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By Gina Paone Kulch-Stritch In the summer of 1978, our parents took my 17-year-old sister Jill and twenty-one-year-old me on a European vacation. We spent a week at a resort on the island of Palma de Majorca. We headed to the shops and stopped at the many fashionable […]
With the coming of autumn, Colorno prepares to stage a unique autumn edition of the classic and renowned event Sulla Strada del Giglio. The market for quality gardening will be held in Colorno (PR) on Saturday, October 14, and Sunday, October 15, from 9 a.m. to sunset, in front of […]
Diary of a trip to Italy
Irsina, a pretty 2000 yrs old village in Basilicata.
My sister and I in Venice. My husband is in the Army. Almost one year ago (2013) he told me that we were moving to Vicenza, Italy; it seemed so unbelievable to me that we were actually that lucky! We were given the choice of living in Government house or private. We […]
Spending time in Italy today is not much of a cultural shock: in the end, both the US and Italy belong to the same western cultural context and share a good amount of habits. There are quirks and differences, though, and it’s often these that make each of these countries […]
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. […]
A Fictional Tale Inspired by a Stay in Italy “Do you think his whole arm bone is in there or just a piece of it?” Mom whispered to Sara, as she stared intently at the object in the glass display case. Sara stifled a sigh. Bones. The Medici Chapel in […]
To be married in Italy by a rabbi who spoke Hebrew with an Italian accent was almost as funny as listening to Jerry Lewis speaking Italian in a dubbed film. Jerry’s high-pitched, squeaky voice in Artists and Models and the rabbi’s deep, solemn tones in our marriage ceremony ranged […]
Venetian Dreams Venice is a city suffused with light and beauty. To say it is lovely is like saying St Peter’s is a church, or Siena a walled city. It isn’t untrue, it just isn’t saying nearly enough. Canals that widen and narrow as they twist, their currents unknown by […]