Enjoy Florence with me : a stunning experience climbing the second biggest dome of Italy, The Brunelleschi dome in Firenze … More The best view from the top of the world : Brunelleschi dome in Florence!
Christmas time in Pistoia, my best wishes to all of you with some food and happy faces … More Buon Natale!
In Italy we are getting the third booster to fight the virus … More Buongiorno world!
No more lockdown in Italy since June 21st: our freedom is finally back! … More No more lockdown since June 21st in Italy
Like Cindarella , since June 7th in yellow Italian regions curfew starts at midnight, then from June 21st it will be abolished finally and hopefully forever … More Like Cinderella : curfew starts at midnight for yellow regions
Since June 1st in Italy we can eat inside a restaurant and sip a coffee inside a café: life is back again! … More Yes , now in Italy we can : have an espresso inside and eat seated inside a restaurant
Happily vaccinated in Tuscany, Italy, the power of the human mind : the science of the knowledge for a new renaissance a rebirth , vaccine is the new hope to travel the world and life again together with others … More Happly vaccinated!
Bo more quarantine, no more curfew so Italy, Tuscany could be free again. Welcome to visitors coning from abroad , tourism and life is back again enjoy Tuscany, Italia and its great artistic heritage and its countryside … More No more curfew , no more quarantine:Italian summer is safe!
No more dead in Pistoia, less restrictions, no more quarantine for travelers fully vaccinated only tampons, vaccination is getting faster and faster a new Renaissance is coming! … More No more dead since two days in Pistoia ~ Tuscany ~ Italia: finally we can see the light!
Fully vaccinated people, tourists from America, United States, could visit and travel Italy, Europe, Tuscany in summer time ! Freedom in an healthy way, let’s toast to this good news … More American and fully vaccinated? Nonessential travels allowed to European Union over the summer 2021!
Italy is not a dangerous place where you can’t travel or visit or stay : having curfew it’s just a precaution to avoid normal people stay outside at night chatting as we were used to do in Italy , for social distance , not because we have terrorism , at least not more than in other part of the world! … More Italy is safe : curfew doesn’t mean we have terrorism
During the quarantine I have read somewhere that one person can get depressed by not putting on makeup and in my opinion I would like to add that it starts even when you are not having your hair done! Since before the lockdown I couldn’t have time to go to the hairdresser: here in Italy … More Let’s re start from the hairdresser & feeling beautiful again!
A message of hope after lockdown from Pistoia Tuscany Italy … More
Less restrictions in Italy post lockdown, freedom no more masks outside, museums are open, no border among Italian regions anymore … More Here Pistoia – Tuscany – Italy Phase #3 started!
be happy we are alive … More Be happy, you are alive!
Feelings about after lockdown , freedom or grotto syndrome? … More Pistoia, Tuscany,Italy May 18th 2020 no more lockdown !
How is the perception of yourself with a mask on your face? I have to tell you that this made a great difference to me. I was thinking about the Italian saying : put you face on it ! It means you sign something with your personality, your own mark . This is not more … More How ,just a mask,can change your own perception
My good friend Sylvia Zarr from New York decided to donate pizzas and a typical American dessert homemade “brownies” to the nurses of the new Covid19 department located in the city center of Pistoia in Via della Crocetta. Sylvia ordered them through my husband restaurant pizzeria in Pistoia, Il Pollo d’oro. I went personally to … More A generous gesture from New York to Pistoia
The Spanish flu of 1918 in Cunnigan in Colorado as an example for us in Italy and in the world to fight to Covid19 Corona Virus : self isolation , stay at home , stay safe follow the lesson coming from the past … More Lesson from the past : self isolation is the best antidote against the new plague Covit19
Warning : coronavirus is very dangerous , don’t understimate it!
Follow the Chinese example : stay at home , isolation is the bes remedy … More I'm sorry,I apologize: Italy is in blockdown now
Italy is safe Tuscany is safe Pistoia Florence are safe visit Italy we are not the virus we are stronger than it! Don’t worry we are safe ! Book your holiday in Italy … More Italy is SAFE, Tuscany is safe, Florence is safe!Pistoia is safe!
This morning I was prepearing lasagne for tomorrow lunch to celebrate my daughter 18th birthday at home, and was thinking the importance of cooking for someone you love, thinking of her/him/them while you are doing this . Both my daughter & me decided to do it at home not just because it is the best … More Food & feelings about cooking
Yes, I miss London as a friend who lives far from me but who stays in my heart everyday, every moment of my life. London has a special place in my mind : live its big streets, its multicolour windows, its shops & its smells around different world’s cultures & kitchens ! Miss the curry … More Missing London in Christmas time
I love my birtplace Pistoia, as a part of myself, althought I wanted to escape from her when I was young as I thought it was too small , too NOT open mind for the big dreams I had..after many years I fell in love with her just because I have been so fortunate … More Why Pistoia ? my interview to American expats who decided to live here.
Can’t tell you I love Christmas ,I am sorry but I have to be sincere with you & most of all with myself .Don’t like it since my parents got divorced & so Christmas became another occasion for sorrow, reminding me how happier were the other united families during this period of the year , … More …and yes, finally Christmas is over!
Can’t tell you I love Christmas ,I am sorry but I have to be sincere with you & most of all with myself .Don’t like it since my parents got divorced & so Christmas became another occasion for sorrow, reminding me how happier were the other united families during this period of the year , … More …and yes, finally Christmas is over!
I would like to ask you if you miss, sometime or very often ☺️, a city as much as I miss London. To me it is a kind of nostalghia or , as I learned in Portugal , the “saudade” a strange , deep feeling inside your stomac, in your heart growing every day a … More London to me : missing a city as a person,is it possible ?
Some friends, some food ( of course! ) some drink, a lot of music & fun & people of every age around us : teens , as my daugther ( that was there too arrived 7 hours 😱😱😱before the beginning with her friends) & middle age people,as us😊😊 http://www.tizianoferro.com Tiziano Ferro is a young Italian … More Florence stadium : Tiziano Ferro concert & his gay pride
I am going to tell you the story of ….. ….once upon a time there was a Tuscan girl who dreamt about living abroad & leave her small town for a big metropolis , as London, forgetting about her past & starting a new life far away from her birthplace… 30 years later this girl … More My Tuscany’s Tale: Volterra & 50 shades of green
You know I love this city as I could love a friend or a man or a mother who gives you life Love it because it is a shining gem Inside myself It knocks every day at ️my heart’s door and I answer Yes, here I am Here you are Nothing changes if nothing changes … More London to me
Thank you for sharing my feelings , pictures & some words about what I see , discover, love! My next aim in this new year Will be to share with you The best Of my little town in Tuscany , Pistoia : an hidden gem squeezed between The well known Florence & Lucca and all … More New year , New ideas
Last year I met many different kind of people from everywhere .. I shared with them my passion for food, shopping and art and for The great addentare Of travelling! But most of all The pleasure to stay together on The same way , same street , different language , same heart I’ve met a … More A New year , New things I’ve learned
I am so sorry but I have to start writing in Italian as I have to tell you my “love story” with London city, so I need to use my mother tongue language to describe at its best my feelings . I will try to add an English translation to my next Italian posts so … More My love story with LONDON – 1st chapter
It was a strange feeling receiving This book from My mom’s hand as a present : my aunt wrote a book about her life and her past. This book tells part Of My family history maybe The most unknown , My father’s side . I knew something but not all That I Found in this: … More When your aunt writes a book
I did this mind of Brownies filled with a mascarpone cheese cream : it was really delicious and very very creamy ! The Tiramisu Made by another guest was superb : light and tasty not too sweeted was The best end Of The lunch😍👍👍👏👏👏 A flûte Of Brachetto ( sweet sparkling Italian wine) was a … More Tuscan lunch by friends
A day in Florence with My friends :ladies only soooo….as you can imagine ~ or maybe NOT ~ lots of windows shopping, laughs , cappuccino, cakes, luncheon in a cool restaurant, shopping !!yes again , spending money not just looking 😜😜Walking a lot, talking too much about many subjects, never too tired never fed up … More Strolling in Florence with friends
Non restare a piangere sulla mia tomba. Non sono lì, non dormo. Sono mille venti che soffiano. Sono la scintilla diamante sulla neve. Sono la luce del sole sul grano maturo. Sono la pioggerellina d’autunno. Quando ti svegli nella quiete del mattino… Sono le stelle che brillano la notte. Non restare a piangere sulla mia … More Non restare a piangere..
La morte non è niente. Sono solamente passato dall’altra parte: è come fossi nascosto nella stanza accanto. Io sono sempre io e tu sei sempre tu. Quello che eravamo prima l’uno per l’altro lo siamo ancora. Chiamami con il nome che mi hai sempre dato, che ti è familiare; parlami nello stesso modo affettuoso che … More LA MORTE NON È NIENTE – S.Agostino
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because … More A poem : He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by William Butler Yeats
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