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Oh dear! I just know you have “grumpy” cats – missing their radiator time has to be so unsettling to your two roommates!
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I find all of these customs quite interesting and we probably have many in the US I am not even aware of!
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Sounds like a weekend get-away to somewhere south (AMalfi??) is in order.
Pritiere in the US are not much better!
Stay warm and snuggle up!!
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Hi Sweetie! We are actually headed north to Torino. At least the hotel will have heat and an unending supply of hot water.
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Welcome to Italy! Yes, every year the local priest comes at Easter to bless your home and your family. For an Italian, that is much more important than a little heat. The first couple times the priest showed up (when I arrived in Italy 20 years ago), I said, “no thanks” when he knocked at my door. I am not Catholic, so I didn’t think it was appropriate. After a few years I did an about face. I welcome the priest in, I gather anyone who is around at home and we all join him in saying a prayer and watch as he sprinkles some water in blessing. I figure it can’t do any harm to have a little extra blessing. As far as the portiere is concerned, you will find they are so terribly helpful right before Christmas and the few days before Easter as they are expecting a healthy tip. Suddenly they are helping carry up the shopping bags, bringing you your mail, chatting you up. When something goes wrong in the building, they are hard to find. Giving the tip at Christmas and Easter does help get a little more response.
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Thanks Trish, next year I’ll let the priest in! 🙂 (We are not Catholic either. We are strangers in a strange land.) You are right about the portiere. At Christmas he wears a red sweater and bounces out of his workroom/office to greet, open the elevator door, chit-chat like a little elf. At Ferragosto he makes certain we know he is there the entire month of August to safeguard the building from “i ladri.” It must be killing him to have faulty heating right before Easter!
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