Showing posts with label Bergamo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bergamo. Show all posts
Saturday, 19 February 2022

Visit Bergamo

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My brother PJ has a friend, or at least an acquaintance, who will visit Italy soon and will be in and around the city of Bergamo . As this ...
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Wednesday, 29 July 2020

The Bergamo Connection

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Thanks to social media, I had the chance to chat recently to my Italian friend who lives in Bergamo , one of the most beautiful cities I hav...
Wednesday, 11 March 2020

Italy during the Plague

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I am a tad melodramatic, but judging by the news , this must be how it feels like in Italy while the coronavirus is running wild, or so it s...
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Thursday, 7 February 2019

Italian friendship

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A few days ago, I was chatting to my Italian friend over Messenger. She is a friend I met during my first year at uni in this country and is...
Sunday, 9 August 2015

Longing for Bergamo

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I was thinking about it recently: it has been almost fifteen years since my first (and last) trip to Italy. And thinking about it made me re...
Sunday, 20 July 2014

The world in Bergamo

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I am uploading another picture my Italian friend sent me of the terrestrial globe in her parent's house in Bergamo . I obsessed about th...
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Sunday, 6 July 2014

The world, viewed from Italy

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I am blogging again about this terrestrial globe owned by the family of my Italian friend (one of my Italian friends), from Bergamo , Italy...
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Sunday, 29 June 2014

Arvida seen from Italy

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I blogged two years ago about a terrestrial globe in my Italian friend's family home in Bergamo . Well, she was kind enough to take pict...
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Wednesday, 6 March 2013

An Italian anecdote

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This is a story that happened to me in a bar specialised in foreign beers in Bergamo . A great place to be for a beer lover like me, as Ital...
Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Learning Italian (at last!)

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After more than a year of procastination, I have finally decided to be focused, disciplined and to learn Italian: my mum had bought me this ...
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012

An anecdote about Arvida and Bergamo

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I finished reading Arvida today, on the journey back from work. As my francophone readers know, it was written by my cousin, who is apparent...
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Saturday, 7 January 2012

I have an Italian name

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I was thinking about it when I heard the local radio making a massacre of my name after the radio play : I actually have an Italian name. M...
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Saturday, 17 December 2011

An image of Bergamo

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I have an Italian friend (well, the Italian friend I mention here) who is from Bergamo , which I visited. I have seen little of Italy, which...
Sunday, 27 March 2011

Music from northern Italy

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It is a beautiful spring day today. I thought I would put some springtime music here. I first heard La Bergamasca or Il Giardino Armorico ...
Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Where could I live?

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I thought about this yesterday: I have seen a number of places in my life, towns and cities, both as a resident and as a tourist. I was wond...
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