Two posts today!
Heather is learning Italian properly (she is already fluent in French) but I am learning just to get by - to be polite eg Posso fare una foto? to ask for what I want and pay for it, decipher labels and sell-by dates and figure out which milk is which, and generally find my way around. So I photograph street signs to help me remember my way home...
Heather is learning Italian properly (she is already fluent in French) but I am learning just to get by - to be polite eg Posso fare una foto? to ask for what I want and pay for it, decipher labels and sell-by dates and figure out which milk is which, and generally find my way around. So I photograph street signs to help me remember my way home...
I love this name! Piazza of the Madonna of the Vegetable Garden.
For noting places I will want to go back to...
And just to know what's going on. The Tiepolo in the Church of Santa Maria di Nazareth will have to wait.
I try to translate the newspaper headlines..
Anti-virus panini anyone?
Sometimes I am just curious and photograph a sign to translate later. I don't expect this vocabulary to be especially useful to me, but I really wanted to know what it said! (Construction company boat. Mooring banned.)
Now of course there are all the coronavirus notices to translate too! Erla Zwingle in her blog I Am Not Making This Up has helped us out here with a detailed post on the current situation.
Please note -
we can go out
people can go to work
people can walk their dogs
we can go shopping
we can go to the cafe (until 6pm)
we can go to the restaurants (until 6pm)
Today's 2nd post is sure to make you giggle!
Be well.
Please note -
we can go out
people can go to work
people can walk their dogs
we can go shopping
we can go to the cafe (until 6pm)
we can go to the restaurants (until 6pm)
Today's 2nd post is sure to make you giggle!
Be well.
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