EvainSicily

Tunisia calls Sicily answers

datterini: date-shaped little tomatoes  so terribly sweet!!!! 

If you can dream it, you can do it!

if you want to say: useless ....or you are talking useless in Sicilian we say: ammatula! nun parrari ammatula This is another word taken from the Arabs.

to express sursprise, both in positive or negative way, in Sicilian we can say: Bedda matri! (it. Mamma mia!) MIzzica!! to say How cute to a child: che bedda picciridda! che beddu picciriddu! (it. Che bella bambina! che bel bambino!) iddu (it. Egli, lui) = He/Him idda (It. Ella, lei)= She,her picciriddu (It bambino) = a child a baby (male) picciridda (It. bambina) = a child a baby (Female a nice expression to say to a girl : matri quantu sì bedda!! (It. mamma mia che sei bella!) You're so beautiful!! an (unpolite) expression to do a compliment to a girl (but with some vague sexual connotation) mi fai sancu!!! ( It. Ti desidero) I want you... fare= to make sancu= blood

this is for Daddy  and that's for his child ! 

 These are some of the steps I do on Mondays afternoon to go in a place where I attend a course about Tv and cinema language. The course is quite interesting, but .I've just counted how many steps to go there: 198 !!!!

some love expressions... ciatu miu! ( it. sei il mio respiro) vita mia! ( it. sei la mia vita) both these expressions can  also be used by the mother to her/his child translated in English ( no literay translations)sound like that: honey my sweetie

Andrea  In the daily local street market in Ortigia (old Siracusa) there's my favourite cheese maker   Andrea is really a kind and funny person He is always so generous and it's impossible to cross the market without tasting all its specialities My tourists, who came there with me, still remember those wonderful flavours!      Smoked cheese and riped cheese underground, and dried sausage with wild fennel seeds.... Hmm che bontà!!!!!!!!!!! Andrea has become so famous that  tourists sign its delicious provola s

have you heard what the Desigual store did in Madrid a few days ago? To improve their business they inaugurated the discount season offering free clothes to the first  100 customers coming to the store with only underwear clothes on!! Great idea! A lot of people accepted that. Can you imagine here in Sicily?? Hmm I've some doubts!! A longer queque for the curious people watching.. .Hmmm! More men on women??

When I was a child my mother didn't like we (me,my sister and brother) talked Sicilian dialect.. It's an old mentality in the South of Italy among some people to think that speaking only Italian it's better to show your good education. So, my friends tell me that my English is better than my Sicilian. Tha's my revnge. Now I'm re-discovering the language of my country and it's always funny to find words which sound like French or Arabic or Spanish or greek or Latin or German ... Sicilian is considered a language and not simply a dialect, as it was the first example of literary language at the court of Frederick II (XII century) , before first Dante's poems when the so called Sicilian poets started writing love poems not in Latin but in the volgare spoken in their land. Under this "etichetta", from time to time you'll find Sicilian words or expressions ... Have fun together!!! -------------------------------------------------------

  New & good plans /promises for 2011? What are yours? What about mine?  hmmm.. Start a new master about tourism & finish a course I'm attending to.. Learn Spanish (but this is the  third year I promise!!) Quien sabe!!! Travel more...and about my plans/promises or better say about my dreams..there's a voyage to Mexico and Copenhagen for my birthday.. To be in a better shape...last year I didn't do enough sport To defend myself from who doesn't know me at all  and fight more for what is mine! much time for my best friends and family put in practise some ideas about my job..but they're still ideas in my mind.. more relaxing time for my love to work better in my blog, hoping to start a good exchange with my readers and followers believe more in men..but this is  really hard.. help unlucky children and.......read this spot and,at the end of the year, say: Very good Lucia, you did all!!

  The Nativity in Giarratana (Rg)  Wise men have arrived bringing their gifts! What will be the gifts that 2011 will bring for you? what are your plans and desires?

Not always it's possible to buy good clothes at good prices, but sometimes it's not possible to find really good clothes. Not always you find true discounts on the season clothes. This morning I was really upset. I went in one of the MOTIVI shops but I didn't find the things I was looking for. All old fashionable clothes, not at all belonging to their last autumn collection!!! They really think we are so stupid!!!!!??????

Last week the discount season started. Till 15th March there's the possibility to find good clothes and shoes at reasonable prices. Yesterday I went out for shopping, looking  for some comfortable black boots with no heels, good for working and walking among ruins. Hmmm that's what I've brought with me at home.... no black, high heeled boots.... erano troppo belli!!!!!

 a view of the new Siracusa from Ortigia  The Eastern side of Ortigia     Maniace castle in Ortigia The old side of Siracusa it's a little island the Greek called Ortigia (in Italian today) which means "quail" in honor of Artemis, the goddess of hunting. The new part of the city, anyway, is built above the  ancient side on the mainland..so wherever you are in Siracusa, you can find old ruins

There's no official video about this song for commercial reasons...as the two singers belong to  two different companies!! What a shame , but in the real life each belong to the other.....they're in love. I have already liked Malika singing on her own.....when nobody knew  her I was already singing her songs. What about Cesare Cremonini.. a wonderful reality among the young Italian music panorama!! In this moment its Greatest Hits (about 10 years songs) is first in the  Italian Hit parade. Toghether ...for  a nice song about love!

Ricomincio da qui....... Starting again..from here!!! " I start again  from here from a light illusion I wake up and you are here here with me... again"

That's Modica Tha's Modica, a picture taken to Modica bassa from the panoramic road which goes to the Oriente quarter, what locally people here call  o' rente. If you translate from Sicilian into Italian you should call it Il dente that is  the tooth !! Oh no !what mistake..... Oriente (East) wrongly pronounced in sicilain became o'rente. Funny people, we are! Look in the middle of the picture and you can see the true masterpiece of the Church of St. George! on the top of 250 steps!! So don't care if you are eating too much here. Then, good exercises with the guides around the city!

I took this picture during my visit of the presepe vivente   in Giarratana Funny laundry, isn't it? Old kind of boxer , but, the funny way to hang the laundry somewhere has not changed.

Duomo square in Ortigia (old Siracusa) Today coming back to work.... I don't like winter season too much....for a guide it's like a lethargy. It's true, you can do many other things, but I miss my job, I miss my offices!!!! Today, American people have decided to have a tour ....Ortigia, excavations, catacombs and what else? we'll see

Le immagini di questa canzone sono bellissime.... questa canzone l'avrei voluta scrivere io.....se fossi un uomo la scriverei per la mia donna.. è cos' che vorrei sentirmi per il mio uomo...

that's my lullaby for tonight a tender love song

This is year I've chosen   to visit the Presepe vivente in Giarratana , a very little town in the province of Ragusa( 3.000 thounsand souls!), where in the old section of the village they set a wonderful presepe vivente , in a natural picturesque location. It's an opportunity, not only for tourists, but especially for the sicilian children and young to show them old traditions and rural life like it was not not really long time ago in the mountain sicilian villages.