Weekly blogpost

Every Monday a new blogpost about my all my adventures and observations in Italy!

#61 Trenta (English)

Every year again, when most people are still recovering from all the holidays with their bellies eaten round (and sometimes a slight hangover), my party actually only just starts as my birthday is on the second of January. As my family and friends know by now, I’m not the kind of person who prefers to …

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#61 Trenta (Nederlands)

Ieder jaar weer, als de meeste mensen nog met rond gegeten buiken (en soms een lichtelijke kater) aan het bijkomen zijn van alle feestdagen, begint mijn feestje eigenlijk pas. Want twee januari is mijn verjaardag. Zoals mijn familie en vrienden inmiddels wel weten, ben ik nou niet zo iemand die haar verjaardag het liefst zonder …

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#61 Trenta (Italiano)

Ogni anno, quando la maggior parte delle persone si sta ancora riprendendo da tutte le feste con la pancia rotonda da tutto il cibo (e a volte con una leggera sbornia), la mia festa in realtà sta solo iniziando. Come mai? Il due gennaio è il mio compleanno. Come la mia famiglia e i miei …

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#60 The Roaring Twenties (English)

Happy New Year! Buon anno nuovo! No doubt it will sound different when we’ll say this Thursday night, or actually Friday when the day will only be a few minutes old. This year, the message will come from deep within us and it will be spoken with more emphasis. Wishing the other a healthy New Year has …

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#60 The Roaring Twenties (Nederlands)

Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! Buon anno nuovo! Het zal anders klinken dan anders wanneer we dit donderdagavond, of eigenlijk vrijdag wanneer de dag nog maar enkele minuten oud is, roepen. Het zal van dieper komen en met meer nadruk worden uitgesproken. De ander een gezond nieuwjaar wensen heeft opeens een hele nieuwe lading gekregen. Want goeie genade 2020, wat …

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#60 The Roaring Twenties (Italiano)

Buon anno nuovo! Senza dubbio suona in modo diverso quando diremo questo augurio giovedì sera, o in realtà venerdì quando il nuovo anno sarà solo di pochi minuti. Quest’anno il messaggio verrà dal profondo del nostro cuore e sarà detto con più enfasi. Augurare all’altro un sano anno nuovo ha improvvisamente assunto un significato completamente nuovo. …

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#59 A red Christmas (English)

In three days’ time, it will be Christmas Eve. And for most of us, it is probably going to be the strangest Christmas ever. After the news about the strict measures in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom was widely reported in the Italian media, the Italians were impatiently awaiting the verdict that Prime …

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#59 Een rode kerst (Nederlands)

Over drie dagen is het kerstavond. En voor de meesten van ons gaat het waarschijnlijk de meest gekke kerst ooit worden. Nederland in een totale lockdown. En nadat de berichten over de strenge maatregelen in onder andere Nederland, Duitsland en het Verenigd Koninkrijk al breed uitgemeten werden in de Italiaanse media was het ongeduldig wachten op …

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#59 Un Natale rosso (Italiano)

Tra tre giorni sarà la vigilia di Natale. E per tutti, sarà probabilmente il Natale più strano di sempre. Dopo che la notizia delle severe misure adottate nei Paesi Bassi, in Germania e nel Regno Unito è stata ampiamente riportata dai media italiani, gli italiani attendevano con impazienza il verdetto che il Primo Ministro Conte …

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#58 The Ten Christmas Lunch Commandments (English)

With both Dutch and Italian news apps on my phone, last week was a bustle of breaking news push notifications. There’s no need to even mention the cause of this stream of news messages, as we all know it all too well unfortunately. The general message in all these news updates was clear: things are not going …

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