A Day Late...But Still With Love.

I fully intended to post this on Valentine's day, but got waylaid, I guess.  Anyway, I think this is a beautiful love song.  The title is Se Non Ho Te  (If I Don't Have You) by my favorite Italian group Nomadi playing with the Omni Symphony Orchestra (2007).



I also wanted to put in something about the Lucchetti Ponte Milvio in Rome. A few years ago, there was an Italian movie in which the lovers locked a chain around a lamp post on the Milvio Bridge over the Tiber River, and threw the key into the water. Since then, there have been so many people doing it, the lampost was starting to buckle. Instead of outlawing it, they put up a rack for people to put their locks (lucchetti) on, and the tradition continues.

There are places all over Italy where people put their locks, and in the tradition of a country which believes in "amore", it is tolerated, and in some cases even assisted. After all, St. Valentine was a Roman.