It's Sunday in Monterotondo and I'm waiting to take the train to Rome. (As well as following the Sydney rugby league grand final between Souths and Canterbury).
I notice that in Italy it is common practice to give streets a name with a date. For example, here there are streets called 20 September, 4 October, 24 May, 25 October, 2 June and 25 April.
The last one interested me because of Anzac Day. Of course it has nothing to do with that, I was told it is the date of the liberation of Italy (or more precisely, Milan and Turin) from the fascists. Mussolini was shot a couple of days later.
A related thing, I met a woman from Sicily who knew all about the nearby town of Gallipoli in the south of Italy, which is apparently a very picturesque and historic town, well worth a visit. She had never heard of Gallipoli in Turkey. The world is different when seen through other people's eyes.
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Are you communicating with these Italians whom you meet in their own language or in English or in a bit of both?
ReplyDeleteA bit of everything. I can buy a coffee, a bus ticket and, with difficulty, book a hotel in Italian, but I need s translator to discuss the meaning of life. Speaking of the latter, I was talking with an English priest yesterday, and we could discuss Souths' win in the grand final
DeleteSt Francis of Assisi's Feast day was the Vigil of the Grand Final. I can picture him more with a bunny than a bulldog. If the secularists can have Christmas in July, then the Bunnies proved to the Bulldogs that you can also have Easter on the first Sunday in October. Just as well that in Australia we keep December and April free for the real religious festivals..
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