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Re: Say Okay to The Bidet: Your 10 Questions Answered

Lisa | LLworldtour — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:55:10 -0000

Yes! Great post and thanks to Katrina for sending me here. I recently posted about the almighty bidet as well. http://www.llworldtour.com/... Love your pigeon poop analogy. Here. Here.

Re: Say Okay to The Bidet: Your 10 Questions Answered

LE — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:32:32 -0000

Only use bidets while wearing a motorcycle helmet. In some apartments the water pressure is very dangerous.

Re: Say Okay to The Bidet: Your 10 Questions Answered

Marco De La Pierre — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:21:00 -0000

The highest tribute to bidet ever done on Internet!
They should distribute this ode in every Italian airport!

Thank you Whitney!!! ;)

Re: Say Okay to The Bidet: Your 10 Questions Answered

Giulia — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:13:55 -0000

Thank you!!! As an Italian, I don't understand how people from other countries can live without it. :D

Re: Say Okay to The Bidet: Your 10 Questions Answered

Katrina — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:02:19 -0000

LOVE this! I have been singing the praises of bidets for a long time now. Have mentioned it in a few posts, but this is a great guide! I shared it on my page, Google+, and am about to tweet it. So practical and true. Thanks for this, Whitney. :D

Re: …e alle volte ti domandi … ma sono proprio sicura di voler fare questo lavoro?

Marco De La Pierre — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:25:14 -0000

Grande Vale!!! A quando il prossimo tour?? Ho un paio di domande da farti....;))

Re: Ryanair.con – The no cares airline

Tom — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:46:55 -0000

In Sweden the government funded Consuer advice service which is an agency resolving issues betwwen the public and companies and then check cases for laws, rules and regulations, found that Ryanair refuse to follow advice to pay compensation in 60% of all cases (which is just unheard of).

Scandinavian Airlines Systems SAS on the other hand follow 100% of advise to rectify issues as indicated byy the Allmäna Reklamationsnämnden ARN.

Another good reason to give "the greedy Irish" a miss

Re: MANGIA (like an Italian)

Florence164 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:00:48 -0000

There is a new chance for dining in Florence: please have a look at http://www.firenzeshop.com/...
Alessandra and Cinzia will host foreign travellers in their homes for an unusual and amazing experience of dining: a real typical Tuscan dinner by a local family, or a cooking class specially for handmade pasta.

Re: Ryanair.con – The no cares airline

Nathan — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:49:20 -0000

I've flown with Ryanair 7 times in the space of 18 months and I've never had a problem with them. Maybe next time you will read the rules and regulations before flying.

Re: 10 Steps To Making Espresso In A Moka, The Italian Coffee Pot

Whitney — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:38:16 -0000

That's a good tip, especially for me! I never add sugar, so I never stir my coffee. I'd better start. I'd love to feel more balanced :)

Re: 10 Steps To Making Espresso In A Moka, The Italian Coffee Pot

Iflorence — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:28:50 -0000

Ciao Whitney, also, dont forget to gently turn the coffee with a teaspoon while it is still in the top chamber of the Moka (most of Southern Italians do it in order to have a better balanced coffee!)

Re: Ryanair.con – The no cares airline

Iflorence — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:11:19 -0000

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Re: Ryanair.con – The no cares airline

Wp — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:42:35 -0000

ryanair is for poor people and thats it. ba gives you free check in bags/food/drinks/alcohol, and peace on board no crying kids and no non stop announcements.its worth to pay more

Re: 10 Italian Slang Expressions You Can’t Live Without

Flobugg — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:00:59 -0000

The vulgar version is almost always used with the letter c and not g

Re: 10 Types of Italian Coffee Decoded and Pronounced

Whitney — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:44:29 -0000

I'll take mine with baileys and you've got yourself a deal :)

Re: 10 Types of Italian Coffee Decoded and Pronounced

Whitney — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:43:43 -0000

Hahah, you shared a tiny little espresso?! Now, that's love :) Do you remember which cafe it was? And I'm really glad you liked my article! Thanks!

Re: 10 Italian Slang Expressions You Can’t Live Without

Whitney — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:10:21 -0000

No. 2 was confusing for me for a long time. "Fig-O" just means "cool." "Fig-A" means 1) slang for a "hot" or "cool" girl 2) The feminine version of "figo" (a cool thing) 3) female genitalia. So, if you say "Lei è figa!" It means, "She's cool!" If you say, "Quella borsa è figa!" It means, "That purse is cool!" If you hear someone talking about "LA figa" that's a different, and more vulgar, story.

Re: 10 Italian Slang Expressions You Can’t Live Without

Marcod — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:21:38 -0000

Che figata d'articolo Whitney...Ma come faremmo senza di te..che palle sarebbe!!! ;))

Re: 10 Italian Slang Expressions You Can’t Live Without

Christiebrkt — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:39:42 -0000

No. 2 is actually quite vulgar, description of the female genitalia... not to be mistaken for fico, or fig :)

Re: 10 Types of Italian Coffee Decoded and Pronounced

RicardoSan — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:24:59 -0000

As a supreme lover of coffee, this article enticed my deepest memories of an afternoon spent with my love at a small cafe enjoying our shared Espresso! Loved your piece! Ricardo

Re: 10 Types of Italian Coffee Decoded and Pronounced

Marcod — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:50:47 -0000

Great article Whitney..I think we should discuss our next articles in front of a lovely caffe' corretto con la sambuca in vetro e zucchero di canna....what do you think? ;)

Re: Ryanair.con – The no cares airline

Cliff — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 02:30:30 -0000

The rules are very easy to follow. I have flown with Ryanair more than one hundred times, and knew what was required from the first flight. The airline is efficient, the staff polite and I get to exactly where I want to go without any fuss and incredibly cheaply. I have to say my only complaint is as to some of the passengers who are a total embarrassment with their their inability to stick to a simple requirement to not exceed a handbaggage allowance of ten kilos (ten kilos !!!!!!!!!!!!! that;s an awful lot). Some of the moronic - and I have to say - mostly English passengers - who tend to flout the rules are cringeworthy especially the onees who attempt to test out the size of their clearly oversized handbaggage in the Ryanair framed and they are so big that they get stuck - hilarious really.
Do what Mr O'Leary suggests and you won't go far wrong. Ryanair is a bus with wings - ti get people where they want to go cheaply. I am absolutely delighted with the service and to all the moaners (some of whom have probably never been on a Ryanair Flight) go the hell somewhere else and pay ten times as much

Re: Ryanair.con – The no cares airline

Withheld — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:58:03 -0000

Yes, with the era of e-boarding tickets which are indisputably cheaper and quicker than printing out a ticket at home, it is absolutely understandable to pay 60 pounds should you forget a boarding pass. That makes perfect sense. It is not at all to get money out of people in bad faith so they can legally advertise they have fairs to Cyprus for 10 pounds and at the same time get people like you to rave about them for their cheap fairs. Also understandable there are third party kiosks who will print out boarding passes for Ryanair at a literal fraction of the cost at the airports Ryanair operates from instead of Ryanair adding a few pennies to each ticket so they could provide those kiosks themselves.

Listen nobody is saying what they are doing is illegal and you are right everyone should read all the fine print before agreeing. But when is the last time you bought a piece of software and skipped over the EULA and found out you bought only a chance to win that piece of software? Again both legal, but both absolutely morally bankrupt.

Re: 10 Things You Absolutely Must Do in Florence in the Winter!

Issam — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:07:33 -0000

I leave in Florence and i always need a visit to your website! great job! Thx

Re: 10 Things You Absolutely Must Do in Florence in the Winter!

Whitney — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:57:56 -0000

Mehmet, did you ever go to the Florence Christmas market while you were here? Florence is very missable, but you live in a pretty cool place as well! I was in Turkey this summer and it was fantastic! So many cool markets! Is there a kind of special holiday market in Turkey?