by MK
When you take your first footsteps in Trieste everything about your surroundings appears enormously charming, albeit confusing at times. As time passes you find yourself adopting the characteristics you once thought were strange, funny or made no sense at all. In other words, you become Trieste-nized.
But to what effect? If you recognize yourself in at least 5 of the examples below you have officially become a Triestino/a!
1. Your coffee is called either a nero or a capo. Never an espresso.
2. In summer you go al bagno.
3. You forgot what volentieri really means in Italian and believe that the only correct translation is “I’m sorry”.
4. You think bora is awesome.
5. You never go out in the rain.
6. You drive as if there is always a woman in the back about to give birth and you must take her to hospital in time.
7. You speak Trieste English. You have long since stopped walking to appointments and “arrive” “by feet”.
8. You jaywalk. Always.
9. You know the difference between spritz bianco and spritz morbido and the fact that there’s never a bad time for one.
10. You can convey all your feelings with a single “orca”, “mona”, “ciò”, “benbon” and the beautiful “viva la e pò bon”.
