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I wish I was at the Caffe’ San Marco in Triest now…
…I could assist to a very interesting event. The “Premio Speciale Scritture di Frontiera” will be awarded tonight in a place I love and where I spent hours and hours preparing my exams, the Caffe’ San...
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san nicolo’, san nicola, st.nikolaus…baltic-adriatic tradition
Blue sky, wind and sun today in Rome after the heavy rains of this week, and those tons of white hail mixed with multi-storms. Crazy weather, but nice and sunny for San Nicolo’…I am celebrating it...
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italian surrealpolitik
A few posts ago I referred to the clash between Italy and Slovenia on the never ending story of “war reparations”. The Adriatic is definitely a solid frontier. On Deutsche Welle I was impressed by the...
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the pataccari of history
Have you ever been tempted by that fake handbag while strolling in Florence? Did you glance at that remarkably well reproduced Rolex in a Capri pizzeria at dessert time? There’s much more on offer in...
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here it is forbidden to talk
If my eyes belong to Rome, in today’s crystalline light, maybe my ears listen to Berlin, cuddled up in the green silence embracing the town. But I breath in Triest, where the wind carries the perfume...
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Word of the day for home consumption: “New Town”
After every disaster in Italy we witness the emergence of a neologism. After the Vajont, it was invaso, an engineeristic-voyeuristic term for basin. After the Tesero hydrogeological disaster it was...
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someone fit the key(nes) brick, please!
On the bora.la website, my favourite place as far as Mitteleuropean métissage is concerned, I read an interesting panoramique by Julius Franzot on the forthcoming german elections. This synthesis is a...
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TriestBerlinExpress!
The BerlinRomExpress is for the moment only a blog and not a reality. Yet now there is an Autozug linking Triest to Berlin! From the beach of Triest to the beach of Berlin…Wannsee! Am Autozug-Bahnhof...
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A Triestiner: Claudio Magris
Magris spent most of his life living near the Iron Curtain Italian author Claudio Magris has been awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade on Sunday. DW spoke with the literary giant about...
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NEMBY = nuclear emergency definitely in your backyard! did you know that?
A few months ago I remember spotting at the Town Hall tourist office of my home town Triest among many colorful booklets also a brochure called “Nuclear emergency plan”. Triest is a port and very...
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