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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Tuesday Voice: Ancora 2013 Italian style

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Montepescali, Ardenza

By Geoffrey Dean

[Sequel to "Continuing 2013 Italian style"]

Following our early morning seaside walk in Civitavecchia and a generous breakfast in the Roman catacombs-style basement breakfast area in the Roses hotel, we dutifully loaded our GPS info into the device, but secretly vowed not to listen to it because 1) it seemed to choose circuitous routes and 2) the female British-English speaker had horrible Italian pronunciation. We had heard her say “Strada provinciale” like “STRAY-dog prov-in-SEE-ayl” way too many times the previous day.