On 2014-12-05 18:26:42 +0000, Jack Campin said:

Not my blog, but I found this description interesting:

http://mrsgrumpywrites.wordpress.com...november-2014/

"Who *is* this woman with the baby?"

Many years ago when we had lunch in Cremona my daughter -- then 3 --
wanted to eat gnocchi, so we did, and they were very good, possibly the
best gnocchi that I've eaten. I don't suppose she knew what gnocchi
were, but she liked the sound of the word (or ñoquis, as my wife said
it). However, she probably did know who the woman with the baby was.

We were there for a very mundane reason. We had just stopped on the way
further east to change some money from dollars to lire. That turned out
to be a long and complicated operation involving telephone calls to the
head office, because the bank couldn't understand why people who
weren't American and didn't live in the USA would want to buy lire with
dollars. As that couldn't be done before lunch we decided to visit the
centre of Cremona while the transaction was being arranged.


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athel