by DHales | Jun 21, 2016 | Books, culture, Fashion, Film, Food and Drink, history, Italy, Language, Music, Romance, Rome, Social behavior, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Cari amici, I'm delighted to announce an exciting new project: a book on the alluring subject of Italian passions. Here is the official release from Publishers Marketplace: "Author of the New York Times best-selling LA BELLA LINGUA, Dianne Hales'...
by DHales | Oct 11, 2015 | Books, culture, Fashion, Italy, Language, Social behavior, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
La sfilata di moda The Fashion Show I’ve never been a fashionista or a modaiola (trendy fashion victim), but I was enchanted by le immagini (the images) from Dolce & Gabbana’s 2016 collezione primavera-estate (spring-summer collection) in Milan, Italy’s capitale...
by DHales | Feb 6, 2015 | art, Books, culture, Fashion, Florence, Italy, Language, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
In this guest blog, Susan Van Allen, author of the bestselling 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go, introduces five of her Florentine favorites: 1. Botticelli Room in the Uffizi Gallery I love arriving here and settling into...
by DHales | May 17, 2013 | culture, Fashion, Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
L'età del fascino The Age of Charm Meglio belli o meglio affascinanti? Better to be beautiful or better to be fascinating? This was the delicious question posed in an Italian newspaper’s column on “dilemmi beauty.” A recent survey asked some two thousand American...
by DHales | Jan 28, 2013 | Fashion, Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
la frangia fringe–or "bangs" Forget the inauguration (insediamento). The whole world is talking about what President Barack Obama called “the most significant event” (l'evento più significativo) of last week: his wife Michelle’s new hair-do...
by DHales | Nov 18, 2012 | Current Affairs, Fashion, Italy, Language, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
l’alluvione, l'inondazione the flood Un paese in ginocchio (a town on its knees). Manca tutto: luce, acqua, gas. (Lacking everything: light, water, gas). Gli unici mezzi di trasporto gommoni e motoscafi (the only means of transportation dinghies and...
