About Abruzzo

This post isn’t strictly about Abruzzo, but it does reflect an important and obvious aspect of spending time anywhere in Italy; namely the Italian language.

 I think Italian is a beautiful language.  It rises and falls with ideas and emotion.  I have met many English speakers who appear to speak with one tone only but I [...]

My Italian isn’t great. I work at it, but it is far from fluent.  I can hold a basic conversation, and with a mixture of Italian, gestures, stock phases like “I am looking for something that can …” or “What is this called?”, I get by.  I want to get better.  But like anything [...]