In a six-part TV tour of Italy, the presenter takes viewers on a tour from Sicily to the Dolomites - and is struck by La Dolce Vita
James May on what we can learn from the Italians, and looking like a ‘berk’ for Our Man in ItalyIn a six-part TV tour of Italy, the presenter takes viewers on a tour from Sicily to the Dolomites – and is struck by La Dolce VitaShould you need any convincing of Italy’s charisma, sweeping shots of the Amalfi Coast, Matera andDuring almost six hours of James May holidaying from the bottom to the top of the nation and attempting to find “la Dolce Vita” in “a country of contrasts” – so long as you...
“It’s very difficult to talk about this without talking in terrible platitudes, but I do think we’re in a hell of a rush in Britain and we are terribly concerned with how we’re perceived.” He’s also learned how to say “a few, simple things” in Italian. Every day he puts in 15 minutes’ practice and has even taken to testing out his skills when ordering at Italian ice-cream bars.
“Its sense of regionality is still very strong – it wasn’t that long ago that those regions effectively had their own governments, their own ruling families and even their own laws.“Sometimes you get the feeling in Italy, for example, that Sicily isn’t actually part of it – that it’s a separate country that just happens to be near the bottom.”
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