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Christmas in Calabria

Posted 11-26-2007 at 08:01 PM by frank tarsitano
Updated 11-26-2007 at 09:08 PM by frank tarsitano

A Family Christmas Eve dinner in Calabria



In many regions of Italy, we celebrate our Italian culture and Christmas Eve with local traditions and foods. A family Christmas Eve in Calabria is a special celebration and a time when the Calabresse families get together in a large mass. Sometimes, you wonder if these family members at the dinner table were just extra people who joined the celebration from an early mass at Church. “No relax” there just distant...
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...Anything else

Posted 02-28-2008 at 06:23 PM by Guido Gangi
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This is my first Blog post...

I just want to forward this to everybody!!

Every time you ask for a very-short-Espresso abroad you find it's not short enough...

Although you know that pizza abroad is just something different, you are still looking for it

You ask for a pizza peperoni and wonder why they give you Salami...

At starbucks you ask for "coffe and milk", the bartender asks again "you want a latte?"...
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'90ssssss

Posted 06-30-2008 at 12:46 AM by Guido Gangi
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wow... it's been quite a wile that i am around the europe lookng for something that i do not know what it is..
few day ago I started to download old tracks...

my research cames simply to my '90s music...

wowwww... 10 years back in few clicks...
it's amazing... my memoryes goes to jiovanotti and his lyrics... and the sound...

When I played those tracks i got back to the best time of my life..

listen Puttane e spose... and...
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Tips for Travelling in Italy

Posted 07-26-2009 at 04:57 PM by burntbythetuscansun (Burnt by the Tuscan Sun, The True Story of Living in Italy)

With so many visitors to Italy, I grow a bit tired trying to explain the tipping thing. Time & again. Inside & Out. And, no matter how much I blather, there they go, leaving tips and ruining the market for the rest of us. So, as one of my periodic Public Service Announcements, here it is, YOUR GUIDE TO TRAVELING IN ITALY – TIPPINGDo you? Or, don’t you?
Like any good practices, let’s start with a definition of terms:

TIP: “a gift of money for a service, especially
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Buying my house in Italy

Posted 08-31-2007 at 05:47 PM by paolo

Buying my house in Italy

Finally, now , pushing 50, I finally got my house in Italy. My town of choice was Bolsena.
I always liked that part of the country and the Lake. The lake appears almost out of nowhere on the left going north from Viterbo-Montefiascone. All of a sudden the ladscape chages and commercial buildings disapper to give space to the view of the Lake. Bolsena lake, besided being one of the cleanest in Europe
is just beautiful. Ok It does not have...
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