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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...

December 3, 2010

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...

November 26, 2010

Patti Chiari - electoral antics

Reports of a possible early general election in Italy have caused me to remember some of the fun and complications...

November 19, 2010

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

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...

October 22, 2010

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...

October 1, 2010

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...

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...

August 18, 2010

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...

August 13, 2010

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...

“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...

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Of buying and browsing

One of the differences a British person will immediately notice when shopping in Italy is that there are many stores...

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...

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...

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...

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