Life in Italy, Real Estate in Italy, Move to Italy
2015 is about to end and Italy has been summing up its achievements and losses. It hasn’t been an easy year for the world and neither has it been for the Bel Paese. In spite of an economical crisis that fails to end, an army of scoundrels leading the country and an increasingly […]
Diary of Italy The Roman Forum (Maurizio Mori/flickr) On a bright and sunny morning, my airplane from Melbourne landed at the airport in Rome. My summer holiday was finally beginning. I had decided to take a trip to Italy because my mother arrived from there to Australia, and this was her homeland. […]
Macugnaga is a small mountain village located in the Piedmont region of Italy in the province of Verbania-Cusio-Ossola. The village is located along the Anzasca valley in the Monte Rosa mountain range. The village was first inhabited by the Walser, which are German natives belonging to the Swiss Canton […]
Have you ever wondered how the Italian school system works? We in Italy tend to despise it and if there is a certain truth behind the critique, especially when it comes to the way people are hired and the rampant instability of education jobs in the country, it is also […]
History of Murano Glass, part 2: The raw materials used in Venetian glass during the Renaissance differed slightly from their competing Islamic counterparts.
When you are learning a language, it is the idioms and the slang that make you feel as you can really speak it. As all other languages, Italian is also rich of curious expressions used by its speakers to define something not always related in meaning to the words used […]
You may think grocery shopping is a silly topic for an article. Farmers market in Venice (Dorli Photography/flickr) Well, it would be if I went on telling you about the difference between shopping in supermarkets and local stores or about the advantages of buying fresh and organic products versus highly processed […]
Guaranteed Skiing, Snowboarding, and Memories Be sure to check out Part I of snow activities in Friuli Venezia Giulia High Above Friuli Venezia-Giulia‘s mountains charm thanks to their unspoiled beauty. If you like high altitude skiing, Friuli offers perfect locations to do it immersed in the beauty of the Eastern […]
Be sure to check out Part II of Winter activities in Friuli Venezia Giulia! Great winter activities in Friuli Venezia Giulia When we think of the Eastern Alps, our minds almost instinctively run to Trentino Alto-Adige and Veneto, but there is another region enjoying their millenary beauty, Friuli Venezia-Giulia. Friuli […]
That I love the English language comes without saying: I graduated in English literature, I got both my masters degree and my doctorate writing in this language and, today, I work mostly through English. I read the news and a great deal of books in English, too, and I still speak […]