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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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Met zowel Nederlandse als Italiaanse nieuwsapps op mijn telefoon, was het afgelopen week een drukte van jewelste aan breaking news push notificaties. Het is overbodig de oorzaak van deze stroom aan nieuwsberichten te benoemen, want dat is ons allemaal helaas maar al te goed bekend. De strekking van de berichten was dan ook in feite: het gaat …
Con le app di notizie sia olandesi che italiane sul mio telefono, la scorsa settimana è stato un viavai di notifiche push delle ultime notizie. Non c’è nemmeno bisogno di menzionare la causa di questo flusso di messaggi di notizie, perché tutti noi lo sappiamo troppo bene, purtroppo. Il messaggio generale in tutti questi aggiornamenti delle notizie …
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Last week I was waiting at the bus stop. There were seven people in total. Three of them were nuns and one was a priest. The priest was casually scrolling on his iPhone while the three nuns were giggling trying to cram themselves under one umbrella as it was pouring. A pretty ordinary scene in …