A new link

I added a friend's blog in my Links list (http://famsterdamlife.com/) so it's mandatory a...

Disclaimer!

If reading that stuff you'll resign from your job, leaving your place, friends, partner(s) just for visiting 2 or 3 continents with a backpack and a pair of shitty boots during a trip of X months, I won't be responsible for that and for all the bad adventures you'll drop in.

Better to be clear.

Mind your steps (cit.)

A new project...

...is in progress in my brain

When? Next winter

Where? Still thinking

Why? It's necessary

Who? Just me, as usual

What? Still thinking

mumble mumble

One year ago

Ieri mi son dimenticato di "celebrare" qua sopra.

Il primo Aprile 2010, mi son caricato lo zaino in spalla e ho lasciato casa di MarcoG, camminando in direzione ovest.

Dopo un anno mi ritrovo annoiato e sbadigliante in un ufficio: e' ora di preder armi contro un mare di affanni e contrastandoli por fine a tutto?

Ci riflettero' oggi, pedalando in giro.

Buona vita

63rd stage: one week ago

Just a walk in the Dutch countryside during one of the best/worst days of this period :/

A gift

"A walk in the woods"

feeling like...

62nd stage

but 1st in Germany and almost 4 months after the 61st stage.

25 km a camminare nella campagna/hinterland di Frankfurt am Main, l'unica differenza con la Francia era che non capivo quasi nulla di quel che mi dicevano in giro: una signora nel bar di un distributore mi illustrava l'offerta di un dolcetto artificiale, io le rispondo in inglese che non mi interessa e lei ribatte in tedesco...

Ma com'e' che le due principali potenze industriali d'Europa (Francia, Germania) se ne battono altamente di avere una conoscenza diffusa dell'inglese? Allora qui una delle I del programma del nano di merda non ha nessun valore? Ignoranti e sprovveduti!

Un vecchietto a cui ho chiesto un'informazione mi ha quasi detto con orgoglio "Nein!" alla mia classica domanda "du iu spik inglisch?". Stessa risposta quando ho chiesto riguardo francese o italiano...de' io ci ho provato! Poi lui mi ha parlato in tedesco e con i gesti ci si e' aggiustati.

Next stage? Mmmmah vedremo.

Buona vita

re-reading

Reading the first posts is something really weird: it seems like the experience of someone else.

"What you did? Walking? You crazy!"
Last comments talking about my trip :) and go on explaining why/when/where/what/who :D

Always funny to talk about it, but thinking "And now?" and remembering my ankle's problems and the efforts for reaching a camping, or a city, and all the stuff I saw and experienced: difficult to explain to someone all this things.

But.....who cares?

At the moment I understand how much I changed my point of view about a lot of life's detail: I'm fine about it and still curious about tomorrow, the days after ...

The end (?)

Ho un posto dove dormire e per cui ho firmato un contratto.
Oggi con l'aiuto di Fra ho portato tutti miei averi in casa, disfatto pacchi e zaini, buttando la tenda in un mobile svedese, il materassino al fianco di una armadio ank'esso svedese e traballante quanto il primo.

Ho troppa roba: a breve un repulisti per rendere piu' agile il movimento

E via cosi'

One month later

Still "squatting" and waitin'

Working and testing myself

Riding my bike

Walking

Watching movies

Meeting people

Washing

Cleaning

Writing

Discussing

Sleeping

Waking up

Smoking

Drinking

Eating

Surfing

Tapping

Planning

Buying

Spending

Consuming

There's something missing...

New people

DRIIIINN [the doorbell ringing]

Me:- WTF?

gilrX:- Hi there, I'm looking for a friend Y, do you know him?

Me:- hemm humm... no...anyway..I open the door, maybe he's living upstairs

girlX:- OK thanx! :)

[10 minutes later]

girlX:- Heyyyy mister! Heyyyy fiiiuuuu [whistles from the street]

Me:- Hey what's goin'on?

girlX:- Do u have internet there?

Me:- Yep

girlX: Can I come upstairs for checking the address of my friend Y? He's not living in your building...

Me:- HAHAHA ok, no problem.

[after checking and leaving my place]

[10 minutes later]

girlX:- Heyyyy mister! Heyyyy [calling my name from the street]

Me:- Hey! Didn't find your friend, hu?

girlX:- Do u have a phone?

Me:-......yeah.....you forgot your phone?

girlX:- yes.....and I need internet for finding the number of my friend....

I love this city

a place to stay

Still "squatting" a friend's studio and looking for a place...it's the first time I have all this problems finding a studio/apartment for me and my rumenta.

Meanwhile the office life (re)started: reading, writing emails, meeting people, writing, fixing, writing and so on

And now I've to check some plants, try to fix a front door and spend time enjoying the "sun"

bye bai

Back to the same problems...

...like looking for an apartment...and then you think "ok let's save some money" and try looking for a room ...and then searching outside A'dam ...
If I keep going this mean logic I'll go living in a garage in the dutch platteland

YO!

PS ...Has anyone out there a second-hand iPod Touch to sell? Eh? Eh?

e...

...alla fine son tornato tra canali, AH e amazzoni in bicicletta. E ci rimarrò qualche mese.
Nel frattempo non mi resta che:
- cercare un posto dove dormire senza squattare appartamenti di amici
- aggiustare la caviglia
- immaginare come avere un bagaglio più leggero
- pensare a nuovi luoghi da vedere (non sono pochi)

Come sarà tornare in un ufficio? Quanto resisterò? Dubbi dubbi

So?

E oggi abbiam fatto ping. Vediamo il pong come sara'.

Today I did the ping: let's see the pong!

amsterdammmmmmmmmmm

Dont' know if you got it but I'm in amsterdam....easier with a train,eh!

Another time in Nantes...

...before the jump back :)

walking on the clouds

Ile de Yeu

Following the suggestions I reached this small and, for what I saw, beautiful island.

Now I'll stay here 2 or 3 days...mumble mumble

La Barre de Monts - Fromentine

And after some hours under the sun I reached this place, overloaded of tourists :)

There's some news ... maybe a brief jump to Amsterdam...