Tag: erasmus
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Verona: More than a cliché?
When I made the decision to write during my year abroad, I made one simple promise to myself: Do not become a ‘What to do in X, Y, Z in 24 hours’ writer. I vowed to find most the interesting and unexplored sides of cities and divulge those instead. However, there are ordinary cities and…
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An Ode to Pizza
An ode to pizza, my greasy friend, I never want the last bite to end. You always surprise me with something new, yet never once have I uttered: “I’ve bitten off more than I can chew!” The perfect combination of tomato and cheese, complemented so perfectly by a topping of zucchini. With chili oil or…
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The Law of Espresso
Italy produces over 13 thousand tonnes of spaghetti every year, churns out two million swimming pools of Nutella and drinks the most espressos in the world. Right? Well, for a country that finances itself through its stereotypes, it’s doing a pretty poor job of seeing them through. Contrary to popular belief, Italy is only the…
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Una piccola introduzione
I’ve always found the concept of writing a blog relatively strange. The likelihood of anyone apart from family and friends reading has always been extremely low in my mind. Not to start with a pessimistic tone, but purely because they will have been the unlucky ones to have been bombarded with emails or texts containing…
Not Sophia Loren 