Painting of the Month - Ciao Bella

Dino love Angelina, what more can one say. 

Dino also loves tennis, reading his running magazines and tagliatelle with crab. 
Angelina enjoys pètanque on the beach, reading Country Living and also tagliatelle with crab.

You will often see Dino the Gondolier, rowing under Angelina's home, calling out "Ciao Bella", as he hands her a lovely bouquet of flowers.

Ahhhhhhhh... They make a great team!

Even in the Guardian!

That's the CORNISH Guardian, not THAT Guardian! Dino was asked to answer a few questions in the local newspaper, now he thinks he is a published author.
Actually, back in Venice, with his "proper" job, as a gondolier, he has been in the newspaper, magazines, on the radio, in documentaries and even on TV: with actual famous people, does the names Suggs mean anything to anyone? He appeared in Suggs' Italian Job, teaching Mr Suggs how to row a gondola, quite compelling viewing.

This is a still clip from the "Suggs' Italian Job"

This is a still clip from a documentary called "Hidden Artists" by Radu Zaplitnii
you will find it on youtub
Art for Serious People "Merica" by R. Zaplitnii "Artisti Nascosti"

Back to Cornwall... the local newspaper, the Cornish Guardian, each week, asks a person from the town to answer 20 questions and one particular week they asked Dino. He was a little nervous, but due to past experience, breezed through it.

Here it is:

Dino De Zorzi answers 20 Questions

1. Childhood hero: Blackbeard.
2. Hobbies: Racket sports and gardening.
3. Favourite music: Cha-cha-chà music.
4. Favourite book: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
5. Favourite film: The Courtship Of Eddie's Father, with Glenn Ford and Ron Howard, a 1963 romantic comedy, a classic.
6. Favourite television programme: QI.
7. What's so good about living in your town? Sometimes I see Dawn French when I'm running in the mornings!
8. What would improve it? You cannot improve on perfection.
9. I'm very good at: Annoying my wife

10. I'm very bad at: Remembering trash night.
11. A phrase I use too often: What are you drinking?
12. Three people (dead or alive) I would invite to dinner:
Richard Burton, Oliver Reed and Richard Harris.
13. I'd like to be stranded on a desert island with (apart from other half): My gondola.
14. I'm embarrassed by: Comments that were written in my old school reports cards.
15. Proudest moment: Winning last week's badminton match with my partner Chris.
16. Best things about Cornwall: Seagulls.
17. Worst things about Cornwall: See above.
18. Which of our country's laws would you change? Chewing gum.
19. Overrated public figure: Peter Andre.
20. In another life I'd be: Björn Borg.