[garinda]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Poor you -did you not even get a tangerine? Here in Italy they say that if you receive a gift of Handkerchiefs it will bring you tears!

We took some tea towels, tartany and lucky heathery in design, picked up last minute at Edinburgh airport, for a friend's Nonna, who we were having tea with the next afternoon in Milan.

She didn't exactly go overboard when we presented them to her. In fact she had a face like thunder.

Perhaps she thought they were big Scottish hankies.

Makes sense now.