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A Passion for Audrey Hepburn

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:...

“Imagine That!” in the Italian Language

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...

Bold, Beautiful and Dangerous in the Italian Language

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...
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