The usual Sunday review was postponed on Monday, as yesterday was Christmas and it can be a very demanding day for Italians 😂 I’m still trying to digest all the food I ate, it might take a bit to fully recover 😂😂
I hope you had a nice and relaxing Christmas day and I wish you all HAPPY HOLIDAYS!❤
First of all, thank you guys for the amount of love I have been receiving for this series ❤ Even Italians have appreciated it, telling me it’s insightful and on point, and so I’m obviously relieved and happy as native people can be the harshest critics! Thank God, I have yet to enrage my compatriots 😂
On Tuesday I decided to write a bit about Italian cafès and their various “rules”. I have been reading around blogs some “rules”, which are not completely right and so I figured the pov of a native would have been useful.I completely get where they come from, but some clarifications needed to be done. Enjoy!
Hi guys,
here I am with the weekly Instagram review!
On Monday I wanted to focus my attention on the infamous Constitutional Referendum we had to vote for on Dec.4th and now I want to specify some things in here as well. I decided to dedicate an instagram post to it, mainly because of the things I was reading in foreign newspapers in the immediate aftermath. Let me make things clear: “No” was NOT a vote for the so-called “Italexit”. This Referendum had nothing to do with the EU. Sadly, some countries that are dealing with EU secessionist movements decided to write in their newspapers that this Italian “NO” was cumulative evidence of the fact that EU is failing and that people want to leave. Well, no. We surely have a few political parties that are proactively against the Union, but THIS referendum was entirely an INTERNAL matter. People who voted “no” did that for mainly two reasons:
I won’t comment on voters and the final result, I just wanted to point out that there are false news that are spreading around.
I think that what happened is a valid and useful lesson for the future, though: don’t trust everything people say, let’s check multiple sources of information and develop a critic opinion before judging. This is valid for every aspect of our lives.
Thanks for the attention. Enjoy the review 🙂
Since the very beginning the purpose of this challenge was to share facts which are slightly different and less obvious from the common stories you hear about Italy basically everyday.
So this past week I have the decided to start with Italian poetry, which I guess is not very well-know for the obvious language barrier, for then examining a few legends behind some of the most high-trafficked cities and famous tourist spots and concluding with our usual culinary Sunday!
Enjoy and, if you’d like me to post about a particular topic I have yet to write about, ask in a comment below! 😉
Continue reading “Fall: why this is the best time to visit Italy”
Here I am with the usual review of my Italian facts shared on Instagram during the week! 80 days to go, I can do it!!
Next post in here will be about autumn in Italy. See you around!
Lots of food and beverages this week, but this is how we Italians work, eh!
Enjoy!
This is not a really good period for Italy: newscasts and headlines tell about a country that is dealing with a scary earthquake, the immigrants crisis, the lack of work and the dreadful constitutional referendum. Lately it’s not easy finding hope for us Italians.
For this reason, I decided to start a challenge on instagram called #100ItalyFacts in order to remind myself what’s good in Italy and also to share interesting aspects of my country to people who would like to know more about it. I will post everyday for 100 days a photo and a caption which will focus on a particular aspect of the Belpaese. They are tidbits which, hopefully, will open small windows on less known aspects of the Italian culture. If you are interested, follow me on instagram or read a weekly summary I will post here on Sundays.
Here there is the first recap!
My Dear Italia 