Finalmente ciò che tutti stavate aspettando:
LA LISTA COZZE!!!
Opzione numero uno:
Abbiamo selezionato alcune cose che ci piacciono molto, oggetti che vorremmo avere con noi negli anni a venire e che ci ricordino il giorno del nostro matrimonio, tutti gli amici e i familiari che condividono con noi la nostra grandissima gioia. Collegatevi ai seguenti siti web e scegliete qualsiasi cosa vi piaccia:
http://thegoodchina.com/. Qui troverete la nostra scelta di piatti, posate e bicchieri, oggetti preziosi che ci godremo assieme ad ognuno di voi, appena verrete a trovarci per cena. Dalla barra del menu principale, cliccate su ‘Registry’, inserite il nome di uno degli sposi e fate la vostra scelta.
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/. Qui troverete la nostra selezione di oggetti da cucina indispensabili, cose semplici che ci accompagneranno nella vita di ogni giorno. Dalla barra del menu principale, cliccate su ‘Registry’, poi ‘Find Registry’, inserite il nome di uno degli sposi e fate la vostra scelta. PURTROPPO ci e' stato appena segnalato dall'amico Enzo che questa lista funziona solo con carte di credito americane... :(
Opzione numero due:
Una delle nostre passioni nella vita è la musica e pensiamo che una casa non possa essere realmente definita tale se non c’è un pianoforte che suona la nostra musica preferita. Di conseguenza ci piacerebbe comprare un pianoforte per la nostra nuova casa di Washington. Se desiderate aiutarci a realizzare questo sogno, contribuite con qualunque somma desiderate. Vi terremo informati sul pianoforte che decideremo di acquistare e vi aspettiamo presto per fare un po’ di musica insieme.
Grazie di cuore!
Antonia e Marco
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
THE REGISTRY
Finally what you all have been waiting for:
THE WEDDING REGISTRY!!!
Option One:
We have selected a few things we really like, items that we would like to have with us for the years to come as a memory of our wedding day, of all the friends and family who share our greatest joy.
Please, log on one of the following websites and choose whatever you like, if you wish to do so:
http://thegoodchina.com. Here you’ll find our selection of dinnerware, flatware and stemware, precious items that we’ll enjoy together when we’ll be treating each of you to a nice dinner. Select ‘Registry’ from the main menu bar, type in the name of either of the spouses and make your purchase.
http://www.williams-sonoma.com. Here you’ll find our selection of indispensable kitchenware, simple things that will be with us every day. Select ‘Registry’ from the main menu bar, then ‘Find Registry,’ type in the name of either of the spouses and make your purchase.
Option Two:
One of our passions in life is music and we feel that no place can be really called home unless there’s a piano there playing our favorite music. Accordingly, we’ve been dreaming about having a piano in our new home in Washington, DC. If you wish to help us fulfill this dream of ours, please just contribute whatever amount you wish. We’ll let you know about our final purchase and will be happy to make music together some time soon.
Grazie di cuore!
Antonia & Marco
THE WEDDING REGISTRY!!!
Option One:
We have selected a few things we really like, items that we would like to have with us for the years to come as a memory of our wedding day, of all the friends and family who share our greatest joy.
Please, log on one of the following websites and choose whatever you like, if you wish to do so:
http://thegoodchina.com. Here you’ll find our selection of dinnerware, flatware and stemware, precious items that we’ll enjoy together when we’ll be treating each of you to a nice dinner. Select ‘Registry’ from the main menu bar, type in the name of either of the spouses and make your purchase.
http://www.williams-sonoma.com. Here you’ll find our selection of indispensable kitchenware, simple things that will be with us every day. Select ‘Registry’ from the main menu bar, then ‘Find Registry,’ type in the name of either of the spouses and make your purchase.
Option Two:
One of our passions in life is music and we feel that no place can be really called home unless there’s a piano there playing our favorite music. Accordingly, we’ve been dreaming about having a piano in our new home in Washington, DC. If you wish to help us fulfill this dream of ours, please just contribute whatever amount you wish. We’ll let you know about our final purchase and will be happy to make music together some time soon.
Grazie di cuore!
Antonia & Marco
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Cuisine and gastronomy of Bari
Bari's cuisine, one of Italy's most traditional and noteworthy, is based on three typical agricultural products found within the surrounding Puglia region, namely wheat, olive oil and wine. Bari cuisine is also enriched by the wide variety of fruit and vegetables produced locally. Local flour is used in homemade bread and pasta production including, most notably, the famous orecchiette hat-shaped pasta, recchietelle or strascinate, chiancarelle (orecchiette of different sizes) and cavatelli.
Homemade dough is also used for baked calzoni stuffed with onions, anchovies, capers and olives; fried panzerotti with mozzarella, simple focaccia alla barese with tomatoes, little savoury taralli, friselle and sgagliozze, fried slices of polenta all make up the Bari culinary reportoire.
Olive oil and garlic are widely in use. Vegetable minestrone, chick peas, broad beans, chickory, celery and fennel are also often served as first courses or side dishes.
Meat dishes and the local Barese ragù often include lamb, pork and often horse meat, considered something of a local delicacy.
Pasta al forno, a baked pasta dish, is very popular in Bari and was historically a Sunday dish, or a dish used at the start of Lent when all the rich ingredients such as eggs and pork had to be used for religious reasons. The recipe commonly consists of penne or similar tubular pasta shapes, a tomato sauce, small beef and pork meatballs and halved hard boiled eggs; but different families have variations. The pasta is then topped with mozzarella or similar cheese and then baked in the oven to make the dish have its trademark crispy texture.
Bari, being the capital of an important fishing area, offers a range of fresh fish and seafood, often eaten raw. Octopus, sea urchins and mussels feature heavily. Indeed, perhaps Bari's most famous dish is the oven-baked Riso, patate e cozze (rice, with potatoes and mussels).
The Weather in Bari
| Climate data for Bari | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 12 (54) | 12 (54) | 14 (57) | 17 (63) | 21 (70) | 25 (77) | 28 (82) | 28 (82) | 25 (77) | 21 (70) | 16 (61) | 13 (55) | 20 (68) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 8 (46) | 8 (46) | 11 (52) | 13 (55) | 17 (63) | 21 (70) | 24 (75) | 23 (73) | 21 (70) | 17 (63) | 12 (54) | 10 (50) | 16 (61) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 5 (41) | 5 (41) | 6 (43) | 8 (46) | 12 (54) | 16 (61) | 19 (66) | 19 (66) | 16 (61) | 13 (55) | 8 (46) | 6 (43) | 11 (52) |
| Precipitation cm (inches) | 4 (1.6) | 4 (1.6) | 7 (2.8) | 3 (1.2) | 3 (1.2) | 4 (1.6) | 2 (0.8) | 3 (1.2) | 5 (2) | 5 (2) | 5 (2) | 7 (2.8) | 57 (22.4) |
FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM BARI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwgur9cSXHI
Sai chi e' quel giocatore che... assomiglia al magico Pele'??
JOAO PAULO, an icon in the Italian-Brazilian-Barese Soccer
Nicola di Bari, the current (past and future) idol of teenagers (che colpa ne ho, se il cuore e' uno zingarooo)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwgur9cSXHI
Rudolph Valent
ino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor, sex symbol, and early pop icon. Known as the "Latin Lover",[1] he was one of the most popular international stars of the 1920s, and one of the most recognized stars of the silent film era. He is best known for his work in The Sheik and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. His death at age 31 caused mass hysteria among his female fans, propelling him into icon status.[2]
Domenico Modugno, author one of the most famous and intellectual song of all times: Volare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4IjJav7xbg
Least but not last, the greatest rock band of the Italian contemporary musical scene: AL Bano and Romina Power. Don't miss this bootleg from their latest concert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKNv-zQFr_M
Barese for dummies
Barese for dummies: 101 expression you need to know before landing in the land of Bari with the hope of leaving it alive...
To get someone's attention
1) Giovaneeeee!!!!!!! (=excuse me, gentleman, can I have your attention, please?)
2) Capooooooo!!!! (like above, with more vigor, in case the gentleman did not respond)
3) Aoooooh! (like above, with even more vigor. I think the gentleman does not like you)
To answer:
1) CIU UE'!!!???? (the gentleman reply: what would you like?)
To ask about the price of something:
1) Quant'e' il danno? (=how much is the damage?)
To tell him that the price is quite high (he/she got you are a foreigner)
1) Vai a rubare (go steal someone else's money, would you please?)
To ask for the train station:
1) Scusa, giovane, devo andare alla stazione...
To reply to that request:
1) E va', va'...
To express wonder, happiness and emotions:
1) MO! Che gibillero! (pronounced: MO, Ke Jebillero)
2) La iosa!!!
3) Mo e ci je'!!
4) C ije' beeell!!
BARI on GOOGLE MAP (where is the church, where is the port, where is the station, where to go shopping!!!)
View Larger Map
Click on View Large Map, click on search near by, edit "shopping"... YOU CAN SHOP EVERYWHERE IN BARI!!!
Hot spots: Via Sparano, Via Argiro, Via Melo, Corso Cavour. They run parallel to each other, perpendicular to Corso Vittorio Emanuele.
Some references: Hotel Palace is on Corso Vittorio Emanuele (Bari's main street, perpendicular to Via Sparano).
You can also see my house with street view: Via tommaso fiore 120 70123 bari
New Year's Eve with us!
Depending on who we are and how many we are, we are thinking of celebrating new Year's Eve in an exciting way. For those of you who are not in a harry to leave Bari, stay tuned!!
See Naples and then...
OK, read this page while listening this from another window:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS6-b7CONDI&feature=related
A little diversion from Puglia (Apulia in English) will bring you in about 3 hours to the beautiful city of Naples on the West coast... Yes, think smaller, a coast to coast in 3 hours!!
Antonia has lived more than a year in Naples and has a suggestion for you. This is not like any city you have ever visited, this is Naples! And only one rule governs it: either you love it, or you die!
Suggested tour:
December 28: arrive in Bari
December 29: the wedding of the year
December 30 and 31: stay with us in Bari & surroundings. Stay with us for new year's eve.
Day 1. Arrive to So
rrento. Visit the city and surroundings (options: Amalfi, Ravello, Positano). Spend the night in Positano (picture on the left)Day 2. Still Sorrento, Amalfi, Ravello and Positano. Spend the night in Positano
Day 3. Go to Capri
Day 4. Go to Pompei. Spend the night in Naples
Day 5. Spend the day in Naples
Day 6, 7, 8, 9. Rome
Day 10. Back to Bari
Day 11. Bye bye Italy
11 things you must see in Naples:
1) Castel dell'Ovo (in the pict
ure)2) Get the funicolare and go up to Castel Sant'Elmo
3) Maschio Angioino
4) Palazzo Reale and in the square a coffe from Caffe' Gambrinus
5) Via Toledo and Spaccanapoli
6) Absolutely a pastry+coffe from Pasticceria Scaturchio
7) Virgil Tumb in Margellina District
8) The tango dancing on Sunday night under Galleria Umberto I
9) A tour of the Napoli underground (the ancient greek aqueduct which became the roman aqueduct, which became the borbon acqueduct which became the world war II refuge!!!)
10) The Sibil Antrum in Cuma
11) The Terra district in Pozzuoli
Suggested Hotel (avoid Stazione Centrale district and Piazza Garibaldi)
Hotel Miramare
Via Nazario Sauro 24, Lungomare Caracciolo, Naples • Show map
Hotel Miramare is set between Piazza del Plebiscito and Castel dell'Ovo. The terrace offers great views of the Bay of Naples. Breakfast is served here San Francesco al Monte
Located at the foot of the Sant’Elmo Fortress in a wonderfully panoramic setting, San Francesco Al Monte offers atmospheric accommodation easy walking distance from Naples city centre Hotel Royal Continental
Via Partenope 38/44, Lungomare Caracciolo, Naples • Show map
Enjoy stunning sea views of the Bay of Naples and the Castel dell'Ovo from Hotel Royal Continental, a large 4-star structure set in an unbeatable location on the seafront promenade. Grand Hotel Parkers 
Corso Vittorio Emanuele 135, Naples • Show map
Grand Hotel Parkers offers extremely luxurious accommodation in the residential Corso Vittorio Emanuele, with amazing views of the Gulf of Naples, and good transport links La Ciliegina Lifestyle Hotel
Via Paolo Emilio Imbriani 30, Plebiscito, Napoli • Show map
Located just 250 metres from Naples' opera house Teatro di San Carlo, close to the harbour, La Ciliegina offers ultra-modern rooms with hydromassage showers and LCD TVs
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