Blog archives for June, 2014

This spring I have not really ventured away from Bologna. I’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s because I did a lot of travel last fall or because it seemed that I almost always had someone to see on the weekend or even because I really just didn’t want to go anywhere alone this year as […]

These are two interesting words that I’ve talked about here in Italy with others. The first, suggestivo, came up in conversation at a meeting called the Magic Door, organized by two American expats. The concept is that when you go through the door one cannot speak any Italian, only English. However one of the expats […]