Central station has undergone a massive refurbishment that, if aiming at bringing out sellable commercial ...
... World War, the ambassadors of France and England came here to pay backhanders to Italian MP’s in order to convince them to join their side, rather than honour the Triple Alliance and fight with Germany ...
... to the spinning mills. After a period of crisis in the 1850’s due to an epidemic of the silkworm, production recovered and thrived up to the 1930’s. Italian silk contributed with a conspicuous share to ...
... 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 ...
... dates from after the Italian period.
Watching the visitors, however, is really worth the walk. After their visit to the holy grounds, they are wearily making their way from it. Most are old skinny people, ...
... to.
The cement factory, built by the Italians in the 1930’s on the edge of the precipice, is still working and avails itself of a cableway that brings the stone from a distant quarry. A supervisor was ...
... turned into a full-time hotel. Even so, I must have hosted around 10 people in only this short time!
I sometimes wonder how much of a typical Italian I am when people meet me, because many travel experiences ...