Oh, how I miss all things bargain-priced. The Euro-Dollar exchange rate can be a killer, so I have a biannual event that I always look forward to: SALDI! Saldi (sales) happen twice a year in Italy and they are a HUGE deal. There are very strict laws governing the timing and labeling requirements for sales […]
Category Archives: Life in Italy
You know it’s hot when the nuns start breaking out their baseball caps.
I was walking to the market one day and I stopped dead in my tracks, staring open-mouthed at a billboard that read: I went back to take a picture the next day, but it had been plastered over by an advertisement for a new low-cost washing machine. Oh well, I figured, it must have been […]
One of the best things about living in Italy is getting lost. Rome is not a city built on a grid. Streets you think are parallel end up leading you astray, and the network of small alleys and hard-to-find street signs is a recipe for “where the hell are we!? I thought Piazza Trilussa was […]
File this under things I will never get used to: shelf milk. Walk into any Italian supermarket and you will be greeted by a refrigerator section filled with more types of cured ham than you can shake a stick at. Browse the rows of cheeses, take in all the yogurts, but if you’re looking for […]
Christine, who lives in Florence and is the expat behind Ciao, Christy has started a “La Dolce Vita” series on her blog and encouraged all of us English language bloggers to write about our own sweet lives in Italy. I can, and do, complain about the crazy bureaucracy involved with living in Italy. I miss […]
The best way to learn Italian is not going to work for me. Yes, I live in Italy. Yes, I met my boyfriend in Rome. And yes, we both speak English and enjoy eggs for breakfast. I would still love to improve my Italian, so I was thrilled to find dual language books with Italian […]
Sometimes the brand names in Italy are hi-larious. Yes. Yes I would like to use bum bum on all my eating utensils. Sold.