While it’s nice to shop at a lot of little stores, sometimes I really just want to go to a supermarket. Buying stuff like toothpaste, butter and eggs can be done at the little stores but the prices tend, naturally, to be higher and you generally can’t buy everything in one place. There’s a little […]
Well, it’s not really exactly the street where I live. My house is on a little side street. La casa “house†in Italy is the place that you call home rather than “house†as a structure. In fact most Italians, at least in the cities, live in apartments. Apartments are in a “palazzoâ€. Yes, the […]
Pasquetta is a holiday here. It is the Monday after Pasqua (Easter). Generally people spend Pasqua with their families and Pasquetta feasting with their friends. My friend Vittorio and his lovely wife Barbara invited me to join them in the mountains with a bunch of their friends. They were already in the mountains since Barbara’s […]
