For years we had trouble registering with the Chamber of Commerce. I'll spare you the details but basically the problem was the category we are working in doesn't exist at the Chamber so no registration possible. All despite the fact that we have been doing this work...
Only in Italy could they have invented this, coffee addicted as many here are. Coffee you can put in your pocket? Yes really. Let me explain. When you turn on the radio chances are high you'll hear a commercial for 'Pocket Coffee'. You hear a lady singing, she stops...
Years ago I worked with this lovely man who created some walls, terraces and a small building on site where I live. I had been working on the same projects as well as a 'facchino', one who carries stuff around (in this case building sand and stones, lots and lots of...
It took some time but it now is official, March 17 has been declared a national holiday in Italy celebrating the 150th anniversary of its unification. Some Italians are/were not so sure if this is a cause for celebration but there it is. Only this year. Now in Italy...
Oh Dio, oh dio, the old lady muttered while she slowly climbed the hill zigzagging from left to right. Drunk? No, it was caused by a dog. You see, our neighbours have a guest these days, a young dog owned by someone in the family. It is a nice dog and has got all the...
GMB isn't a name that gives me hope of finding delectable cakes, tarts and other good things. GMB to me sounds more like something participants in the annual Tour de France use to find some extra pedalpower, or it sounds like a builder of offroad motorbikes. However I...
As every year around this time the neighbours had their pig brought to their house to cut it up and transform it into salumi, sausages, capocollo, pancetta, ribs and chops. Not because they jumped on the nose-to-tail bandwagon but...
So we had peracottaio and today we give you cioccolataio. A cioccolataio is someone who makes and sells chocolate. 'Fare una figura da cioccolataio' means leaving a bad impression (fare brutta figura). There is a nice story attached to this. A cioccolataio had done...
Didn't hear this one before but it already is a favourite. 'Pere cotte' are, well you guessed it, cooked pears, easy uh? Now how would you call someone who sells cooked pears? Yes a peracottaio! This leads to the proverb, "fare la figura del peracottaio", meaning...
The wildboar hunting season has ended, so time for the annual final wildboar hunters dinner. The hunters' cabin is in an old bongo type building and can only be reached by driving quite some distance over an unaspahalted bendy road. The welcome was warm as ever. Funny...
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