by Dianne Hales | Aug 6, 2019 | Books, books on Italy, culture, Film, history, Italy, Language, Music, Romance, Rome, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Who doesn’t love Audrey Hepburn? I certainly do—and I was tickled that Olivia Páez included LA PASSIONE in her bookriot.com blog on books for fans of Audrey Hepburn. Here is an excerpt on books that remind her of my personal Audrey Hepburn favorite, Roman Holiday:...
by DHales | Mar 12, 2012 | Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Figurati! Just imagine! For years when my Italian friends punctuated our conversations with the exclamation, “Figurati!”, I loosely translated the phrase as “Go figure!” While I wasn’t completely off the mark, I didn’t get it quite right. Depending...
by DHales | Jan 26, 2012 | Current Affairs, Italy, Language, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
La bella figura A few years ago we set off to sail the islands (le isole) of the Tuscan archipelago with some mariner friends. After a few hours on the sky-blue Tyrrhenian sea (Mare Tirreno), my husband Bob (Roberto in Italy) broke out a bottle of champagne for a...
