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Patti Chiari - Christmas cards and confusion
“Ma siete tutti pazzi!” [“You’re all mad!”] exclaimed my friend Lucia when I told her I intended to spend Wednesday...
Patti Chiari
December 3, 2010
Life + Style
Good morning, Mr. Orange Blossom
How could you not love a place where your dentist’s name translates as “Mrs Clove”, your doctor is “Dr Love”, the...
Patti Chiari
November 26, 2010
Life + Style
Patti Chiari - electoral antics
Reports of a possible early general election in Italy have caused me to remember some of the fun and complications...
Patti Chiari
November 19, 2010
Life + Style
Patti Chiari - A wedding planner with a difference
Visit Giusy Asta’s shop in Modica Bassa and you will find yourself in a treasure trove of “bomboniere”[wedding favors]...
Patti Chiari  -  Weddings
October 29, 2010
Life + Style
Patti Chiari - "You never get old at the table"
It was Rosa, my Albanian cleaner and friend, who saw her first: a little old lady sitting in the passenger seat of a...
Patti Chiari
October 22, 2010
Life + Style
Patti Chiari - Nino Baglieri, unofficial Saint of Modica
I arrived in Modica just two years before the death of Nino Baglieri and I did not know of him until I read of his...
Patti Chiari
October 1, 2010
Life + Style
Patti Chiari - Bold Britons and red earth
A strange aspect of changing your country is that for a while you can lose what I call your “inner barometer”, the part...
Patti Chiari
September 17, 2010
Culture
Patti Chiari - How books brought me to Sicily - part 2
As a student I knew that Pirandello had been born in Kaos, a suburb of Agrigento, but I never thought I would visit his...
Books  -  Patti Chiari
August 30, 2010
Culture
Patti Chiari - How books brought me to Sicily - part 1
Who really knows when a journey towards fulfilment begins? Looking back, I sometimes think that my journey towards the...
Patti Chiari
August 18, 2010
Life + Style
Patti Chiari - The most important man in my life
I’ve mentioned my wonderful hairdresser, Raffaele Falco, before. His salon is where I go for coffee and empathy, a...
Patti Chiari
August 13, 2010
Life + Style
Patti Chiari - Sounds of summer
The sound is still faint but it is definitely there and I have heard it, at dusk, for the past week. Yes, the cigali or...
Patti Chiari
July 2, 2010
Life + Style
“THEY CALL US THE BAMBOCCIONI”
“They call us the bamboccioni”, sighed a student of mine – a pleasant 32-year-old with a law degree and excellent...
Patti Chiari
June 11, 2010
Culture
Patti Chiari - an interview with Gino the artist
Meet Gino Cannata - artist, countryman, cook, grandfather and one of the kindest men I know....
Patti Chiari
May 14, 2010
Life + Style
Patti Chiari - Post Office traumatic stress disorder
If there are two things you should experience before you die, one is the bra stall at Modica market and the other is...
Patti Chiari
May 7, 2010
Life + Style
Patti Chiari - an interview with a Sicilian agronomist
Vittorio is a Sicilian agronomist. He tells us about his job and he has some interesting things to say about Sicilian...
Patti Chiari
April 30, 2010
Life + Style
Patti Chiari - Rosa's miracle and a town with a heart
First these two generals of the household cavalry explained the necessity of going into battle armed with not one but...
Patti Chiari
April 23, 2010
Life + Style
Patti Chiari - Of buying and browsing
One of the differences a British person will immediately notice when shopping in Italy is that there are many stores...
Patti Chiari
April 9, 2010
Culture
Patti Chiari - Easter in Modica
Good Friday is not a holiday in Italy so most of us go about our business much as usual on that day. If you are in...
Patti Chiari
April 1, 2010
Culture
Patti Chiari - an interview with "Il poeta del ponte"
The Modican poet Antonio Lonardo lives in an apartment full of light under the town’s famous Guerrieri Bridge. I first...
Patti Chiari
March 26, 2010
Culture
Patti Chiari - Market day in Modica
You have to be rather an expert at pulling to buy clothes at an Italian market, I’ve discovered, and you also need...
Patti Chiari
March 19, 2010

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