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... and it owes me a living

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Vera da Pozzo, an Italian expat in Paris.

From the Island of the Sun to the Isle of France.

My pseudonym Vera da Pozzo is a pun alluding to what I care about most : truth and loyalty, depth and insight. In my mother tongue, the syntagma "vera da pozzo" means a puteal, but it could be a female name followed by a family name. Water is indispensable for living, and we need to keep it pure and unpolluted; it is the same for truth.
I write in English because I love this language since my childhood and also because English allows me to have a more detached view on both Italy and France. The title of my personal website and blog is a paraphrasis of the verse "England is mine and it owes me a living", from Morrissey's song "Still Ill", released in The Smiths debut album "The Smiths" on 20th February 1984. As Italy had nothing to offer to young people like me, I decided to throw my arms around Paris, as Oscar Wilde did, and I am still here. Like francophone actor Lino Ventura, I am and I will always be Italian.

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Tomorrow in Paris - Hold on to your Friends

Paris, place de la République, 3rd October: vegan stands and L214 animal rights march supporting the end of the bloody business of the meat industry. I am very disappointed that the Mairie de Paris and the Préfecture de Police have rescheduled the Animal Rights March and the Pride March on the same day: last Summer, both marches were cancelled, due to the extreme heat, but they were scheduled on different dates. I smell a vile attempt to limit the number of participants to th

Pure Joy on a Sunny Sunday on Lake Como

Enjoying a great concert, jumping the barrier and shaking hands with Morrissey. Vera da Pozzo Asti, 20th July 2026 (C) Vera da Pozzo (C) Italy is Mine (C) Italy is Mine and It owes Me a Living #PureJoy #SunnySunday #LakeComo #LakeSound #Cernobbio #Morrissey #SummerTour2026 #concert #happiness #shakinghands #holdontoyourfriends #IrishBloodEnglishHeart #VeradaPozzo #ItalyisMine #italyismineanditowesmealiving

"Retrouvailles": a lovely sunny day in Paris with some good friends

Yesterday I enjoyed the retrouvailles with my friends from Bordeaux: we spent a lovely sunny day near the "Luco", nickname of the Jardin du Luxembourg. After having lunch in an Italian restaurant with many vegetarian and even some vegan options and then a walk from the Luco to the Odéon, we came back to the Panthéon, had a vegan ice-cream with a biscuit spoon before going to the Irish Cultural Centre, visiting the mediathèque and Earthbound (a film installation by Clare Lang

The Perfect Blue

I wish to dedicate to a very special and important Friend the picture below, and the other photographs I took today and posted here. I took the picture above by accident, this morning, while following the flight of a Magpie I had just photographed (see below) but I got instead this Perfect Blue. I did not resize this picture because I wanted it in its whole size and its absolute blueness. Around midday, I was strolling near the river and I took many pictures. The fresh water

Hold on to your Friends

Pictures by me and / with some friends. Saturday night. Below: Sunday afternoon, on the rooftop of the Collège de France and in the...

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