Buona Fortuna Italia !!!!

Italia 3 Romania 0

Bravo....

Ciao Tutti

Frank

Wow was I wrong
Italia 1 Romania 1

Se la vi! next... France, hope we can win one game at least.

Che è troppo male! When I saw the original post it was great..then, eh! Francia tied with Romania as well so there's hope.

It'd be great if Italia can stay in - nothing better than being in Italy during Euro 2008.

Ciao Steve
Yes you are very fortunate to be in Italy when these types of soccer matches are going on. I Love the atmosphere.
Well ..a total shocker today for Italia. Toni has to regain his scoring touch or somehow straighten out his head. We have not been capitalizing on our chances, you can’t continue to blame the Italia defense, although Zambrota really messed up today by graciously handing Romania a goal on a sliver platter not his “Tongue”. HA!
I guess our destiny is now in the hands of the Dutch. I hope the Netherlands don’t just lie down, play dead and give the final game away to Romania because they have already qualified.

What’s going on in Nevada these days…are they still progressing with housing developments on the outskirts of Vegas? They had a small boom there for awhile developing and promoting new custom homes for families.

Salve
Frank

Ciao Frank!

Molto bene - another strike by Franco di lingua d'argento! ;-)

Las Vegas has suffered greatly from overbuilding and the sub prime mess. They're having many foreclosures. Northern Nevada has not been as badly affected - housing prices dropped for a while but they seem to be on a mild upward trend. Reno has been blessed with an excellent ristorante - La Famiglia - run by Paolo Gasparo (il cappo) and his family. Paolo is Genovese, perhaps he knows Rambo... This is Paolo's son, Sergio:

Well, I guess I can't show you what Sergio looks like. I'll have to go down to La Familgia and snap a photo of him.

We also have a family, Marco and Lorena Ciurnelli, from Montepulciano that have opened an Italian goods store - ceramiche, lotions and foodstuffs. I go often, buying one or two things, so that I can talk to them about Italia.

That's about it for Nevada.

Ha! Let’s not go there with Rambo; I think we have had enough with that character.
Yes, Nevada is an exciting place hope it regains its form soon to many have suffered during this real estate recession. When, I am not in Calabria and living in Toronto, many go to Vegas on the weekends and a few of my associates invested in the area. I hope they did not get to hurt with the situation.
Wow! Steve.. is life a circle, who would of thought that we be talking to so many people wanting to live life in Italy from North America and the rest of the World. I have get admiration for people like yourself and some of my clients who sold everything back home to move too Italy. This to me and to many other Italians is truly a compliment to our culture in Italy..good or bad we encounter all kinds in this world. What gave you the inspiration and when did you fall in love with Italy?
Frank

Ciao Frank,

It does seem to be a circle, doesn't it. Emigrate to a new land with new opportunities and then try to return to a place that holds your heart.

I have not yet succeeded in convincing mia moglie divina that life in Italy is for us. We made our first visit to Itlay in 2001 and have returned each year. Our trips are limited to 3 weeks because we are afraid our bosses will find out they really don't need us if we are gone longer.

At first, we thought what we like about Italy was the increased humidity (it is often in single digits in Nevada) and the smooth skin we came home with, the food and wine and being in a different place. After a couple of trips we realized that there was much more to it than those surface impressions. We are taken by the reverence Italy and Italians have for their history, by the level of effort that is expended to preserve the manifestations of that history and to continue discovering it.

The American view is that if is something is "old" - over 25 years of age - it is ready to be replaced by something newer (and, sometimes, something worse).

I think that there is also an element of renewal involved. When we travel to Italy we are truly "strangers in a strange land" and it is as if we have a blank slate upon which we can write our life anew.

We are both aware that our experiences as turisti have little in common with everyday life living in Italy. We feel both privileged by that and saddened because we are living in a dream, removed from the reality Italians deal with every day. Recent Italian emigrants tell us that life is better here, they can succeed here where they would be stuck in one place in Italy. Still, each year they return to Italy to see family and breathe again...

And we have heard that, in the villages of Italy, we would face a long and difficult climb to acceptance, if it would ever happen. These are somewhat closed societies that accept us as long as we are turisti but would have no idea what to do with us if we wanted to become part of the community. We would then join that subculture of expats...

So, we live our "Life in Italy" three weeks at a time, spending the other 49 weeks of the year planning for the next trip.

Ciao ciao.

Stefano

Netherlands defeats Francia 4 to 1! Does anyone know whether two or three teams advance from Group C? Does Italia still have a chance if they defeat Francia?

Thank you

Steve

I enjoyed our little chat, very interesting outlook from a different prospective view. I would enjoy listening to comments from other foriegn travellers experience and thoughts on this matter " I think that there is also an element of renewal involved. When we travel to Italy we are truly "strangers in a strange land" and it is as if we have a blank slate upon which we can write our life anew."

of course not in the sports section forum. Let's just say we can settle this score in another forum.
Ha!
Salve
Frank

Forza Italia

Hmm, we did go a tad off topic, didn't we? ;-)