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First they came for the verbs and I said nothing, for verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns and I speech nothing, for I no verbs.

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Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
From the heather of the Veluwe to the dust of Dakar ...

Currently resident in the Land of Sea with a small tribe of kids and Mr B.

Where there’s muck

Out cycling this morning, I passed a field being ripped up. Walking a few metres behind the earthmover (It’s Scoop, mama!) was a man with a metal detector and a spade.

“Dude! WTF!!” I shouted, but he was too busy to look up.

I can’t imagine what he hoped to find. Since the land has been

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urban gypsy

September 1, 2005 at 3:03 am · Reply

Mange tout my friend, mange tout ;-)
Bianca Jackson

April 7, 2010 at 1:10 pm · Reply

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Grazie Madonna

Those whose prayers have been answered (see previous post), can show their gratitude at this ad hoc shrine in via Trastevere. The slot at the bottom of the wall for donations for “bread for the orphans” has been crowded out by a hundred or so plaques dedicated to the madonna. The oldest plaques are closest to

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Mathieu

August 30, 2005 at 1:29 pm · Reply

Grazie ma donnina!

(diminutives work so well in Italian :) )

Sorry I can’t help with the roll-over…
Ria

August 31, 2005 at 3:02 pm · Reply

Diminutives abound in Dutch too, with people adding the wee-making marker, “-tje”, to almost everything.

Example:
- Biertje? (a little beer?)
- Doe maar ‘n kleintje (just a little small one)
urban gypsy

September 1, 2005 at 3:07 am · Reply

I like it.

Please please me

This statue is in Santa Maria in Trastevere. The hundreds of slips of paper are requests for saintly intervention. Note how the more enterprising supplicants avoided getting their requests lost in the mess at his feet and stuck Post-its on his cassock.

Although I forgot to note the name of the saint, it is almost certainly Saint

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Jane

August 19, 2005 at 10:22 am · Reply

Well, that is certainly nothing to be cheerful about! followed all you links, uuh. Very frightening stuff.
Ria

August 19, 2005 at 10:40 am · Reply

Au boulot, toi!

En tot straks :-D
Zinnia Cyclamen

August 19, 2005 at 12:40 pm · Reply

That’s Catholicism for you. Ten per cent submission, ten per cent ambition, eighty per cent superstition.
kenju

August 20, 2005 at 2:50 am · Reply

I love what Zinnia said!

And following the link: How nice of them to strangle a penitent before burning him to death. Really thoughtful.
Mathieu

August 23, 2005 at 1:01 am · Reply

OOooh, new look for the site, i like, i like…

who’d be the saint of blogging, dyu think?

SPQR

I always reckoned that if you were going to be a bum, there are worse places to choose than Rome.

I took this photo in Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere. The coat of arms of the city of Rome forms part of the fountain sculpture. The letters SPQR stand for Senatus Populusque Romanus (the Senate and

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Zinnia Cyclamen

August 18, 2005 at 9:54 am · Reply

He looks so comfortable. I’m envious, I could do with a nap right now!
waterhot

August 20, 2005 at 12:03 am · Reply

What a superb photograph ! I really wish you’d do more (or perhaps you do, in which case I wish you’d show us more).

Last exit for Italy

Someone once wrote that war was composed of long periods of utter boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. That pretty much sums up my trip north from Rome to Friesland. The moments of terror came when an overloaded and swaying lorry suddenly swung out in front of me to overtake another slow-moving lorry. I can

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Zinnia Cyclamen

August 14, 2005 at 8:25 am · Reply

You made it! Well done! I enjoyed reading this post, especially the interplay of text and photos; and oh how I sympathise about the long-distance driving diet and its side-effects. Hope all is going well now you’ve got there.
rachie

August 17, 2005 at 1:31 pm · Reply

Fantastic photos – especially the mountains. And kudos for making long distance driving interesting reading!
urban gypsy

August 17, 2005 at 11:11 am · Reply

Yeah, that sounds about right! lol
Ria

August 16, 2005 at 4:13 pm · Reply

To be fair, it only rained twice last week: once from Monday to Thursday, and then again from Friday to Sunday.
urban gypsy

August 15, 2005 at 11:06 pm · Reply

Long distance driving diet is sort of the same one that I use whilst blog hopping :-). Can tell you’ve reached Northern Europe in the summertime… rain, rain and rain. You landed safely which is all that matters.
Bluegrass Mama

August 13, 2005 at 10:13 pm · Reply

Here via Michele. It’s hard to imagine a Eurpean trip being boring, but I guess any drive can be.
Willard Curtis

January 11, 2010 at 12:59 am · Reply

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