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Living The Dream? Posted by Geoff on Sep 10, 2018
Every now and then, inexperienced visitors to the beautiful part of Italy where I live tell me: “You’re living the dream!” A statement which I find difficult to respond to. I guess my instinctive response would be: “No, I’m living the reality”. But that would entail long and complicated cultural explanations which would, for the…
Fidarsi – Part 1 Posted by Serena on Jun 15, 2010
I recently wrote a couple of articles about Italian detti (‘sayings’. See: ‘Una Mela al Giorno’). Here is another well known ‘detto’ that perhaps reflects one of the negative sides of the Italian character: ‘Fidarsi è bene, non fidarsi è meglio’ (‘to trust is good, not to trust is better’). I have never particularly liked…