Quotidian Italian

• Ho fatto un Ragù 3 years ago Excuse my absence from the blog lately! With Covid restrictions, not being able to do/ get out much, and the insanity going on in the US I haven’t exactly been inspired to write. But I’m alive! With the new year I’m slowly getting hopeful that things will turn around. With the recent polar...
• Birthday in Borghetto sul Mincio 3 years ago Last week was my 30th (!!!!!!) birthday. Weird. I still feel forever 25 for some reason. The actual day was a weekday so we just went out for a nice dinner, followed by the family celebration the next day (Matteo’s mom has the same birthday!). Then, on the weekend, we had a somewhat...
• Italian Summer 3 years ago Fall has been officially ushered in with a couple of rainy & chilly weeks. After a long, sweltering summer at home, I’m not complaining. We did manage to make a couple of summer escapes. A couple of Saturdays in July we got up early & braved the lake-bound traffic jam towards Garda – sparkling...
• Meet Clio 3 years ago Excuse my prolonged absence from the blog! A lot has been going on this summer. Work started up again even busier than before the lockdown, and an unexpected little monster showed up in our house. This is Clio (pronounced Cleo)! It was an intense week. Coming home one night from dinner, after...
• How to Get a Permesso di Soggiorno for Attesa Occupazione (Awaiting Employment) 3 years ago While I had a bunch of downtime during lockdown, I took the opportunity to write some more practical information posts for anyone interested in that kind of thing. I guess you could consider this a ‘permesso di soggiorno‘ series, the first part being how to get a permit for study. For me this...

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