If you have ever experienced the “goodness”that is Italian espresso,you know how difficult it is to find outside of Italy. Something weird seems to happen to espresso when you cross Italy’s boarders and enter into another country. One step into France or Switzerland and “POOF”the ability to make a truly [...]
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 Custom Search  | Today I’m looking for a little help from all the Italian and Expat bloggers living in Italy. As you may have experienced,it’s hard to find good,current Italian music in the US. So you can imagine how happy I was to join the iTunes revolution and get my fix of Italian music. [...] Meet Dexter! He turned 1 this past September. D-dog is the reason I don’t get more work done. He’s an Italian black lab…ok,he’s actually an English black lab that knows Italian. He knows the following Italian words/phrases. prendi il guinzaglio siediti fai il bravo and of course vuoi mangiare? (it seems [...] So,my birth name is Peppino. However,everyone calls me Joe including my parents,who have always called me Joe. Let me try to explain this. Peppino is a nickname of Giuseppe and Giuseppe of course is Joseph in English. Nicknames of Giuseppe would be:Peppe,Peppino,Peppone,etc. “-ino”meaning little,“-one”meaning [...] I forgot to add one of my favorite things to the list below…actually I probably forgot many but one that I truly love and miss is the smell of roasting castagne (chestnuts) in the winter. The scene of the salesman camped out with his roaster on the corner as people bustled by to [...] A few things I miss from when I lived in Bologna…. - walking under the portici on rainy days –the colors,smells and sounds of the open market –morning cappuccino with my newspaper –running in Giardini Margherita –finding a new interesting shop –My terrace overlooking the rooftops –[...] Getting ready to travel? maybe you have a trip planned for the summer. Have you checked your passport lately? ….. have you really checked your passport? Your passport may not expire until after your trip but it doesn’t mean you’ll be able to travel with it. Many countries require that your passport be [...] We are planning another trip to Italy in June! We have been talking about it for the past year and it looks like we are going to make it happen. The plan is to go in early June for 2 weeks. I’m trying to convince the crew (my brother,his wife,my little [...] We are getting ready to launch Italyville.com (the website. this is the blog) in the next few weeks. The website will include homemade Italian recipes,recommendations,tips on travel and destinations and much more. We are putting some finishing touches on the site and are looking forward to going live.Here are a few challenges [...] A glass of Chianti has lots to say…. so listen up. Chianti is an area within the province of Tuscany in Italy. Originally Chianti was a small area situated between the cities of Florence and Siena but in 1932 the Chianti area was expanded to create 8 sub areas:Classico,Colli Aretini,Colli [...] |    |  | ||
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