Homesickness
#46
Re: Homesickness
He'll be at the Internazionale conference weekend in Ferrara next month so I'm going to try and speak to him and give him a damn good talking to!
#47
Re: Homesickness
So when we've been here 30 years we'll feel like foreigners in the UK and Italy ? We'll need a whole new section of the forum for '' OLD EXPATS '' where we can moan about how things used to be !
#49
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Re: Homesickness
How do we get this guy to speak to us? I only read 3 pages of his blog and decided that he doesn't know that there are more speed bumps in my tiny Italian village than in my home town in the UK.
I would have been more than happy to put reigns on my kids here if they only existed - to stop any chance of them running out into the path of a super speeding Italian driven car or getting run over on the so called zebra crossing. It's not about trusting your kids. It's about not trusting the other drivers !!!
I would have been more than happy to put reigns on my kids here if they only existed - to stop any chance of them running out into the path of a super speeding Italian driven car or getting run over on the so called zebra crossing. It's not about trusting your kids. It's about not trusting the other drivers !!!
many of our "pedestrian crossings" are invisible being covered in dirt, melted road and melted tyres.
and the vast majority don't have a warning sign Xmetres before hand, infact they don't have any sign even at the crossing.
and many drivers will drive behind you whilst still walking on the crossing.
#50
Re: Homesickness
..ononno?
#51
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Location: Puglia, Umbria and London
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Re: Homesickness
I have lived in Italy on and off (mostly off) for 41 years, personally I don't understand how anyone could or would want to become italianizzato, to me personally, it would feel like a betrayal of my roots. One of my sons lives here and his mentality is very Italian, the other two live in London and Belgium. Getting into his car my "Italian" son told me not to bother wearing my seat belt in town, what's the point, he said. The "English" son looked at him askance and said "are you mad?". Town or not, I'd prefer not to plaster my face to your windscreen thanks was my reply.
#52
Re: Homesickness
Don't be silly Pat, the windscreen is there to help you. If it weren't you'd go flying out of the car and ruin your barnet.
#53
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Re: Homesickness
ciao for now,
'o nonno
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#54
Re: Homesickness
I suppose the up-side to is is that you can feel 'comfortable' in both places.
In fact the downer comes when you feel like a 'foreigner' in either place.
It's complicated.
In fact the downer comes when you feel like a 'foreigner' in either place.
It's complicated.
#57
Re: Homesickness
Sort of on the subject of homesickness, going back etc..
http://www.internazionale.it/opinion...ro-a-casa-mia/
http://www.internazionale.it/opinion...ro-a-casa-mia/
#58
Re: Homesickness
Pecora. http://www.internazionale.it/opinioni/lee-marshall/
he writes for Internazionale but I don't know if he has his own blog (in English..) I see he does quite a bit of travel writing too.
http://www.travelintelligence.com/tr...s/lee-marshall
"He went there (Rome) straight from Cambridge to avoid getting a serious job; the avoidance continues to this day."
he writes for Internazionale but I don't know if he has his own blog (in English..) I see he does quite a bit of travel writing too.
http://www.travelintelligence.com/tr...s/lee-marshall
"He went there (Rome) straight from Cambridge to avoid getting a serious job; the avoidance continues to this day."
Last edited by MarkRD; Sep 21st 2012 at 9:45 am. Reason: **
#59
Re: Homesickness
well I can't be easy for him , constantly travelling about to rate luxury hotels , trying out new eateries , keeping up the banter must be exhausting . I guess it all depends on what you consider a serious job ...
#60
Re: Homesickness
Well you know these Cambridge types . ."serious" job means civil servant, research fellow, something at some ministry ... No chance of any of those in Rome I suppose.