Oh Why, Oh Why am I in love with all things Italian?

Right now I am having quite a few thoughts raging through my brain regarding why I am infatuated with the Italian culture.

An Italian couple have just booked into the only Delxue Studio apartment that I had available for two nights. They happen to be having there honeymoon and oh my goodness my stomach is doing flips with excitement.

I gave them a complementary bottle of very good red vino local to Echuca (VIC) to congradulate them on there marriage.

Why am I so exicited?

Then she goes on to tell me she also has five apartments on her residence, so already we have something in common. But I feel I have alot more in common with them and I just cannot put my finger on it!

I sometimes wonder if one of my father's real parents were Italian, we don't know my Dad's real parents, they gave him away as a tiny little baby and we have never known anyone from Dad's side.

Yes, I do wonder about his parents, if there are other children, cousins etc, and yes I would love to know!

Anyway, I am just sharing what is going on in my mind right now.

Also I was asking myself the question - why am I doing Spanish and not Italian, should the children & I be doing Italian since I have this passion or should I stick with Spanish for a couple of years, then do Italian?

What do you think?

P.S I know, I know I have changed my blog background 'again'! But I love this one better, and that Turquoise is my favourite color! Hope you don't mind! :-)

A Journey to Italy...

"As evening draws near, and in the still air

a few clouds can be seen resting on the mountains,

standing on the sky rather than drifting across it,

or when, immediately after sunset, the loud shrill of crickets is heard,

I feel at home in the world, neither a stranger or an exile."

The lovely place we resided at whilst at Malua Bay was filled with plenty of wonderful written books and art work. Being rather fond of the Italian culture I was immediately drawn to this book 'letters from Italy'.

With a cup of latte and a gorgeous sunlit sitting room I began to read and literally was swept away with this writer and poet to the bountiful land of Italy.

Goethe completely captivated me with his writings and I felt as though I was on the journey with him, his use of words are so lyrical and poetic, I just drifted away.

"From the room where I am sitting, a door opens on to the courtyard below. I placed my table in front of it and made a quick sketch of the view. Except for one corner to my left, I can see almost the entire length of the lake. Both shores, hemmed in by hills and mountains, glimmer with innumerable small villages."

If you would like to read this delightful letter you will find it here -http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ioXNoJa6qNsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Letters+from+Italy+-+by+Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe&source=gbs_similarbooks_s&cad=1