OK, if you’ve ever heard of a Tuscan talked called Lucignano, raise your hand. I thought so. It is as unknown to you as it was to me when I stumbled across this little jewel of a town; one of countless such beautiful little towns in Italy. A few years ago the Lovely D and [...]
Carmen is an amoral shameless hussy but man, can she sing. She gets into a knife fight, seduces the straight arrow captain, blows him off for the bullfighter, turns smuggler and …. but I wouldn’t want to spoil the ending. As usual I kind of got ahead of myself here so I’ll go back to [...]
I so wish that it could be called Festo Pesto but that would not be correct Italian (Festa Pesto is accurate). I did use that once for the party invitation because I thought that it was cool and few, if indeed any, of the participants knew any Italian at all. I call them participants because [...]
This post could be subtitled “Why I Started Studying Italian Again”. It was a fortuitous sequence of events that led me to take up Italian again. My wife (the lovely D) has a client who had started studying Italian because of her love of Italy. I believe the connection from that point was a familial [...]
