They’ve thrived and survived the Caesars, volcanic eruptions, the Vandals and the Goths, Napoleon, the Nazis and Mussolini… and Italy WILL survive Coronavirus.
The Italians have been at the Travel Fair, IMM2020, in London, this week.
Out doing what they do best… putting on their best front to the world.
It isn’t time now to deliver blame for Italy being in lockdown.
Rather it is best to dig out our holiday snaps, put on those old Dean Martin records and maybe a Fellini film.
Maybe go to our favourite Italian restaurant where your restaurateur is your best friend and you get the best pasta and risotto al funghi and Chianti.
And guess who knows how to make pasta from scratch now… thanks to my pal Catherine Fulvio at her Balkynocken Coikery School https://ballyknocken.ie
With Topflight, the Italian specialists www.topflight.ie. Also visit http://www.italia.it/en/home.html
Because if Italy can’t bring us out to them at the moment let’s bring Italy out to us.
The Roman Empire
Of course what the Romans did for us was only to give us all in the Western World the building blocks of civilisation.
I saw much of that on my walk along the Via Francigena, the last 100kms from Viterbo in Lazio into Rome Small roads lead to Rome and www.FrancigenaWays.com.
Where every small town boasted an antiquity, a fresco.
It wasn’t built in a day and Italy and Italians won’t be destroyed in a day either.
FORZA ITALIA
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