Today I was sitting for a merenda with my host sister and the TV was on. During this time, there's usually some Dutch (Italian-dubbed) soap opera going on, complete with dramatic camera shots and weirdly dramatic faces. (Everything is dramatic in a soap opera, no matter what country.) But today, there were four women running around in wedding dresses.
And the words "luna di miele" were everywhere.
I stared at the TV for quite a while, trying to figure out what the moon ("luna") had to do with a wedding. In my brain there was no connection. I had to ask my host sister.
"The vacation," she said. "After the wedding."
OH.
"You mean a honeymoon?!" I exclaimed. Blank faces. And it hit me.
"Luna di miele" translated to "moon of honey"...switch that around and one gets "honeymoon."
D'oh moment of the day.
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