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    Cool on a Stool

    15th October 2009 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this

    It was aperitivo time in Florence – but, then, when isn't it? After meeting her Italian friend, Donatella (no relation to THE Donatella), the two of them perched ourselves on two of those impossibly high stools in a glossy bar off one of the city's main piazzas. It was then freshly off the plane Susan made her fatal error. She ordered before Donatella had a chance to speak or before...

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Deirdre Pirro

Deirdre Pirro

International lawyer and freelance writer, Deirdre Pirro recently published a book called 'Italian Sketches: The Faces of Modern Italy' and is the author of a regular column in The Florentine, the bi-monthly English-language paper in Florence, Italy (www.theflorentine.net) where she has lived in the shadow of the Basilica of Santa Croce for more than twenty years. Still trying to fathom out some of the local customs and Italian politics, she compensates by overeating the country's delicious food and drinking too much of its unique wines. But, on the theory that she must have picked up something during all this time, she wants to share a bit of what she has learnt and, maybe, even find a few new answers along the way.

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