Beppe Severgnini
Tuesday, January 20th, 2015
Ah, another month and another post. When I’m writing about Italian stuff it’s hard to maintain as much enthusiasm about posting items as when I’m in Italy. Not that I don’t think about Italy, the Italian language and (especially) Italian food it’s just that it seems like I’ve been over a lot of that before. In any […]
Beppe Severgnini
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“Home†to Bologna
Monday, December 22nd, 2014
On Sunday we boarded a Frecciabianca (white arrow) train back to Bologna. There are the Frecciarossa, Frecciaargenta and Frecciabianca. The Red Arrow train is a “bullet train†in the Japanese parlance. They have such high speed trains in Europe but of course we don’t have them here. I took the Frecciarossa to Torino once from […]
“Home†to Bologna
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Bari Again
Sunday, November 30th, 2014
We had to leave Lecce fairly early for the long drive back to Bari. That was where we had rented that car and we had decided that Bari warranted another full day or so to do it justice. Thanks to my iPhone GPS I was able get into the city and to the address of […]
Bari Again
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Galipoli
Saturday, November 22nd, 2014
Why did I even know or think of Galipoli? I don’t really recall who it was, but someone Italian that I talked with in Bologna waxed ecstatic about the red shrimp in Galipoli. She said that they were particularly delicious and found nowhere else. So that fixed Galipoli in my mind, food references have […]
Galipoli
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