<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075</id><updated>2011-10-18T20:44:23.638+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Il viaggio, vandringen, the journey</title><subtitle type='html'>A life of small things,
De små tingens liv,
Una vita fatta di piccole cose.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>485</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-6061790312072197484</id><published>2011-10-16T11:48:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-16T12:35:30.382+02:00</updated><title type='text'>On "Job's suffering" and happy pigs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-swq3EZOgjS0/TpqsijqMMDI/AAAAAAAACD0/p8akshWXHos/s1600/Hanoch-Levin.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 126px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-swq3EZOgjS0/TpqsijqMMDI/AAAAAAAACD0/p8akshWXHos/s200/Hanoch-Levin.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664029191059550258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mats and I went last night to see Hanoch Levin's incredible play "Job's suffering" at the Jewish theatre. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A secular interpretation of one of the oldest stories ever told. Levin has made Job's life timeless, a work of heart that I cannot even dare to imagine how much it must have cost him emotionally to write and set up. "We" the public sat litterarily around SORROW and PAIN in humangous proportions, trying to cope with our own feelings of awkwardness, helplessness, horror and fear, which blended theatrically with Job's own experience of loss and anguish.  I left wondering how the actors cope with playing this every single night? The play met our expectations and, for once, we agreed with the critics :-).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This morning was really beautiful. Sunshine that makes the colors of fall turn into copper and gold. Mats and I took a power walk that we never wanted to end so we walked and walked and walked. By the ecological farm we stopped to look at a bunch of very happy and very pink pigs rolling around in organic and chemicals-free mud. The fence was so low that they could have wondered out if they wanted....or if they could. Thing is that pigs cannot climb. But we can, we people can climb! We can ask ourselves difficult questions and we can even find answers we don't even imagine are there...pigs cannot do that, probably they are more content than us in their inability to climb a low fence, but as for myself: I WANT TO CLIMB.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Job is known to have said the one sentence that has made him famous in all kinds of circles and throughout history: &lt;i&gt;I know my redeemer lives. &lt;/i&gt;This statement gave him hope to endure even when strength had totally been exhausted. Here is one of my favorite songs. I usually do not like songs with "sweetened" illustrations attached to it, but this was the best YouTube could do for me today. The words are on the other hand a massive statement of Job's faith (and mine, at least up to today).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ieri sera Mats ed io siamo stati a vedere la rappresentazione "La sofferenza di Giobbe" al teatro ebraico. Una versione secolare ed incredibilmente forte del drammaturgo Hanoch Levin.  Levin ha liberato una delle storie più antiche mai raccontate, da ogni limite forzato dal tempo. Non posso nemmeno immaginare quanto debba essergli costato intellettualmente ed emotivamente, scrivere e dirigerne la sceneggiatura. "Noi", il pubblico eravamo seduti attorno alla scena e direttamente partecipi ad un'immensa rappresentazione di SOFFERENZA e DOLORE, cercando di controllare emozioni di sconforto, paura ed impotenza che si mescolavano teatralmente all'angoscia di Giobbe. Questo è vero teatro! Sono uscita chiedendomi come fanno gli attori a ripetere l'esperienza ogni sera? La rappresentazione ha fatto centro e per una volta eravamo completamente d'accordo con i critici ;-).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Questa mattina splendeva il sole,  trasformando i colori autunnali in oro e rame. Siamo usciti a camminare e non volevamo più rientrare, cosí abbiamo camminato e camminato. Alla fattoria ecologica ci siamo fermati a guardare i maiali grassi e rosa rotolarsi contenti nel fango organico, privo di sostanze chimiche. La staccionata attorno era talmente bassa che avrebbero senza alcuna difficoltá potuto saltarla. Ma i maiali non saltano, mentre noi umani possiamo saltare ed anche scavalcare! Possiamo porci domande difficili ed addirittura trovare risposte...a volte risposte che non avremmo nemmeno immaginato. I maiali sono probabilmente più felici di noi nella loro incapacità di saltare, ma io VOGLIO SALTARE.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Giobbe è conosciuto in diverse cerchie per la sua affermazione: IO SO CHE IL MIO VENDICATORE VIVE. Un'affermazione sostenuta da sofferenza quasi indicibile. Pubblico una delle mie canzoni preferite con lo stesso titolo. Solitamente evito video con illustrazioni sdolcinate ma YouTube non ha potuto fare di meglio per me oggi. Le parole sono comunque una potente presa di posizione di Giobbe (e forse mia, almeno per oggi)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-6b643ab09ca6d7c4" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v5.nonxt3.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D6b643ab09ca6d7c4%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D3F91F9AC5569807090A21CA4A20E42DDEB2BB686.610C8BEDB6826C4237EBC0CAA45149F903C0B84B%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D6b643ab09ca6d7c4%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3D3Lk_latwQd8CubTyMI32gjIeTMg&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v5.nonxt3.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D6b643ab09ca6d7c4%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D3F91F9AC5569807090A21CA4A20E42DDEB2BB686.610C8BEDB6826C4237EBC0CAA45149F903C0B84B%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D6b643ab09ca6d7c4%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3D3Lk_latwQd8CubTyMI32gjIeTMg&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-6061790312072197484?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/6061790312072197484/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=6061790312072197484' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/6061790312072197484'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/6061790312072197484'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/10/on-jobs-suffering-and-happy-pigs.html' title='On &quot;Job&apos;s suffering&quot; and happy pigs'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-swq3EZOgjS0/TpqsijqMMDI/AAAAAAAACD0/p8akshWXHos/s72-c/Hanoch-Levin.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-2753831735594688011</id><published>2011-07-04T14:05:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-04T14:19:38.946+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Joy 25/5/2001-01/07/2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;A family pet's death is a heavy loss. We have lost Joy and the emptiness and sadness are very deep. For our children letting go of Joy is like letting go of a beloved little sister and old aunt at the same time. She has been with them, with us, through our family's every situation and fase, in sickness and health. She has licked away tears and danced gladness. She has been with and cherished, totally, constantly...unconditionally. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;La morte di un animale domestico è una grave perdita. Abbiamo perso Joy. Il vuoto ed il dolore sono molto profondi. Per i nostri ragazzi lasciare Joy è come lasciare una sorella minore molto amata ed allo stesso tempo anche lasciare una vecchia prozia carica di acciacchi. Joy è stata con loro, con noi, attraverso ogni fase e circostanza, in malattia e in salute. Ha leccato via le lacrime e danzato le gioie della nostra famiglia. E´stata presente ed ha amato, completamente, costantemente...incondizionatamente.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DHOuuZ_8bUg/ThGs-Kq3hoI/AAAAAAAACDg/gBZ1-vJpvEc/s1600/skanna0001.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 263px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DHOuuZ_8bUg/ThGs-Kq3hoI/AAAAAAAACDg/gBZ1-vJpvEc/s400/skanna0001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625467593578481282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;2001&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-98SAoa0qXU4/ThGs90p0H-I/AAAAAAAACDY/MBKjhiJRb3Q/s1600/021_19.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-98SAoa0qXU4/ThGs90p0H-I/AAAAAAAACDY/MBKjhiJRb3Q/s400/021_19.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625467587668484066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;ca.2004&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_WotBnLyadE/ThGs9QT2j3I/AAAAAAAACDQ/YBqGOItOaHE/s1600/P1000284.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_WotBnLyadE/ThGs9QT2j3I/AAAAAAAACDQ/YBqGOItOaHE/s400/P1000284.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625467577912692594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img 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title='Marcusan'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8_LACScasvE/TfMGv_X02zI/AAAAAAAACCw/KDVzMIgOU9c/s72-c/Marcus%2Bstudent%2B016.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-3655499156383532414</id><published>2011-06-07T21:03:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-06-07T21:14:05.306+02:00</updated><title type='text'>I like Joel</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-7770e36b54f6d577" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" 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bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v13.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D7770e36b54f6d577%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D21325D04F962BADB23E9D4FC33A637AF5786969E.40A4A4481A33BD79F8A4994B7B8D0AFD4F45F826%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D7770e36b54f6d577%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3Dez93LAU1SuRcI2qfIpSYD5rUHbs&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is inspiring :D&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-3655499156383532414?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-8006264062535846126</id><published>2011-05-22T21:10:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-22T21:37:03.020+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Livet på landet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3lFwgo53lyg/TdljqvmPxdI/AAAAAAAACCk/WAlVqc3jKp4/s1600/landet%2Bmaj%2B2011%2B006.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3lFwgo53lyg/TdljqvmPxdI/AAAAAAAACCk/WAlVqc3jKp4/s320/landet%2Bmaj%2B2011%2B006.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609624396849202642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C5eadM7WPfY/TdljqWP1BgI/AAAAAAAACCc/IpjIqiwxZQc/s1600/landet%2Bmaj%2B2011%2B004.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C5eadM7WPfY/TdljqWP1BgI/AAAAAAAACCc/IpjIqiwxZQc/s320/landet%2Bmaj%2B2011%2B004.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609624390044288514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7kljmYSeA6s/TdljqLpoEVI/AAAAAAAACCU/2kL7qwDmHP4/s1600/landet%2Bmaj%2B2011%2B003.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7kljmYSeA6s/TdljqLpoEVI/AAAAAAAACCU/2kL7qwDmHP4/s320/landet%2Bmaj%2B2011%2B003.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609624387199701330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RH_fj8fJfuw/Tdljp85pElI/AAAAAAAACCM/mZKDgHnETTU/s1600/landet%2Bmaj%2B2011%2B002.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RH_fj8fJfuw/Tdljp85pElI/AAAAAAAACCM/mZKDgHnETTU/s320/landet%2Bmaj%2B2011%2B002.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609624383240344146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c1ULIoZGBO0/Tdljps-3GEI/AAAAAAAACCE/R5-ABkiGLoE/s1600/landet%2Bmaj%2B2011%2B001.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c1ULIoZGBO0/Tdljps-3GEI/AAAAAAAACCE/R5-ABkiGLoE/s320/landet%2Bmaj%2B2011%2B001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609624378967267394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other day I overheard a conversation between a handsome and elegant british man (the accent was very british, the look very caribbean) and a swedish young woman.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;The guy&lt;/b&gt;: I hope this summer to be able to explore the coral reefs in Egypt. What do people do in the summer here in Sweden?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;The woman:&lt;/b&gt; we mostly spend our time at a summer cottage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;The guy:&lt;/b&gt; Aw, fascinating, and what do you do there? Do you go for shootings, do you take saunas and play sports?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;The woman&lt;/b&gt;: no, not really, people mostly do repairs to the cottage and mow the loan. We read a lot too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;The guy&lt;/b&gt;: (silent)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I had to smile to myself, knowing far to well how that knowledge had landed on the speechless chap. Just the same way it had landed on me the first time I realized what's behind the relationship between swedes and their summer cottages.&lt;i&gt; The more primitive, the better...the more work to do, the better.&lt;/i&gt; Today I tought of that conversation as Mats and I opened the cottage for the summer, cleaned the inside and mowed the loan outside. My body aches, the rugs are washed and drying...summer has officially started.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;L'altro giorno mi è capitato di ascoltare la conversazione tra un elegante ragazzo inglese (l'accento era prettamente inglese, l'apparenza prettamente caribica) ed una donna svedese.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Il ragazzo&lt;/b&gt;: questa estate spero di poter esplorare le coralliere in Egitto. Quí in Svezia cosa fa la gente d'estate?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;La ragazza&lt;/b&gt;: per la maggior parte sta nelle casette in campagna o nei boschi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Il ragazzo&lt;/b&gt;: ah, affascinante. E lí cosa fate? Andate a caccia, fate la sauna, fate sport?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;La ragazza&lt;/b&gt;: veramente no, per la maggior parte si fanno lavori di manutenzione e si taglia l'erba. Ma la gente legge anche parecchio.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Il ragazzo&lt;/b&gt;: (silenzio assoluto).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dovetti sorridere, consapevole dell'effetto che l'informazione aveva avuto sul ragazzo. Lo stesso effetto che ebbe su di me quando realizzai per la prima volta cosa si nasconde dietro il rapporto degli svedesi con le loro casette di campagna: &lt;i&gt;piú primitive possibili è con piú lavoro da fare, li rende armoniosi e felici. &lt;/i&gt;Oggi ho ripensato a quella conversazione quando con Mats sono stata ad aprire la nostra casetta nel bosco, a pulire per l'estate ed a tagliare l'erba. Indolenzita e con i tappeti appesi ad asciugare...annuncio che è arrivata l'estate anche quí.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-8006264062535846126?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/8006264062535846126/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=8006264062535846126' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8006264062535846126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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type='html'>When my students ask me who my idol was when I was little, I tell them it was him...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Quando i miei alunni mi chiedono chi era il mio idolo quando ero piccola, rispondo che era lui...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-6339a3f310cd8b70" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-4299317312491880391</id><published>2011-05-21T19:15:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-21T19:34:42.361+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Wheels</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;A good day riding with "church on wheels" and celebrating a MC-service at Rålambshov's park in the heart of Stockholm.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Una buona giornata con "la chiesa su due ruote" celebrando il culto dei motociclisti nel parco Rålambshov nel cuore di Stoccolma.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oBFc5N702jU/Tdf2W1yZcsI/AAAAAAAACB8/umFiCnqjmm8/s1600/Jesusmanifestationen%2B006.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oBFc5N702jU/Tdf2W1yZcsI/AAAAAAAACB8/umFiCnqjmm8/s320/Jesusmanifestationen%2B006.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609222733169259202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;What Mats thought of the day is easy to tell.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Cosa Mats pensa di questa giornata non è difficile da decifrare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mna5PSajUsk/Tdf06-gJ9_I/AAAAAAAACB0/a8Os3MGbU0Q/s1600/mc-gudstjanst.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 48px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mna5PSajUsk/Tdf06-gJ9_I/AAAAAAAACB0/a8Os3MGbU0Q/s320/mc-gudstjanst.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609221154960701426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m-MfXGfdJgw/Tdf0i8j6hoI/AAAAAAAACBs/WiXbpsHXuh8/s1600/1871_DSC_0580.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 174px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m-MfXGfdJgw/Tdf0i8j6hoI/AAAAAAAACBs/WiXbpsHXuh8/s320/1871_DSC_0580.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609220742122735234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3nZRh2MrDww/Tdf0iW3zADI/AAAAAAAACBc/NPuxXX3hxLc/s1600/Jesusmanifestationen%2B016.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3nZRh2MrDww/Tdf0iW3zADI/AAAAAAAACBc/NPuxXX3hxLc/s320/Jesusmanifestationen%2B016.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609220732005580850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Ulf Christiansson played with his two sons' new band "The House". He even took a couple of Jerusalem's songs, for the sake of the old-timers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Ulf Christiansson ha suonato con la band dei suoi due figli "The House". Ha anche suonato un paio di canzoni dai tempi di Jerusalem, per gli attempati.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OePnrPMYM_g/Tdf0DIwZaaI/AAAAAAAACBU/P12lO-x4TI4/s1600/1871_DSC_0649.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 174px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OePnrPMYM_g/Tdf0DIwZaaI/AAAAAAAACBU/P12lO-x4TI4/s320/1871_DSC_0649.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609220195640502690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5gCTXmwabGM/Tdf0CjLnS-I/AAAAAAAACBM/UNkWeQwCFvE/s1600/Jesusmanifestationen%2B015.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5gCTXmwabGM/Tdf0CjLnS-I/AAAAAAAACBM/UNkWeQwCFvE/s320/Jesusmanifestationen%2B015.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609220185554111458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kIvoh_zgMiY/Tdf0CUzo7NI/AAAAAAAACBE/6yIIx1fpUCA/s1600/Jesusmanifestationen%2B008.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kIvoh_zgMiY/Tdf0CUzo7NI/AAAAAAAACBE/6yIIx1fpUCA/s320/Jesusmanifestationen%2B008.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609220181695458514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6w4mH0QPIRY/Tdf0B3tYFEI/AAAAAAAACA8/ptmkf6SPSfM/s1600/Jesusmanifestationen%2B003.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6w4mH0QPIRY/Tdf0B3tYFEI/AAAAAAAACA8/ptmkf6SPSfM/s320/Jesusmanifestationen%2B003.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609220173884560450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;This church's parking lot is not really like any other one.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Il parcheggio di questa chiesa è diverso da quello a cui si è abituati. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-4299317312491880391?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/4299317312491880391/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=4299317312491880391' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/4299317312491880391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/4299317312491880391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/05/church-on-wheelsi.html' title='Wheels'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oBFc5N702jU/Tdf2W1yZcsI/AAAAAAAACB8/umFiCnqjmm8/s72-c/Jesusmanifestationen%2B006.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-5136161299409033365</id><published>2011-05-07T18:17:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-07T18:53:24.465+02:00</updated><title type='text'>This is Sweden</title><content type='html'>Wooden villas with trimmed loans and a trampoline in the backyard. Kids riding shining bikes with high security helmets fastened on their heads. Teens walking around in their Converse shoes. Two cars, a summer cottage and the boat at the marina. A week on the mountains (fjällen) and one in Greece. This is actually a very normal scenario of swedish family idyll à la 2011. But it is not the only one. There is also the single mum coming to parents-teachers' conference, running up the stairs to make it on time in order to also leave on time to pick up her youngest before closing time, so to avoid the disapproving looks of kindergarden-teachers. She has been up since 02:00, leaving the one-room apartment and three sleeping kids  at 02:20 to be at her cleaning job at 03:00. She has just finished work, the clock in the classroom says 15:00. She is alert and listening to how well her kid is doing and to how much better she would do if homework would be done and handed in. She sighs, there is no use in pretending, so she just aknowledges that it is partly her fault that homework is not been done because her older children have to help take care of things while she is at work. Sweden is also a 11 years old getting up at 06:30 in a one room apartment to get himself and his little sibling ready for school. Taking his sibling on a stroller to kindergarden and making his way to school in time. After school he gets his sibling back home to find a tired mum who has got to put something on the table for dinner, trying to make family life...after having been up since 02:00.  &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ville di legno con i prati ben segati ed il trampolino nel giardino di dietro. Bambini su biciclette scintillanti muniti di caschi ad alta sicurezza. Adolescenti che se ne vanno in giro nelle loro scarpe Converse. Due macchine, la casa in campagna, la barca al molo. Una settimana in montagna ed una in Grecia. Questo scenario non è insolito nell'idillio familiare svedese alla 2011. Ma non è l'unico scenario. C'è anche la madre singola con tre figli che fa le corse al colloqui con l'insegnante portandosi dietro le borse della spesa. Arriva in tempo per andarsene in tempo a prendere il piccolino prima della chiusura dell'asilo, per evitare le occhiate di disapprovazione delle maestre. E´in piedi dalle 02.00, uscita da una casa di una stanza singola alle 02:20 per essere al lavoro di pulizia alle 03:00. Viene ora dal lavoro e l'orologio della classe segna le 15:00. E' molto attenta durante il colloquio, sente della figlia che è molto brava e lo sarebbe ancora di piú se fosse regolare nel fare e consegnare i compiti. Sospira ed ammette che la colpa è in gran parte sua dato che le due figlie maggiori devono aiutare con il piccolino quando lei è al lavoro. La Svezia 2011 è anche una ragazzina di 11 anni che si alza la mattina in un appartamento di una camera singola, sveglia il fratellino e lo prepara. Lo porta in carrozzina all'asilo e corre a scuola per arrivare prima della campanella. Dopo la scuola va a riprendere il piccolino e lo porta a casa dove da poco è arrivata una mamma stanchissima che deve mettere qualcosa in tavola e cercare di creare un'atmosmera di famiglia...è in piedi dalle 02:00.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-5136161299409033365?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/5136161299409033365/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=5136161299409033365' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/5136161299409033365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/5136161299409033365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/05/this-is-sweden.html' title='This is Sweden'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-7340670524333826070</id><published>2011-05-03T07:43:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-03T07:44:45.398+02:00</updated><title type='text'>May 3rd, 2011 it snows big time!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KpQvD0bAS5k/Tb-WRydrUiI/AAAAAAAACAs/qIJtBx1LOpw/s1600/hemmahos-daniel-en-lrdag-009_139885320.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602361693820375586" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KpQvD0bAS5k/Tb-WRydrUiI/AAAAAAAACAs/qIJtBx1LOpw/s400/hemmahos-daniel-en-lrdag-009_139885320.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-7340670524333826070?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/7340670524333826070/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=7340670524333826070' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7340670524333826070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7340670524333826070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/05/may-3rd-2011-it-snows-big-time.html' title='May 3rd, 2011 it snows big time!'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KpQvD0bAS5k/Tb-WRydrUiI/AAAAAAAACAs/qIJtBx1LOpw/s72-c/hemmahos-daniel-en-lrdag-009_139885320.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-3190341600985393606</id><published>2011-04-22T10:23:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-22T17:02:17.057+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Someone's messing with the stone...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-f814f42217af8e6d" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v3.nonxt6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3Df814f42217af8e6d%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D3D50DA19DE7373C2D546EEAB6CAD673255E856D9.6CCB6D4F1225FF6934B088F556435A8EBE9830B2%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Df814f42217af8e6d%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DM5Wu95Ef-i7_2Pf388PsNu_wAUA&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v3.nonxt6.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3Df814f42217af8e6d%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D3D50DA19DE7373C2D546EEAB6CAD673255E856D9.6CCB6D4F1225FF6934B088F556435A8EBE9830B2%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Df814f42217af8e6d%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DM5Wu95Ef-i7_2Pf388PsNu_wAUA&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;It's the 80's and it's Carman and the resurrection power became very real to me...and it still is.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sono gli anni 80 ed è Carman e la potenza della resurrezione diventó molto vera per me...e lo è ancora.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Sunday's on the Way&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); white-space: nowrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "&gt;&lt;u&gt;Carman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;The demons where planning on having a party one&lt;br /&gt;night. They got beer and Jack Daniels and&lt;br /&gt;pretzels, a little Red wine, and some white. They&lt;br /&gt;were celebrating how they crucified Christ, on&lt;br /&gt;that tree. But Satan, the snake himself, wasn't so&lt;br /&gt;at ease. He took his crooked finger and he dialed&lt;br /&gt;the phone by his bed, To call an old faithful&lt;br /&gt;friend, to know for sure, that he was dead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said, "Grave, Grave tell, did my plan fail?"&lt;br /&gt;Old Grave just lauged and said, "Oh man, the dude&lt;br /&gt;is dead as nails."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chorus Well hey, hey, hey on Friday Night, they&lt;br /&gt;crucified the Lord at Calvary, But He said, "Don't&lt;br /&gt;dread, in three days, I'm gonna live again, you'll&lt;br /&gt;see." When problems try to bury you and make it&lt;br /&gt;hard to pray, It may seem like Friday night, but&lt;br /&gt;Sunday's on the way!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A tranquilizer and a horror flick could not calm&lt;br /&gt;Satan's fear. So Saturday night, he calls up the&lt;br /&gt;grave...scared, of what he'd hear. "Hey, Grave,&lt;br /&gt;what's goin' on?" Grave said, "Man, you called me&lt;br /&gt;twice, and I'll tell you, once more again boss,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;[ Find more Lyrics on &lt;a href="http://mp3lyrics.org/AMl" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-decoration: none; "&gt;http://mp3lyrics.org/AMl&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the Jew's on ice!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Devil said "Man grave, do you remember when old&lt;br /&gt;Lazurus was in his grave? You said everything's&lt;br /&gt;cool and four days later, BOOM, Ol' Lazurus, he&lt;br /&gt;was raised! Now this Jesus, He is much more&lt;br /&gt;trouble than anyone has ever been to me. And look&lt;br /&gt;Grave he's got old Devil shook cuz He said, he's&lt;br /&gt;only gonna be dead for three!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;[Chorus]&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunday morning Satan woke with a jump, ready to&lt;br /&gt;blow a fuse. He was shaking from the tips of his&lt;br /&gt;pointed ears, to the toes of his pointed shoes. He&lt;br /&gt;said "Grave tell me is He alive? I don't want to&lt;br /&gt;lose my neck!" Grave said, "Your evilness,&lt;br /&gt;maintain your cool. You are a wreck!" Grave said,&lt;br /&gt;"Now just cool your jets, Big D, my sting is still&lt;br /&gt;intact, You see, Jesus is dead forever, he ain't&lt;br /&gt;never coming back, so just mellow out man, just go&lt;br /&gt;drink up or shoot up, but just leave old Grave&lt;br /&gt;alone, and I'll catch you la..... la....oh no! OH&lt;br /&gt;no! OH NO! OH NO....SOMEBODY'S MESSING WITH THE&lt;br /&gt;STONE!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then the stone was rolled awa and it bounced a&lt;br /&gt;time or two, and an Angel stepped inside and said,&lt;br /&gt;"I'm Gabriel, who're you? And if you're wondering&lt;br /&gt;where the Lord is, at this very hour, I'll tell&lt;br /&gt;you he's alive and well, with resurrsection&lt;br /&gt;power!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lyrics: &lt;u&gt;Sunday's on the Way&lt;/u&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Carman&lt;/i&gt; [end]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-3190341600985393606?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/3190341600985393606/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=3190341600985393606' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3190341600985393606'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3190341600985393606'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/04/someones-messing-with-stone.html' title='Someone&apos;s messing with the stone...'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-4102991343668316316</id><published>2011-04-19T19:07:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-19T19:09:00.603+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1qpozE4PGp8/Ta3Bd3hXh1I/AAAAAAAACAc/aduFwp3K9dM/s1600/v%25C3%25A5r2011%2B016.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1qpozE4PGp8/Ta3Bd3hXh1I/AAAAAAAACAc/aduFwp3K9dM/s320/v%25C3%25A5r2011%2B016.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597342630755665746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Careful spring makes her way to my balcony.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Una timida primavera si avvicina al mio balcone.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-4102991343668316316?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/4102991343668316316/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=4102991343668316316' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/4102991343668316316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/4102991343668316316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/04/careful-spring-makes-her-way-to-my.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1qpozE4PGp8/Ta3Bd3hXh1I/AAAAAAAACAc/aduFwp3K9dM/s72-c/v%25C3%25A5r2011%2B016.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-1954733636118652198</id><published>2011-04-17T12:23:00.020+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-17T13:51:41.061+02:00</updated><title type='text'>A writer in the making</title><content type='html'>Same scene you would see monday to friday if you took subway 10 at 7:00am. Same sit by the left window. A woman (imagine if I good add &lt;i&gt;beautiful, charming....breathtaking!&lt;/i&gt;)  with a pile of papers on her lap, tote bags stuffed under the sit (after checking that no spit or worse was left by the previous passenger), ink pen in her left hand (sometimes red, sometimes blue, sometimes green, depends what she happens to fish up from the tote bag, she is not that consistent). That would be me, actually. Today I go through my 5th graders drafts of their chapter story, to be written in a medieval setting. Not easy to read and write comments on drafts. They are written in all kinds of directions, with arrows and small comments like "&lt;i&gt;go to the next page down and then turn the sheet&lt;/i&gt;" and in quick brainstorming scribbles. But I am trained for that and I make easily my way through the jungle, adding my own scribbles and comments. I try not to intrude too much into my pupils' creative sphere and integrity, yet double letters have to be double letters and after a period you ought to use a capital letter. Some things you cannot be free from, it's my job to remind them. I laugh out loud as I can see one lad's eyes filled with expactation for my reaction. He is so cheeky as to throw a challenge to me by writing of farting horses and burping vassals. I write a compliment for his historical knowledge, with no little satisfaction on my part, I must say, throwing the challenge right back to him, in the middleages people looooved poopy humor. My pupils write "&lt;i&gt;good stuff&lt;/i&gt;", a  story in three chapters is not that easy, especially when the requirement is to be historical. I read of girls who cut their thick tresses to be able to pass for knights, of munks in very mystical situations and of Robin Hood's brother who is a real jerk. And so it comes to "her" draft, the creased sheet of paper I hold in my hand is written with a pencil in desperate need of sharpening.  As I read "her" first chapter I see everything before me and my reading eyes are totally connected with my gut. There she is,  the sweet little girl  walking down to the creek to cool down her dusty feed, she feeds her cat while talking to it  "one bite for you and one for me", I hear her father's wroal from the cottage with the thatched roof and her heartbeat thumps in my ears...I am not in a subway wagon, I am in a village in Yorkshire. My eyes fill with tears and I forget to check the spelling which is lacking badly, and I miss my stop, and I come late to work (a few minutes, but anyhow), because my pupil is a writer in the making.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;La stessa scena che vedreste ogni mattina dal lunedí al venerdí se prendete la metro 10 verso cittá alle 7 in punto. Stesso sedile sul finestrino a sinistra. Una donna (pensa se postessi scrivere &lt;i&gt;bella, attraente....irresistibile!&lt;/i&gt;) con una pila di carte sulle ginocchia e due borse di yuta sotto il sedile (dopo aver controllato che nessuno vi abbia lasciato uno sputo o qualcosa di peggio), penna a sfera nella mano sinistra (a volte rossa, a volte blu, a volte verde, dipende da quello che riesce a pescare da una delle borse, non è molto coerente sta signora). Sarei io, insomma. Questa mattina correggo le bozze della mia quinta. Sono storie in tre capitoli da ambientare nel medioevo. Non è facile leggere e correggere bozze. Sono scritte su carta di origini misteriose e nelle direzioni piú intressanti, con freccine e commenti del tipo "&lt;i&gt;quarda piú in giú e poi gira la pagina e vedi sopra". &lt;/i&gt;La calligrafia è un capitolo a se. Ma sono addestrata a questo e mi faccio strada nella giungla cercando di intrufolarvi i miei commenti e le mie correzioni. Sono attenta a non forare la sfera creativa dei miei studenti ed a non invadere la loro integritá, ma le doppie rimangono doppie, e dopo il punto ci vuole la maiuscola. Da certe leggi non ci si libera ed è compito mio rammentarlo. Scoppio a ridere mentre immagino gli occhi colmi di aspettativa di uno dei miei pargoli che mi ha lanciato una sfida scrivendo (lo sfacciato) di un cavallo che ammazza  con le sue scoregge e di un vassallo che fa rutti abominevoli. Gli annoto un complimento per la sue conoscenze in campo storico, rutti e scoregge erano all'ordine del giorno nel medioevo. Non nascondo la mia propria soddisfazione nel rilanciagli la sfida. La mia classe scrive &lt;i&gt;roba buona, &lt;/i&gt;una storia in tre capitoli non è compito facile, specialmente se viene richiesta fedeltá storica. Leggo di una ragazza costretta a tagliarsi le lunghe trecce (bagnate di amare lacrime) per potersi far spacciare come cavaliere, di monaci in situazioni alquanto mistiche e del fratello di Robin Hood che è un vero imbecille (il fratetllo, dico). Infine tocca alla bozza di una alunna, cerco di lisciare il foglio stropicciato scritto con una matita che chiede disperata di venir infilata in un temperino. Appena inizio a leggere il suo primo capitolo i miei occhi si collegano con il mio ventre e la vedo immediatamente. La ragazzina che saltella al ruscello per sciaquarsi i piedi coperti di polvere, che da da mangiare alla sua gattina mentre le parla "un boccone a te ed uno a me". Sento l'urlo del padre dalla casetta col tetto di paglia ed il palpitare del suo cuoricino è un tamburo nelle mie orecchie...non sono in un vagone di metropolitana, sono in un villaggio dello Yorkshire. Gli occhi mi si riempiono di lacrime e dimentico di correggere l'ortografia che lascia parecchio a desiderare. Perdo la mia fermata ed arrivo in ritardo al lavoro (di qualche minuto perlomeno), perchè ho tra le mani un capolavoro.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-1954733636118652198?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/1954733636118652198/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=1954733636118652198' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1954733636118652198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1954733636118652198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/04/writer-in-making.html' title='A writer in the making'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-8030751614309208381</id><published>2011-03-26T11:29:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-26T11:41:46.193+01:00</updated><title type='text'>LoL i.e. laughing out loud</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KiaoAU_5C_0/TY3AYzHbM8I/AAAAAAAACAU/GAFt5MnM9-A/s1600/Jonas_Jonasson_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 230px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KiaoAU_5C_0/TY3AYzHbM8I/AAAAAAAACAU/GAFt5MnM9-A/s320/Jonas_Jonasson_1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588334244907398082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PmPLVGlYpK0/TY3AYtUHoMI/AAAAAAAACAM/t4YZjb4RdP0/s1600/images.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 160px; height: 252px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PmPLVGlYpK0/TY3AYtUHoMI/AAAAAAAACAM/t4YZjb4RdP0/s320/images.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5588334243350028482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here is THE book that has made gloomy swedes in dark winter days laugh out loud wherever they are: on the bus, at a doctor's surgery, waiting in line at the bankomat....I doubt that Jonas Jonasson imagined that his debute work would have had such a success. It is incredibly funny, one of those book to be read aloud in a large circle of friends...&lt;i&gt;The hundred years old who climbed out the window and desappeared. &lt;/i&gt;As far as I know it has not been translated and I wonder if it is possible to do so. &lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ecco IL libro che ha fatto scoppiare dalle risate milioni (e sono pochi milioni quassú) di malinconici svedesi durante le giornate buie di questo inverno. &lt;i&gt;Il vecchietto centenario che saltó fuori dalla finestra e sparí,&lt;/i&gt; ha impegnato nella lettura gente in ogni luogo: sull'autobus, dal dottore, in fila al bankomat...Dubito che Jonas Jonasson potesse immaginare che il suo debutto letterario avrebbe avuto un successo simile. E´di una comicitá favolosa. Uno di quei libri da leggere ad alta voce tra amici e parenti. Per quanto sappia non è tradotto e mi chiedo se sia possibile farlo. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-8030751614309208381?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/8030751614309208381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=8030751614309208381' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8030751614309208381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8030751614309208381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/03/lol-ie-laughing-out-loud.html' title='LoL i.e. laughing out loud'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KiaoAU_5C_0/TY3AYzHbM8I/AAAAAAAACAU/GAFt5MnM9-A/s72-c/Jonas_Jonasson_1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-932371793856699020</id><published>2011-03-13T21:48:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-13T21:56:53.753+01:00</updated><title type='text'>It makes me a proud italian...</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-f56f47222470f651" 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bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v3.nonxt2.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3Df56f47222470f651%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D2E9DD648CD8373940808D2A0BC5BF574B75BBC49.56F8D3EA292AE9DFCF10F7C98900B82E33A9AC15%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Df56f47222470f651%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3Duenw4L6qsCRHD4vnHeqA1HzHiAc&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;...when I hear and see Roberto Benigni sing the national anthem as if he were a young sheperd in the Appenninian mountains during the 1800s'.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mi fa essere italiana orgogliosa quando sento e vedo Roberto Benigni cantare l'inno nazionale impersonando un pastorello sugli Appennini una notte dell'´800.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div 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italian...'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-8792230047464275062</id><published>2011-03-05T20:07:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-05T20:12:34.484+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Kidoes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HGDo_48Sucw/TXKKHbmnIqI/AAAAAAAAB_8/vQWZR2WnzM0/s1600/IMG_1318.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HGDo_48Sucw/TXKKHbmnIqI/AAAAAAAAB_8/vQWZR2WnzM0/s400/IMG_1318.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580674748538888866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G8aEuWzp7Zc/TXKKHVLhmPI/AAAAAAAAB_0/L_snt5QWXhQ/s1600/IMG_1319.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G8aEuWzp7Zc/TXKKHVLhmPI/AAAAAAAAB_0/L_snt5QWXhQ/s400/IMG_1319.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580674746814666994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;These two were definetly not at our wedding, but have been the essential part of our life for the past 17 years. Life would have been incredibly boring without you guys. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Questi due non erano decisamente al nostro matrimonio, ma hanno fatto parte essenziale della nostra vita negli ultimi 17 anni. La vita sarebbe stata una noia immensa senza di voi. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-8792230047464275062?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/8792230047464275062/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=8792230047464275062' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8792230047464275062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8792230047464275062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/03/kidoes.html' title='Kidoes'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HGDo_48Sucw/TXKKHbmnIqI/AAAAAAAAB_8/vQWZR2WnzM0/s72-c/IMG_1318.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-525712907377739799</id><published>2011-03-05T12:54:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-05T20:14:31.224+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Half a life</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iFJLtKeRDhw/TXKLimTtenI/AAAAAAAACAE/yez2mTFPh6k/s1600/SCAN0001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 217px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iFJLtKeRDhw/TXKLimTtenI/AAAAAAAACAE/yez2mTFPh6k/s320/SCAN0001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580676314780498546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mats and I got married on a rainy march 5th, 1988 in my hometown Mantova. We were so happy that we felt no rain and we did not even notice that Italy was already in full spring bloom. My white shoes were a size too small, I did not notice that either. I had bought the cheapest pair of white high heels I could find since all I had owned for the past two years were plastic flip flops, punjabi suits and saris and I did not expect to put on a pair of white high heels again, which I never did. I was fresh from India and I wanted to marry in a white sari and flip flops, but family and friends caught hold of me as soon as we announced that we wanted to marry and for the coming five weeks I was everyone else's wedding projekt. So I married with a perm, tons of make up, a white satin dress with a huge bow on my behind and those high heels. People say it was a lovely wedding...I do not remember much. Mats and I invited everyone we met and it turned out to be 195 italians, 5 swedes and a few other foreighers. People dropped in from the street and ate of our buffét, we liked that. Today we have been married for 23 years, it is exactly half of my life. I have lived with Mats for half of my life! It has been good years and I am thankful. At the risk of being almost too sweet I publish OUR song since a very long time, &lt;i&gt;If I should be left behind&lt;/i&gt; by Bruce Springteen. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Io e Mats ci siamo sposati il piovoso 5 Marzo, 1988 nella mia cittá natale, Mantova. Eravamo cosí felici che non ci siamo per niente resi conto della pioggia. Non ci siamo nemmeno resi conto che la primavera era scoppiata nel nord Italia e io non mi sono resa conto del dolore causato dalle scarpe che erano una taglia piú piccola dei mei piedi. Avevo comprato le scarpe bianche con tacchi piú a buon prezzo che avevo trovato. Per gli ultimi due anni non avevo portato altro che ciabatte di plastica infradito e non avevo in progetto di indossare scarpe bianche con i tacchi nel prossimo futuro, non l'ho infatti mai piú fatto. Ero fresca fresca dall'India e volevo sposarmi in un sari bianco e con le infradito di plastica, ma appena abbiamo annunciato che volevamo sposarci, parenti e donne varie si sono impossessate di me e nelle prossime cinque settimane sono stata il loro progetto matrimoniale. Cosí mi sono sposata con la permanente, quintali di trucco, vestito bianco di raso con un immenso fiocco sul didietro ed appunto i tacchi alti. Non ricordo molto del matrimonio, ma mi si disse che fu piacevole. Io e Mats avevamo invitato tutti quelli che incontravamo ed alla fine sono venuti 195 italiani e 5 svedesi, piú qualche straniero. Dalla strada entrava gente a mangiare dal nostro buffét, ci faceva piacere. Oggi siamo sposati da 23 anni, esattamente la metá della mia vita. Vivo con Mats da metá della mia vita! Sono stati anni buoni e sono grata. Correndo il rischio di confinare con il sdolcinato pubblico quella che è la NOSTRA canzone da tanti anni, &lt;i&gt;If I should be left behind&lt;/i&gt; di Bruce Springsteen. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-fc6c34402343eaa9" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v21.nonxt5.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3Dfc6c34402343eaa9%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D510EA7ACB4EE7FC8C20A59409B5C0619BF60F6D6.2E902E5D0BBE43E7929172E268D90592F22973F4%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Dfc6c34402343eaa9%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DlyEUwIDrHk5RDyip9adGtlYXFmU&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v21.nonxt5.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3Dfc6c34402343eaa9%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D510EA7ACB4EE7FC8C20A59409B5C0619BF60F6D6.2E902E5D0BBE43E7929172E268D90592F22973F4%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Dfc6c34402343eaa9%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DlyEUwIDrHk5RDyip9adGtlYXFmU&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-525712907377739799?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/525712907377739799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=525712907377739799' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/525712907377739799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/525712907377739799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/03/half-life.html' title='Half a life'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iFJLtKeRDhw/TXKLimTtenI/AAAAAAAACAE/yez2mTFPh6k/s72-c/SCAN0001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-9200501747153867670</id><published>2011-03-05T10:52:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-05T11:00:53.830+01:00</updated><title type='text'>It is melting</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2KiP5sqG-mA/TXIJNfo-QgI/AAAAAAAAB_s/wq_C5_S2p_Y/s1600/5.3.2011%2B006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2KiP5sqG-mA/TXIJNfo-QgI/AAAAAAAAB_s/wq_C5_S2p_Y/s400/5.3.2011%2B006.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580533015701766658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VYX3PzgQXGw/TXIJNKfCkLI/AAAAAAAAB_k/YfOT1LtseCI/s1600/5.3.2011%2B013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VYX3PzgQXGw/TXIJNKfCkLI/AAAAAAAAB_k/YfOT1LtseCI/s400/5.3.2011%2B013.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580533010022961330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WVZgp-ZfXDA/TXIJM3q-ACI/AAAAAAAAB_c/I2xKo32ed78/s1600/5.3.2011%2B009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WVZgp-ZfXDA/TXIJM3q-ACI/AAAAAAAAB_c/I2xKo32ed78/s400/5.3.2011%2B009.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580533004972720162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KJ7yAZfP8Gg/TXIJM_66SWI/AAAAAAAAB_U/eDFKT_v4BSk/s1600/5.3.2011%2B007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KJ7yAZfP8Gg/TXIJM_66SWI/AAAAAAAAB_U/eDFKT_v4BSk/s400/5.3.2011%2B007.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580533007187069282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HkjEBmCQLYg/TXIJMlGXpFI/AAAAAAAAB_M/gXGiyXLOJIc/s1600/5.3.2011%2B010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HkjEBmCQLYg/TXIJMlGXpFI/AAAAAAAAB_M/gXGiyXLOJIc/s400/5.3.2011%2B010.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5580532999987373138" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After 20 weeks of thick snow, there are some shy signs that it is melting. It is an amazing feeling to step on the soft old grass from last summer, just like when Aslan conquered the Ice Queen and spring reappered in Narnia...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dopo 20 settimane di neve fitta, c'è qualche timido segno che si sta sciogliendo. E´una sensazione meravigliosa pestare la vecchia erba soffice dell'estate scorsa, come quando Aslan sconfisse la Regina del Ghiaccio e la primavera ritornó a Narnia...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-9200501747153867670?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/9200501747153867670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=9200501747153867670' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/9200501747153867670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/9200501747153867670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/03/it-is-melting.html' title='It is melting'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2KiP5sqG-mA/TXIJNfo-QgI/AAAAAAAAB_s/wq_C5_S2p_Y/s72-c/5.3.2011%2B006.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-7069226812837748657</id><published>2011-02-26T15:29:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T15:45:24.082+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Tomorrow, When the War Began</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nhIr7TsEpN0/TWkOXx9eTVI/AAAAAAAAB_E/AsgC1I4wyeI/s1600/imorgon_93135343.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 268px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nhIr7TsEpN0/TWkOXx9eTVI/AAAAAAAAB_E/AsgC1I4wyeI/s320/imorgon_93135343.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578005415186025810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;My collegue has been talking about this series from the '90s that she loved as a young teen and that she recommends her students to read. I seat in the underground and the lady (a grown up one) in front of me is reading this same book that my collegue speaks warmly about. I spend a day at the ministry of education and a teacher seats in a corner reading the very book. Now I am intrigued! I have borrowed a worn copy from the local  library. Let's see....&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;La mia collega parla spesso di questa serie per ragazzi degli anni ´90 che leggeva spesso da ragazzina e che raccomanda alle sue alunne di leggere. L'altro giorno la signora (attempata) seduta di fronte a me in metropolitana era immersa nella lettura di questo stesso libro. Al ministero dell'educazione dove ho trascorso un'intera giornata la settimana scorsa, un'insegnante se ne stava in un angolo a leggere questo libro. Ora sono proprio curiosa! Ho trovato una vecchia copia alla biblioteca comunale. Vedremo... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;P.S. In italiano: &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "&gt;La guerra che verrà&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-7069226812837748657?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/7069226812837748657/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=7069226812837748657' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7069226812837748657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7069226812837748657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/02/tomorrow-when-war-began.html' title='Tomorrow, When the War Began'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nhIr7TsEpN0/TWkOXx9eTVI/AAAAAAAAB_E/AsgC1I4wyeI/s72-c/imorgon_93135343.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-786185469444807944</id><published>2011-02-24T20:12:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-24T20:34:34.032+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Revolutionary road</title><content type='html'>I walk around bearing the strong feeling that we live in a remarkable historical time. Whatever is happening in the Mediterrenean is getting out of control, yet not. It makes nevertheless the rest of the world boil like a pot of vegetables. If they fight we might not be able to drive our cars, &lt;i&gt;ouch!&lt;/i&gt; Manifestations everywhere, both east and west. The revolution is in the hands of the people,especially and as usual,  the young people used as they are to share their thoughts and opinions, to cloath their thoughts with words on Facebook, on Twitter, in blogs and what not. It is the era of freedom of speech and of defending one's human rights. It is the fearless ENOUGH of a bold crowd. Awareness can only be good even when it leads to bloodshed. I stand amazed at the strength caused by a united people, a crowd. It is now that matters, tomorrow we shall see &lt;i&gt;in shalla. &lt;/i&gt;I wake up every morning with the same question in my fuzzy brain: &lt;i&gt;now what?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Vado in giro con l'incessante sensazione che viviamo in un momento storico del tutto particolare. Con l'impazzire del Mediterraneo, impazzisce il mondo intero. Se loro litigano noi forse non potremo guidare la macchina. Il mondo bolle come una pentola di minestrone. La rivoluzione è nelle mani del popolo. Specialmente e come di consueto, della popolazione giovane abituata com'è ad esprimersi, a vestire di parole il proprio pensiero su Facebook, su Twitter, nei blog e chissá dove altro. Viviamo l'era della libertá di parola a massimo volume. La difesa coi denti del diritto umano di dire BASTA. La consapevolezza non è mai nociva, puó solo essere buona anche se rischia di portare al massacro. Rimango strabiliata dalla forza immane di una popolazione unita, della folla. E´ora ora che ha significato, domani vedremo &lt;i&gt;in&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;shalla&lt;/i&gt;. Mi sveglio ogni mattina con lo stesso pensiero nebbioso: &lt;i&gt;e ora?&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-786185469444807944?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/786185469444807944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=786185469444807944' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/786185469444807944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/786185469444807944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/02/revolutionary-road.html' title='Revolutionary road'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-182180564528236124</id><published>2011-02-20T14:29:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-20T16:36:24.513+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The sky is everywhere</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6JT0WunVCMk/TWEXZaLLSKI/AAAAAAAAB-8/erFlQl15Z6g/s1600/himlen2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 219px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6JT0WunVCMk/TWEXZaLLSKI/AAAAAAAAB-8/erFlQl15Z6g/s320/himlen2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575763538951751842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OC9uANaGn_U/TWEXY7H4_OI/AAAAAAAAB-0/SORAIPDBwwk/s1600/Jandy-Nelson_2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 253px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OC9uANaGn_U/TWEXY7H4_OI/AAAAAAAAB-0/SORAIPDBwwk/s320/Jandy-Nelson_2.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575763530616470754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;I really love this youth novel! But I do wonder, what's with 17yrs. old girls and &lt;i&gt;Wutherings heighs&lt;/i&gt;? It seems like every other american novel written for that age group brings up Emily Brönte's book filled with hints for passionate and somehow violent sex. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Mi piace veramente questo romanzo per ragazzi! Ma, mi chiedo, come mai ogni altro libro americano scritto per un pubblico 17enne faccia accenno a &lt;i&gt;Cime Tempestose&lt;/i&gt;? Il romanzo di Emily Brönte carico di suggerimenti a sesso passionale e non poco violento. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-182180564528236124?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/182180564528236124/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=182180564528236124' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/182180564528236124'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/182180564528236124'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/02/sky-is-everywhere.html' title='The sky is everywhere'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6JT0WunVCMk/TWEXZaLLSKI/AAAAAAAAB-8/erFlQl15Z6g/s72-c/himlen2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-3248504431787099178</id><published>2011-02-20T09:39:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-20T14:18:05.951+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The inner cirle</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nzwr045q8fc/TWESmJbTuiI/AAAAAAAAB-s/hllZBWX6hGA/s1600/235983-girl-wearing-headscarf-reading-on-a-window-sill.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 249px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nzwr045q8fc/TWESmJbTuiI/AAAAAAAAB-s/hllZBWX6hGA/s320/235983-girl-wearing-headscarf-reading-on-a-window-sill.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575758260236171810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are three classes on my floor and in every class there are a couple of readings girls. With "reading girls" I mean litterature devouring creatures with their nose in a new YL every other day. An then there is me. You have to look for them in the large corridor, they seat squatting on the wide window sills (we have large windows with wide sills) or curled up in a corner of the couch in the foyé. They do not hear the bell ring, or, if they hear it, they wait until the last fragment of a second to shut the book and come back to reality. We have a special code the handfull of us, yes, because even if everyone of us leads her very private reading existence, we are allowed to visit. I like to keep track sort of speak. So I go up and look under their noses, fold up the cover slightly to read the title, then wink at them and go my way. One may say that I abuse my authority...one may say. They are more respectful of my reading space. They might ask "&lt;i&gt;what are you carrying in your bag today?&lt;/i&gt;" "&lt;i&gt;what are you reading just this very now?&lt;/i&gt;" At times they come breathless and say "&lt;i&gt;awww, I am done reading that one, it went too fast, what shall I do now?&lt;/i&gt;" They know I understand and appreciate their sorrow, almost panic, because I have been there. I am actually there every other day myself. We talk books very badly, : "&lt;i&gt;nooo don't tell the end, I am only halfway&lt;/i&gt;"; "&lt;i&gt;whaaaat, really??? nooooo!!!!&lt;/i&gt;"; "&lt;i&gt;say there is a sequel, please say there is a seque&lt;/i&gt;l". If they think that I am a geek going around reading YL at age 45, they don't let me sense it, at all. Of course  I do not read only YL, but I read a lot of YL! That's it, I am part of an inner circle.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Ci sono tre classi sul mio piano. Ogni classe è frequentata da un paio di ragazzine che amano leggere. Con "amano leggere" intendo: creature che divorano letteratura per ragazzi accucciate sui davanzali delle grandi finestre del nostro corridoio oppurre rannicchiate su uno dei divani della sala in fondo. Non sentono la campanella, oppure la sentono ma attendono fino all'ultima microscopica frazione di secondo per chiudere il libro e ritornare alla realtá scolastica. E poi ci sono io.  Uguale identica, solo (leggi purtroppo) limitata dal mio ruolo di adulta e di insegnante. Ma ci sappiamo. Sappiamo che leggiamo gli stessi libri e ci consultiamo anche se le nostre conversazioni non hanno nulla di culturalmente interpretabile. "&lt;i&gt;noooo, non dirmi come finisce, sono solo a metá&lt;/i&gt;"; "&lt;i&gt;nooooo, coooosa? Davvero? E pooooi?&lt;/i&gt;" "&lt;i&gt;dimmi che uscriá il secondo, dimmi che uscirá il secondo"; "ho pianto fiuuuumi"&lt;/i&gt;. Abbiamo un codice speciale, e sublimemente segreto. Rispettiamo l'esistenza letteraria privata dell'altra, ma siamo completamente consapevoli delle letture del "giro". Io, la piú sfacciata, dato che posso abusare della mia autoritá, mi fermo passando, sollevo leggermente la copertina, sufficientemente per leggerne il titolo e non colpire il naso della lettrice, faccio l'occhiolino e vado avanti. Loro, piú rispettose mi chiedono: "&lt;i&gt;cos'hai nella borsa?&lt;/i&gt;"; "&lt;i&gt;cosa leggi oggi?&lt;/i&gt;". Di tanto in tanto capita che una di loro mi corre incontro, occhi lucidi, mezzo panico: "&lt;i&gt;l'hoooo finito! E´andata troppo veloce, ed ora cosa leggo?&lt;/i&gt;". Sanno che non condannerei mai il loro lutto, che lo capisco dato che ci sono dentro anch'io ogni spesso. Se pensano che sono una ebete a leggere letteratura per ragazzi con lo stesso loro impeto a 45 anni, non me lo danno a vedere. Logicamente non leggo solo letteratura per ragazzi, ma ne leggo parecchia. Faccio parte di un giro segreto. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-3248504431787099178?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/3248504431787099178/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=3248504431787099178' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3248504431787099178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3248504431787099178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/02/inner-cirle.html' title='The inner cirle'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nzwr045q8fc/TWESmJbTuiI/AAAAAAAAB-s/hllZBWX6hGA/s72-c/235983-girl-wearing-headscarf-reading-on-a-window-sill.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-3209234415767347297</id><published>2011-02-19T10:29:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-19T10:34:10.650+01:00</updated><title type='text'>-20 degrees Celsius</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z3c4hqqXawU/TV-OWKjKppI/AAAAAAAAB-k/HbE21nCfGQM/s1600/-20%2Bgrader%2B012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z3c4hqqXawU/TV-OWKjKppI/AAAAAAAAB-k/HbE21nCfGQM/s400/-20%2Bgrader%2B012.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575331375148082834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h7TTbkDaeL4/TV-OV-p0bxI/AAAAAAAAB-c/LZLp_BYObSg/s1600/-20%2Bgrader%2B013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h7TTbkDaeL4/TV-OV-p0bxI/AAAAAAAAB-c/LZLp_BYObSg/s400/-20%2Bgrader%2B013.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575331371954761490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rvZwwpx4Cu8/TV-OVqzTFPI/AAAAAAAAB-U/_bfVpoiPsUg/s1600/-20%2Bgrader%2B001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rvZwwpx4Cu8/TV-OVqzTFPI/AAAAAAAAB-U/_bfVpoiPsUg/s400/-20%2Bgrader%2B001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575331366625809650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mdRtBCX7XOU/TV-OVnuwhCI/AAAAAAAAB-M/c_vvLe0i4lo/s1600/-20%2Bgrader%2B015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mdRtBCX7XOU/TV-OVnuwhCI/AAAAAAAAB-M/c_vvLe0i4lo/s400/-20%2Bgrader%2B015.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575331365801460770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not much change in the scenery around here, but today we have reached -20 and it is worth a post with more snow pictures.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Il paesaggio non è cambiato granchè, ma oggi abbiamo raggiunto i -20 e vale la pena un nuovo post con altre foto su tema neve. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-3209234415767347297?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/3209234415767347297/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=3209234415767347297' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3209234415767347297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3209234415767347297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/02/20-degrees-celsius.html' title='-20 degrees Celsius'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z3c4hqqXawU/TV-OWKjKppI/AAAAAAAAB-k/HbE21nCfGQM/s72-c/-20%2Bgrader%2B012.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-1902977233649081305</id><published>2011-02-16T21:56:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-16T21:59:27.260+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Des hommes et des dieux</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4H49fomgers/TVw6M0mIFfI/AAAAAAAAB-E/0DzTVTkn-WQ/s1600/hommes-et-dieux.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4H49fomgers/TVw6M0mIFfI/AAAAAAAAB-E/0DzTVTkn-WQ/s400/hommes-et-dieux.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574394430729229810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A movie about Love with capital L. Do not miss it and bring the kleenex.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Un film sull'Amore con la A maiuscola. Da non perdere, non dimenticate a casa il fazzoletto.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-1902977233649081305?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/1902977233649081305/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=1902977233649081305' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1902977233649081305'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1902977233649081305'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/02/des-dieux-et-des-hommes.html' title='Des hommes et des dieux'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4H49fomgers/TVw6M0mIFfI/AAAAAAAAB-E/0DzTVTkn-WQ/s72-c/hommes-et-dieux.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-1835824458018838640</id><published>2011-02-15T20:30:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-15T20:42:09.077+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Walking to work</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HCV6yU9RwfI/TVrW8X7kLcI/AAAAAAAAB98/L2DLMkvmYu8/s1600/vinter%2B011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HCV6yU9RwfI/TVrW8X7kLcI/AAAAAAAAB98/L2DLMkvmYu8/s400/vinter%2B011.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574003821528755650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-okz7bYUaEY8/TVrW8EdWG-I/AAAAAAAAB90/g4_Brda4o_s/s1600/vinter%2B009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-okz7bYUaEY8/TVrW8EdWG-I/AAAAAAAAB90/g4_Brda4o_s/s400/vinter%2B009.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574003816301730786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Somebody told me once that chosing the most beautiful way (and not the fastest) to get to work can determine how your day will turn out. I think often about that piece of advice when I walk to work from the tube station.  This scenery is nothing I take for granted.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Qualcuno mi disse un giorno che scegliere la strada piú bella (invece di quella piú veloce) per andare al lavoro puó dare una svolta positiva all'intera giornata. E´un consiglio che seguo ed al quale penso ogni volta che passo il parco dalla stazione alla scuola dove lavoro. Questo paesaggio non è nulla che do'per scontato.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aqEdAId93d4/TVrUpAtiS6I/AAAAAAAAB9s/6QnYtODYAqg/s1600/vinter%2B013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aqEdAId93d4/TVrUpAtiS6I/AAAAAAAAB9s/6QnYtODYAqg/s400/vinter%2B013.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574001289855126434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-1835824458018838640?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/1835824458018838640/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=1835824458018838640' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1835824458018838640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1835824458018838640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/02/walking-to-work.html' title='Walking to work'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HCV6yU9RwfI/TVrW8X7kLcI/AAAAAAAAB98/L2DLMkvmYu8/s72-c/vinter%2B011.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-4437407884963675719</id><published>2011-02-13T10:05:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-13T10:39:17.818+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TVs4e57Gxdg/TVee_Q4RaCI/AAAAAAAAB9k/zkt0uPmcY0o/s1600/emptynest.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 232px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TVs4e57Gxdg/TVee_Q4RaCI/AAAAAAAAB9k/zkt0uPmcY0o/s400/emptynest.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573097873594214434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I wake up saturday morning with just Mats, myself and Joy in the house. I munch on the taste of the &lt;i&gt;empty nest &lt;/i&gt;and must admit to myself that it feels just fine. Sorry kiddoes! This is not bad at all, I walk into a clean shower and I do not have to dry myself on a handkerchief because all the towels are on a pile on someOne's floor, dump. The shampoo bottle is still half full and I do not need to fill up on toilet paper. I put on MY music while Mats walks the dog and I dance to the kitchen, I even attempt a second voice with noone yelling at me to &lt;i&gt;shut it up I am trying to sleep here!&lt;/i&gt; I use my nostrils to check out on smells, nope, no sweaty socks fragrances coming out of the "dorm", just fresh, newly brewed coffee. Mats comes back and we have a loooong breakfast, we clean up the house together and it goes very fast, since the two of us DO bother to put things back in place when we have used them. We prepare lunch for some real nice guests and noone makes his voice heard: "yuueeeeh! You know I haaaate garlic, I can smell it from here". I walk around in my trainers and Mats thinks I look nice in a pony tail. This empty nesting thing is may be not as bad as my friends make it sound? By four o'clock we are done with the experiment and welcome back at least one of the kids who teases me for the pony tail and wonders what's for supper...if you just knew the thoughts I have cherished while you were away, but welcome home anyways sweety.  &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;Mi sveglio sabato mattina con solo Mats e Joy in casa. Assaporo il gusto del &lt;i&gt;nido vuoto&lt;/i&gt; e devo ammettere che mi va piuttosto a genio. Perdonatemi figli miei! Ma non sto soffrendo, proprio per nulla. Entro in una doccia pulita ed il flacone dello sciampo è ancora mezzo pieno. Non devo asciugarmi con un fazzoletto perché tutti gli asciugamati sono in un mucchio umido sul pavimento di qualcUna. Non devo nemmeno correre per prendere un rotolo di carta igienica. Metto su la MIA musica mentre Mats è fuori con il cane e faccio anche un tentativo alla seconda voce senza che nessuno si metta a strillare "&lt;i&gt;silenzio c'è gente che dorme quí!" &lt;/i&gt;Scruto con le narici gli odori, no, non arriva puzza di calzini e sudori vari dal "dormitorio", solo caffé fresco appena fatto. Mats torna e facciamo una luuuunga colazione, poi puliamo la casa insieme e ci mettiamo un attimo dato che noi due abbiamo la buona abitudine di mettere le cose al loro posto dopo averle rimosse. Vado in giro in tuta e Mats dice che sono carina con la coda di cavallo. Preparo il pranzo per degli ospiti simpatici e nesuno esclama esasperato "cheee schiiifo ma quanto aglio stai usando, lo sento da quí". Sta faccenda del nido vuoto forse non è tanto squallida quanto me la raccontano le mie amiche? Per le quattro del pomeriggio l'esperimento è concluso e diamo il benvenuto a casa per lo meno ad uno dei figli. La prima cosa che fa è prendermi in giro per la coda di cavallo ed esclamare :" cosa c'è per cena?"...se solo sapessi i pensieri che mi hanno lusingata quest'oggi mio caro, ma benvenuto a casa ugualmente. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-4437407884963675719?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/4437407884963675719/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=4437407884963675719' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/4437407884963675719'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/4437407884963675719'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-wake-up-saturday-morning-with-just.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TVs4e57Gxdg/TVee_Q4RaCI/AAAAAAAAB9k/zkt0uPmcY0o/s72-c/emptynest.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-5949385185462782878</id><published>2011-02-01T20:41:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-01T21:09:12.284+01:00</updated><title type='text'>LCHF is the word</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TUhjQbcHsKI/AAAAAAAAB9Y/JS2EB4rKavc/s1600/346.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 342px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568810073138376866" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TUhjQbcHsKI/AAAAAAAAB9Y/JS2EB4rKavc/s400/346.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;If it wasn't for a couple of collegues which I esteem pretty high, I would have burst out laughing when they introduced me to LCHF (actually, I probably did). I think they pitied my "low-everything" lunches. The yearly fight with some pounds too many is on. Every february I declare a merciless war. LCHF stands for "low carbs high fat". I know, plenty of people most probably have known this for a decade, but I did not and now I do. It simply works this way: you eat plenty of mayo, whipped cream, rich french cheeses, fat fish and eggs and voilá you lo0se weight like...a dance on rosepetals (and the cholesterole does not complain at all)...just keep away from the carbs as if they were a leper, or less all the pretty fats will bound on to you (and around you and withing you). As I write this I am waiting for my "bread" to bake. it is made out of: cottage cheese, grated cheese, different seeds, oil and baking powder...yummi. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Se non fosse che la dieta mi è stata presentata da un paio di colleghe alle quali sono alquanto legata, sarei scoppiata in una risata quando mi hanno spiegato che cosa è LCHF. Probabilmente facevo loro pena con i miei pranzi contenenti pressochè nulla. Ogni febbraio (da anni :P) dichiaro una guerra senza misericordia al nemico. LCHF significa "low carbs high fat" (= carboidrati bassi, grassi alti). Probabilmente lo sapranno tutti da un decennio, ma io non lo sapevo. E soprattutto non sapevo che funziona davvero. Significa in pratica una dieta a base di maionese a volontá, panna a volontá, formaggi e mozzarelle, pesce grasso, una marea di uova e...voilá... i chili fanno le valige ed il colesterolo non fa neanche una piega. L'unica cosa è mantenere la larga (e mantenerla bene) da ogni tipo di carboidrato, altrimenti i grassi ti si appicciccano addosso e non ti mollano giammai. Scrivo mentre aspetto che il mio "pane" finisca di cuocersi. E´fatto di: formaggio, semi (lino, girasole e sesamo), olio e lievito per le torte (neanche un briciolo di farina)...slurp.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-5949385185462782878?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/5949385185462782878/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=5949385185462782878' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/5949385185462782878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/5949385185462782878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/02/lcrhf-is-word.html' title='LCHF is the word'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TUhjQbcHsKI/AAAAAAAAB9Y/JS2EB4rKavc/s72-c/346.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-2300404648702227582</id><published>2011-01-22T13:47:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-22T13:52:31.341+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Walk</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TTrSeQoZlKI/AAAAAAAAB9Q/JJC-RsZrw5w/s1600/Foto0092.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564991706871993506" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TTrSeQoZlKI/AAAAAAAAB9Q/JJC-RsZrw5w/s400/Foto0092.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TTrSSgsArfI/AAAAAAAAB9I/0FgA91PK07U/s1600/Foto0090.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;mobile upload 11/1/2011. Saturday morning in the field by our neighborood&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Scaricamento dal cellulare 11/1/2011. Passeggiata nel vicinato, sabato mattina&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-2300404648702227582?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/2300404648702227582/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=2300404648702227582' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/2300404648702227582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/2300404648702227582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/01/walk.html' title='Walk'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TTrSeQoZlKI/AAAAAAAAB9Q/JJC-RsZrw5w/s72-c/Foto0092.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-7667771273242490728</id><published>2011-01-21T16:38:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-21T16:45:43.939+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The fifth child</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TTmoh6VuBTI/AAAAAAAAB9A/JB9qimrrRYc/s1600/untitled.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 160px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564664115142460722" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TTmoh6VuBTI/AAAAAAAAB9A/JB9qimrrRYc/s320/untitled.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TTmohobzMiI/AAAAAAAAB84/s_RPfGvXiOc/s1600/fifthchild.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564664110336127522" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TTmohobzMiI/AAAAAAAAB84/s_RPfGvXiOc/s320/fifthchild.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quite amazing how 80 pages can push som many invisible buttons in one's soul.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;With &lt;em&gt;The fifth child &lt;/em&gt;Doris Lessing succedes to paralyse her reader in a mixture of horror and inner search. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Piuttosto incredibile come 80 pagine possano schiacciare tanti invisibili bottoni all'interno dell'anima. Con &lt;em&gt;Il quinto figlio&lt;/em&gt; Doris Lessing riesce a paralizzare il suo lettore in un coktail di orrore e di investigazione interiore non del tutto decifrabile&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-7667771273242490728?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/7667771273242490728/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=7667771273242490728' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7667771273242490728'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7667771273242490728'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/01/fifth-child.html' title='The fifth child'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TTmoh6VuBTI/AAAAAAAAB9A/JB9qimrrRYc/s72-c/untitled.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-9046324472829182270</id><published>2011-01-18T18:07:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-18T18:20:11.900+01:00</updated><title type='text'>I knew it!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TTXJKUX10_I/AAAAAAAAB8w/IQOlsnYPfO0/s1600/mario-vargas-llosa1%255B1%255D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 235px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563574093790696434" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TTXJKUX10_I/AAAAAAAAB8w/IQOlsnYPfO0/s320/mario-vargas-llosa1%255B1%255D.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TTXJKMRKweI/AAAAAAAAB8o/7Wrlv7ICYF8/s1600/1268323471033juliadn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 215px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563574091615224290" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TTXJKMRKweI/AAAAAAAAB8o/7Wrlv7ICYF8/s320/1268323471033juliadn.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TTXJJmkANaI/AAAAAAAAB8g/ZGtx6pRwvpk/s1600/9789113036373_large.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 172px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 270px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563574081493677474" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TTXJJmkANaI/AAAAAAAAB8g/ZGtx6pRwvpk/s320/9789113036373_large.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I knew she was real...somehow...she had to be. Aunt Julia of "Tia Julia y el escribidor" is a reader. Just endure until you can make some sense out of the spider web of stories contained in this book and you shall not regret having read it. My friend Lilianne commented on Facebook that it is amazing how they gave such a fun writer the Nobel prize of litterature. That says it all about the dull reputation of the academy :). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Lo sapevo, lo sapevo che...in qualche modo...era vera. Doveva esserlo. Zia Giulia di "Zia Giulia e lo scribacchino" è da leggere e conoscere. Resistete fino a che non trovate il senso della ragnatela delle storie contenute in questo libro e non vi pentirete di averlo finito. La mia amica Lilianne ha scritto su Facebook che è incredibile come un autore tanto umoristico abbia ricevuto il premio Nobel della letteratura. Il suo commento dice tutto sulla tediositá dell'accademia letteraria :).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-9046324472829182270?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/9046324472829182270/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=9046324472829182270' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/9046324472829182270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/9046324472829182270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-knew-it.html' title='I knew it!'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TTXJKUX10_I/AAAAAAAAB8w/IQOlsnYPfO0/s72-c/mario-vargas-llosa1%255B1%255D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-7937408438670458817</id><published>2011-01-15T10:43:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-15T10:53:53.692+01:00</updated><title type='text'>family ties</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-38aad33cf32418d6" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v17.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D38aad33cf32418d6%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D2486183F9AABDAE5AFCFB963C360396BAD2482A3.3B64A1B50775AC4BE33B409E0212352AB113186D%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D38aad33cf32418d6%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DaNQapL4rGVKJbviBiPE5dnPtGyc&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v17.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D38aad33cf32418d6%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D2486183F9AABDAE5AFCFB963C360396BAD2482A3.3B64A1B50775AC4BE33B409E0212352AB113186D%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D38aad33cf32418d6%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DaNQapL4rGVKJbviBiPE5dnPtGyc&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Probably against my better judgement and running the risk of being shunned by some family members, I have to publish this (I HAVE to publish this????????). One of my uncles did my parents the honour of putting together this video sequence of their 50th wedding anniversary. We "might" not look as if we have our adress at Beverly Hills, but we had much fun together. I am only sorry that the laughter that went on is not heard...Thank you zio Achille.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Probabilmente non dimostro molto discernimento a pubblicare questo e corro sicuramente il rischio di venire scomunicata da alcuni parenti, ma devo farlo(DEVO farlo??????)  Uno zio ha fatto ai miei genitori l'onore di mettere insieme questa sequenza del loro 50esimo anniversario di nozze. Sicuramente non diamo l'idea di vivere a Beverly Hills, ma ci siamo divertiti quel pomeriggio e mi dispiace solo che le risate non si possano sentire...grazie zio Achille.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-7937408438670458817?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/7937408438670458817/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=7937408438670458817' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7937408438670458817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7937408438670458817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/01/family-ties.html' title='family ties'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-6612825282872979632</id><published>2011-01-08T16:39:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-08T16:48:43.096+01:00</updated><title type='text'>My parents' 50th wedding anniversary</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TSiFN96s7II/AAAAAAAAB8Y/8EiOOG4Obw8/s1600/165509_1631934310859_1011661601_31490224_6623812_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559840214994447490" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TSiFN96s7II/AAAAAAAAB8Y/8EiOOG4Obw8/s400/165509_1631934310859_1011661601_31490224_6623812_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-6612825282872979632?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/6612825282872979632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=6612825282872979632' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/6612825282872979632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/6612825282872979632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-parents-50th-wedding-anniversary.html' title='My parents&apos; 50th wedding anniversary'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TSiFN96s7II/AAAAAAAAB8Y/8EiOOG4Obw8/s72-c/165509_1631934310859_1011661601_31490224_6623812_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-3698769095788375356</id><published>2011-01-07T19:46:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-07T19:53:30.616+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TSdfshYLdvI/AAAAAAAAB8Q/C4kOd0mkrEw/s1600/86.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 213px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559517483490834162" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TSdfshYLdvI/AAAAAAAAB8Q/C4kOd0mkrEw/s320/86.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jessica and I wanted to do something unusual today so we treated us to a &lt;em&gt;facial&lt;/em&gt;. It was a first for both of us and we left the place feeling like our cheeks had gotten wings. &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;By the way I am the one in the picture in case you wonder ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jessica ed io volevamo fare qualcosa di insolito oggi e ci siamo regalate il lusso di un trattamento alla faccia. Era la prima volta per entrambe ed abbiamo lasciato l'estetista con l'impressione di avere le ali alle guange. &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;In caso qualcuno se lo chieda, io sono quella della foto quí di fianco ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-3698769095788375356?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/3698769095788375356/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=3698769095788375356' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3698769095788375356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3698769095788375356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/01/jessica-and-i-wanted-to-do-something.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TSdfshYLdvI/AAAAAAAAB8Q/C4kOd0mkrEw/s72-c/86.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-828049353960251926</id><published>2011-01-07T13:32:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-07T13:47:54.029+01:00</updated><title type='text'>"If"  of and by Rudyard Kipling</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-691697408145d152" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v24.nonxt3.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D691697408145d152%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D14CFAADB6F143BE7F5AA62CB7D098EC442785AAD.3CF3DA4D6F836D9DB432C24A1C9D82ED78E34A18%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D691697408145d152%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3Dj886NUJLLLAI5ISjmf3yHaZGKXM&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v24.nonxt3.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D691697408145d152%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D14CFAADB6F143BE7F5AA62CB7D098EC442785AAD.3CF3DA4D6F836D9DB432C24A1C9D82ED78E34A18%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D691697408145d152%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3Dj886NUJLLLAI5ISjmf3yHaZGKXM&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-828049353960251926?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/828049353960251926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=828049353960251926' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/828049353960251926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/828049353960251926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2011/01/if-of-and-by-rudyard-kipling.html' title='&quot;If&quot; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559403432418960626" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TSb394BrZPI/AAAAAAAAB8I/ZvPFivquYrw/s400/Foto0014.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TSb31seMXxI/AAAAAAAAB8A/61Shz1nKNxA/s1600/Foto0016.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TSb31vVhW2I/AAAAAAAAB74/dkvJH9yVEhU/s1600/Foto0015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559403292647316322" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TSb31vVhW2I/AAAAAAAAB74/dkvJH9yVEhU/s400/Foto0015.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are days when I need a booster, an encouragement as such. There are things, small things that happen at times that I sense are there just for me, that very moment. This blog is about the small things that make life unique and meaningfull, so this is the place to tell. I know (most times) that I am being carried through earthly life by sovereign arms, a few times every year I recognize that someOne knows me that well and that deep to give me a special gift, which is most probably recognized by noone but me and thus making it even more intimate and precious. Walking a street in my gloomy birthtown, feeling hopelessly sorry for myself and very much alone is unfortunately a common sensation. This very day I head to a bookshop I've always liked in search for soothing. The shop's named "A place to think", the lady-owner allowes us costumers to sit around as long as we like and read her books while we listen to folk music. That is good for my aching soul just now. I sit in a low chair in the children's section and catch back with an effort feel-sorry-for-myself-tears as I read Kipling's "&lt;em&gt;If, poem for fathers&lt;/em&gt;" in an illustrated book. Ouch, the afternoon is not promising and I am well aware that I am in a public place. Somehow a-feel-good-sensation is there somewhere, trying to make its way and I almost enjoy the ache from within. As I leave the "place to think" I see that just opposite, the little theatre Bibiena from the 1700s' is open to the public for a visit. I pay my 2 euros and as I enter that jewel the tears stop ask for permission and start to flow, freely. What a lovely place, declares my soul. And here I am looking, sensing, touching the wood and the velvet of the chairs and taking in the atmosphere. I am almost alone in this beautiful place but thank goodness the lightning is dim so noone notices. I am in a sanctuary of reason and art, yet I praise&lt;em&gt;. &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;It's for you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; says the wisper within my heart. I lose track of time and am stirred back to reality by the entrance of a chattering group of elderly ladies with sore feet and a determined tour-guide. They head straight to the comfy chairs and I start to gather my things (I had made myself very much at home) and get ready to leave sorry for the interruption. But when the lady-guide starts to tell of the theatre I can't go anywhere. I know I probably am the one who is now intruding, but I have to listen to this spirited, funny and incredibly knowledged lady who tells of the 1600 and 1700s' as if it were today. What an history teacher she would make! This lady lifts my crashed spirit and fills up my thirst and curiosity in a truly delightful way. Within the few hours of one single afternoon I have wondered from a place to think, to a place of soothing and of refilling. Everything wihin a few yards. One of those days, one of those rendez-vous with my very own soul. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333399;"&gt;DUE EURO PER UN ANIMO IN PENA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#333399;"&gt;Ci sono giorni quando mi serve una spinta, un incoraggiamento insomma. Ci sono cose, piccolezze, che accadono a volte esclusivamente per se stessi e per uno scopo preciso. Questo blog è dedicato alle piccole cose che rendono la vita unica e le danno un senso. Per questo motivo, questa storia va inserita qui. Il piú delle volte sono consapevole che vivo questa vita terrena trasportata da braccia sovrane. Un paio di volte l'anno, forse tre ma raramente di piú, vivo momenti che mi dimostrano che c'è qualcUno che mi conosce tanto profondamente da farmi dei piccoli regali, cosí insignificanti ad altri da renderli ancora piú intimi e preziosi per la sottoscritta. Camminare per la strada della mia malincolica cittá nativa sentento l'autocommiserazione che aumenta con ogni passo e provando una miserabile solitudine è purtroppo un'esperienza che si ripete. In questo particolare giorno mi incamminai verso un negozio di libri che mi é sempre piaciuto proprio in cerca di sollievo per il mio animo in pena. Il negozio si chiama "Il Pensatoio" e la padrona è tanto generosa da far restare i suoi clienti quanto vogliono, da lasciarli sedere dove desiderano a sfogliare i suoi libri mentre ascoltano musica popolare. Mi ero seduta su una sedia molto bassa e scomoda nel reparto per bambini a leggere la poesia "Se, &lt;em&gt;lettera al figlio&lt;/em&gt;" di Kipling in un volume illustrato, ben cosciente di trovarmi in un luogo pubblico e quindi di non poter lasciar spazio alle lacrime che volevano farsi strada. Aiuto, sto pomeriggio non promette bene. Lasciando "Il Pensatoio" mi accorsi che dall'altra parte della strada il teatrino scientifico settecentesco di Antonio Bibiena era aperto al pubblico. Pagati 2 semplici euro entrai in questo gioiello e non potei piú frenare le lacrime che da un bel po' chiedevano di scendere in piena libertá. Per fortuna il luogo era quasi vuoto e le luci soffuse. Che bel posto, dichiarava il mio cuore mentre guardavo, ascoltavo e toccavo il legno delle pareti ed il velluto delle poltroncine. Mi trovavo in un santuario di arte e cultura, tuttavia adoravo&lt;em&gt;. &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;E´per te&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/em&gt;diceva un sussurro nel mio spirito. Persi la cognizione del tempo e venni riportata alla realtá dalle voci di un gruppo di donne anziane con tanto di messa in piega e piedi doloranti e con a capo una guida dall'aspetto militare. Appena addocchiate le poltroncine di velluto vi ci si buttarono sopra sicuramente determinate a starci un bel pó nel "mio" teatrino. Iniziai allora a racimolare le mie cose (mi ero sistemata bene) per lasciare il teatro non poco rammaricata per l'interruzione, quando la signora-guida inizió a raccontare rendendomi impossibile ogni tipo movimento. Quella signora raccontava del '600 e del '700 come se fosse ora ora. Che insegnante di storia sarebbe! Cosciente di essere io ora a fare l'intrusa rimasi comunque ad ascoltare e lasciare che questa cara signora sollevasse il mio animo abbattuto e soddisfacesse la mia sete e la mia curiositá in maniera del tutto deliziosa. Nelle poche ore di un pomeriggio nebbioso mi mossi da un pensatoio ad un posto di calma e di ricarica, nel giro di pochi metri . Uno di quei due tre giorni ogni anno, uno di quegli appuntamenti con il mio spirito. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-3742593876312262993?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/3742593876312262993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=3742593876312262993' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3742593876312262993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3742593876312262993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TRd-73NY4HI/AAAAAAAAB7Q/XHM3EnlUn2s/s72-c/annandagjul%2B2010%2B044.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-8524952184680681941</id><published>2010-12-25T12:56:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-25T12:56:57.444+01:00</updated><title type='text'>For me?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TRXb_x_yMDI/AAAAAAAAB6E/uKiPWnhtgII/s1600/jul2010%2B028.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554587604230484018" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TRXb_x_yMDI/AAAAAAAAB6E/uKiPWnhtgII/s400/jul2010%2B028.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-8524952184680681941?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/8524952184680681941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=8524952184680681941' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8524952184680681941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8524952184680681941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/12/for-me.html' title='For me?'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TRXb_x_yMDI/AAAAAAAAB6E/uKiPWnhtgII/s72-c/jul2010%2B028.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-1715643348959148620</id><published>2010-12-23T08:48:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-23T08:55:32.838+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>I know it is christmas and not easter, but to me the whole story hangs together making perfect sense. &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#993300;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;BLESSED CHRISTMAS EVERYONE.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#993300;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo so che è natale e non pasqua, ma per me la storia intera è collegata avendo completamente senso. &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993300;"&gt;UN SERENO NATALE A TUTTI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-24044ec3c308dc32" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" 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href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=1715643348959148620' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1715643348959148620'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1715643348959148620'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/12/i-know-it-is-christmas-and-not-easter.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-7272635446895730909</id><published>2010-12-22T12:23:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-22T12:32:16.779+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Leave﻿ the liver lily and leave lovely liverlellie lily love! :D﻿</title><content type='html'>Swedish comedians make fun of "my" Jane Austen. But it is so funny that probably Jane herself would choke in laughter. Watch!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comici svedesi prendono in giro "la mia" Jane Austen :D. Da guardare fino alla fine se si capisce un poco d'inglese (e si conosce un poco di Jane).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-4625c1617e060b76" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v10.nonxt3.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D4625c1617e060b76%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D318D95C2BE8CD6F4945180D456130060FDE28B76.43742BE84BEB5DE2FE53D544F621739CC39519F2%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D4625c1617e060b76%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3De7xRP9DSXIBesF8oZhReNKxh1Kw&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v10.nonxt3.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D4625c1617e060b76%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D318D95C2BE8CD6F4945180D456130060FDE28B76.43742BE84BEB5DE2FE53D544F621739CC39519F2%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D4625c1617e060b76%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3De7xRP9DSXIBesF8oZhReNKxh1Kw&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-7272635446895730909?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/7272635446895730909/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=7272635446895730909' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7272635446895730909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7272635446895730909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/12/leave-liver-lily-and-leave-lovely.html' title='Leave﻿ the liver lily and leave lovely liverlellie lily love! :D﻿'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-7974689215732366098</id><published>2010-12-22T09:11:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-22T09:31:47.840+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Who's guilty?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TRG3aTRMqdI/AAAAAAAAB5w/tK1XXQy2rJM/s1600/Saffransbullar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 126px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553421478001420754" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TRG3aTRMqdI/AAAAAAAAB5w/tK1XXQy2rJM/s200/Saffransbullar.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I went to bed a rug and woke up a new person. The house's decently clean and the whole 73mq are to myself. Came in after a long walk with Joy. It is freezing cold outside and it is still snowing. I honestly do not know where we can put all this snow, the sides of the roads are a mountain- chain of snow leaving hardly any space for pedestrians. I came in, put on the coffee, switched on the dishwasher, poured some musli in a bowl, chatted to the dog, opened the freezer to get out some bread, and what do I find? One of the two bags of Christmas baking is half full! Hadn't I threatened enough not to touch &lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000066;"&gt;no no no&lt;/span&gt; until Christmas eve? Aaaaargh, who is the guilty one? Could be anyone of the three individuals sharing these quarters with me, and I shall find out, I shall...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Sono andata a letto ieri sera che ero uno straccio e mi sono svegliata questa mattina una nuova persona. La casa è decentemente pulita ed ho tutti i 73mq per me. Sono rientrata da poco dopo una lunga passeggiata con Joy, il cane. Fa freddissimo fuori e nevica ancora. Sinceramente non so dove metteremo tutta questa neva, i marciapiedi sono una catena montuosa di neve ammucchiata lasciando pochissimo spazio ai passanti. Comunque, sono entrata in casa, ho messo su il caffé, acceso la lavastoviglie chiacchierando con Joy,versato del musli nella mia ciotola di porcellana bianca e blu, aperto il congelatore per tirare fuori del pane e cosa ho trovato? Una delle due buste di plastica contenenti le paste di natale mezza vuota. Non ero stata sufficientemente chiara dopo un pomeriggio al forno, di non toccare, &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;no no&lt;/span&gt;, fino alla vigila? Aaaaaaaarg chi è il colpevole? Potrebbe essere chiunque dei tre individui che vivono quí con me e lo scopriró, di certo lo scopriró....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-7974689215732366098?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/7974689215732366098/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=7974689215732366098' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7974689215732366098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7974689215732366098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/12/whos-guilty.html' title='Who&apos;s guilty?'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TRG3aTRMqdI/AAAAAAAAB5w/tK1XXQy2rJM/s72-c/Saffransbullar.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-4558891488266093065</id><published>2010-12-19T13:45:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-19T13:52:44.988+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;A real neat video trailer of a real neat YA. Enjoy and read the books.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Un simpatico trailer di una simpatica serie per giovani. Godete e leggete i libri.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-eb625327c89d94ed" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v13.nonxt5.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3Deb625327c89d94ed%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D696B98CA3FC0AEF76A712AE6F4EAB82B8D5CB18D.26D7EB0C261B37C0403C5A309B8E6DE17BA9AD33%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Deb625327c89d94ed%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DT2ED1FxnGJKpfwsPrMQw2fcmxUA&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v13.nonxt5.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3Deb625327c89d94ed%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D696B98CA3FC0AEF76A712AE6F4EAB82B8D5CB18D.26D7EB0C261B37C0403C5A309B8E6DE17BA9AD33%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3Deb625327c89d94ed%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DT2ED1FxnGJKpfwsPrMQw2fcmxUA&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-4558891488266093065?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/4558891488266093065/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=4558891488266093065' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/4558891488266093065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/4558891488266093065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/12/real-neat-video-trailer-of-real-neat-ya.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-8125591279202600759</id><published>2010-12-18T11:26:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-18T12:41:34.307+01:00</updated><title type='text'>term evaluation...clap clap</title><content type='html'>At the risk of being stinkingly subjective here it comes. I walk the dog in the snow and evaluate my class this first term. It is the stuff that teachers do in their minds before closing things up for Christmas. I have had a few visitors to the class during the past days, parents with their children checking our school up. It seems that our school is getting some kind of "good reputation". A good reputation is a very funny phenomenom, it usually comes from nowhere, from something-someone-has-said-sometime and it spreads rapidly for a good while. A good reputation is hard to break until, all of a sudden and out of nowhere, something happens that makes the good name of a very normal school go down in the mud. So I do not surf on the reputation thing... at all...ehm... much. But here I am playing good teacher in front of scrutinizing eyes and dropping jaws. My class? Hu &lt;em&gt;they play no noting&lt;/em&gt;...they just are and that is what I evaluate while Joy pooes and pees. I have a lively class. Lively teacher = lively students, the equation is simple. I watch (and smile) some of my collegues who also teach my class, swallow double coffees and stretch their neck muscles before they enter my sanctuary. When I was training to become a teacher I spent a lot of time thinking and reading and writing about the meaning of the classroom's environment, how it should reflect a good and healthy society where the students sense their freedom and their boundaries. That is how I want my class to be and that is what I wish to believe they are. As they stand to present themselves (to the visitors of the past days), they don't just give out their name sheepishly and seat down again, noway, they give complicated explanations of the meaning of their names, their root and pronunciation (jaw dropping from the adults). They do not refrain from making fun of my italian inhability of pronouncing H at the beginning of a word and of calling out on EEEEErik instead of Henrik when I am upset, or mixing up U with Y when we have dictation, yet they come to this same teacher with thousands of "honest" apologies when they do wrong or forget an assignment. They are not afraid of speaking out their minds, they forget of course far too easily to raise their hand to ask to speak, but they feel free to protest and revolt when injustice is a fact, yet silence rules when they read, write, think, write a test and listen to an explanation. They stubbornly sing "happy birthday" in eight of the languages represented until the ice-cream is a melted mess. Therefore my class is exactly where I want them to be and my hopes are high to see come out of this lively bunch 24 individuals who:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;are proud of their names and their origin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;use their imagination and creativity in every situation in life&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;speak out their mind&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;laugh a great deal&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;are happy with themselves&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;can interact with everyone without having to push others down in order to be seen.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;take responsiblity for their work and studies&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;I fear we do not impress much on our visitors whose expectations of the-heard-of-very-good-school are of law and order, but my expactions are well met after a first term.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Correndo il rischio di essere completamente soggettiva, scrivo ugualmente. Esco con il cane e valuto il quadrimestre. E´ció che fanno gli insegnanti nelle loro teste prima delle vacanze di natale. Ho avuto diverse visite in classe negli ultimi giorni, genitori con i loro figli che sono interessati alla nostra scuola. In qualche misterioso modo, la nostra scuola sta assumendo una buona reputazione nella zona. La buona reputazione è un fenomeno alquanto strano, spunta da nessuno-sa-dove e nessuno-sa-di-preciso-per-cosa e permane per un tempo prolungato, poi di colpo, per un niente, il buon nome di una scuola del tutto normale crolla dalle stelle al fango. Per questo non mi lascio trasportare (troppo) da una buona reputazione. Ma dato questo fenomeno, eccomi a giocare alla &lt;em&gt;brava maestra&lt;/em&gt; sotto gli occhi scrutinatori di questi ospiti (e le loro bocche spalancate). I miei alunni? Ah! &lt;em&gt;Altroché giocare ai bravi alunni.&lt;/em&gt; E´questo che valuto mentre Joy fa cacca e pipí. Ho una classe vivace. Insegnante vivace=alunni vivaci, l'equazione è semplice. Osservo (e sorrido) i miei colleghi che insegnano alcune materie da me, mentre buttano giú caffé doppi e stirano i muscoli del collo, prima di entrare nel mio santuario. Quando studiavo al magistero trascorrevo molto tempo a riflettere, leggere e scrivere sulla mia convinzione che un'aula deve essere lo specchio di una societá sana dove gli alunni sono consapevoli ed usufruiscono della propria libertá di esprimersi ed anche dei propri limiti. E´cosí che desidero la mia classe ed è cosí che voglio credere che sia. E´per questo che quando si presentano, si spalancano le bocche degli ospiti, perchè non si limitano ad alzarsi, dire il proprio nome, e risedersi. Invece si immergono in comizi sul significato e la radice dei propri nomi, e sulla corretta pronuncia. Ne approfittano per prendere in giro la maestra che con i suoi limiti di accento italiano si dimentica la H e butta fuori EEEEEErik invece di HHHenrik quando è arrabbiata e che mescola le Y con le U quando detta. La stessa maestra alla quale si presentano con la testa bassa e mille scuse "oneste" quando dimenticano un compito od una verifica. Alunni che non hanno paura di dire il proprio pensiero davanti a tutti seppur dimenticando troppo spesso di alzare la mano. Che si rivoltano senza scrupoli e protestano di fronte ad un'ingiustizia di fatto e che allo stesso tempo lasciano calare il silenzio quando scrivono, leggono, fanno un compito in classe od ascoltano una spiegazione. Sono cosí testardi che voglio a tutti costi cantare "tanti auguri a te" in otto delle lingue rappresentate in classe (svedese, inglese, russo, spagnolo, polacco, lituano, ugurico, italiano) anche se il gelato si sciolgie in una polpa irriconoscibile. Per questo la mia classe è esattamente come la voglio e nutro grandi speranze per i 24 individui che la popolano, perchè continuino a:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;essere orgogliosi del proprio nome e della propria origine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;usare immaginazione e creativitá in ogni opportunitá&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;dire cosa pensano senza timore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;ridere un sacco&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;essere contenti di se stessi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;poter socializzare con chiunque senza dover sopprimere altri per elevare se stessi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;assumere responsablitá per i propri studi e per il proprio lavoro. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Mi sa che non abbiamo troppo impresso i nostri ospiti degli ultimi giorni. Probabilmente si aspettavano che questa scuola-dal-buon-nome fosse popolata da alunni attenti e silenziosi ma le mie aspettative dopo questo primo quadrimestre sono completamente soddisfatte.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-8125591279202600759?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/8125591279202600759/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=8125591279202600759' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8125591279202600759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8125591279202600759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/12/term-evaluationclap-clap.html' title='term evaluation...clap clap'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-8438415699491410351</id><published>2010-12-04T12:57:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-04T13:16:29.629+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Amicizia</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1979&lt;/strong&gt;, due ragazzine appena adolescenti si chiudono nella camera da letto della casa in montagna dell'una. Insieme scrivono su un pezzo di carta promettendosi amicizia eterna e di accompagnarsi a vicenda all'altare come testimoni nel giorno di matrimonio. Il messaggio arrotolato e infilato tra due travi del soffitto, è ancora lí. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1988&lt;/strong&gt; una delle due ragazze si sposa ed al suo fianco si presenta fedelmente la sua amica come testimone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2010&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; questa mattina mi ha svegliato il telefono. Era Paola che urlava su Skipe da Piacenza (non ci sentivamo da due anni) "è arrivato il momento, sei libera ad aprile?" Mi è bastato un attimo per capire. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1979&lt;/strong&gt; two young girls, barely teen-agers lock themselves up in a bedroom in the mountains of northern Italy. They write on a piece of paper pledging eternal friendship and that they would be maids of honour at eachother's wedding one day. They fold the piece of paper and hide it between to beams on the ceiling. It is still there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1988 &lt;/strong&gt;one of the two gets married and her friend is faithfully by her side as maid of honour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2010&lt;/strong&gt; this morning I was awaken by the phone. It was Paola screaming on Skipe from Piacenza (we hadn't spoken in two years) "the time has come, are you available in april?" It took only a second for me to understand.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-8438415699491410351?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/8438415699491410351/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=8438415699491410351' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8438415699491410351'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8438415699491410351'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/12/1979-due-ragazzine-appena-adolescenti.html' title='Amicizia'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-8005773830893156421</id><published>2010-12-04T12:06:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-04T12:57:36.419+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TPoh2n5-gyI/AAAAAAAAB5o/iVzFgdNvqxA/s1600/il-pane-di-ieri-1408439.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 205px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546783113368994594" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TPoh2n5-gyI/AAAAAAAAB5o/iVzFgdNvqxA/s320/il-pane-di-ieri-1408439.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are very few joys imparted a dark early morning in a grey underground environment. The feeling of anticipation that a book in a tote bag gives me is one of those tiny sparkles of joy. I spend three hours in the sub daily. It is in the sub I mark tests, balancing them acrobatically on my lap which is already occupied by a couple of tote bags (they get wet and dirty if I put them on the floor), prepare lessons (same acrobatic enterprise), send text-messeges and...read many books. The last couple of mornings I have been reading "&lt;em&gt;Il pane di ieri&lt;/em&gt;" (=yesterday's bread). Holding up the volume to eye-level made me very self counscious and aware of some passengers' curious looks. The elderly man on the cover (the writer himself and a munk) looks stern indeed. Some probably thought I was part of a sect or something (the red jackets' sect may be?) I have checked Enzo Bianchi up on Youtube and found out that he has indeed angry eyes even when he talks. The book is "so-so" and I still wonder what made it win the prize that is reported on the cover (can't remember which prize). In my not-at-all-modest opinion he falls exactly into what he assures his reader in the preface that he won't fall into: the old polemic of "&lt;em&gt;it was better before&lt;/em&gt;". It becomes like chanting, and I do not like chanting. The last two chapters show and improvement, and I enjoyed them better. That is when Bianchi decides (is it a conscious choice?) to let go of his starched collar and to reveal more of himself. I happen not to like stingy writers either. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;P.S. I never consider reading a book I do not like a waste of time. Every book that is read from cover to cover is a conquest and a learning experience. That is what I teach my 5th graders every single day. That is what I live by.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Ci sono ben poche gioie in una fredda mattina, nel grigio mondo della metropolitana. Il senso di aspettativa che un libro nella borsa di iuta mi trasmette, è una di quelle piccole gioie. Trascorro tre ore ogni giorno nella metro. E´lí che inizio la mia giornata lavorativa; correggo compiti tenendoli in bilico con la destrezza di un acrobata sulle mie ginocchia, giá occuate da un paio di borse di iuta (apoggiandole per terra si bagnerebbo e sporcherebbero), preparo lezioni (stessa abilitá acrobatica), mando messaggi al cellulare...e leggo, parecchi libri. Le ultime due mattine avevo tra le mani "&lt;em&gt;Il pane di ieri&lt;/em&gt;" di Enzo Bianchi. Leggendo il volume ero non poco consapevole delle occhiate furtive e curiose di alcuni passeggeri; il volto dell'autore (e monaco) ritratto in copertina è parecchio severo. Probabilmente pensavano appartenessi ad una setta di qualche tipo (la setta delle giacche rosse?) Ho controllato Enzo Bianchi su Utube ed a mio rammarico ho potuto constatare che anche quando parla ha gli occhi arrabbiati. Mi fanno paura gli occhi arrabbiati. Il libro è "cosí cosí". Ancora non capisco come ha vinto il premio descritto in copertina (non ricordo che premio). A mio per-niente-modesto-parere, Bianchi cade nella trappola che lui stesso promette in premessa al lettore di non sfiorare, la polemica del "era meglio una volta". Diventa come una cantilena nel corso del libro, e le cantilene non mi vanno a genio. Gli ultimi due capitoli fanno una svolta. Lí si scopre Bianchi che si slaccia il colletto inamidato. Non so se è una svolta volontariarmente generosa. Non mi vanno a genio nemmeno gli scrittori avari. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;P.S. non sono del parere che leggere un libro mezzo segato sia una perdita di tempo. Ogni libro letto da copertina a copertina è una conquista ed una lezione di vita. Questo è quello che insegno giornalmente alla mia quinta e quello che cerco di vivere di persona.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-8005773830893156421?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/8005773830893156421/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=8005773830893156421' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8005773830893156421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8005773830893156421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/12/there-are-very-few-joys-imparted-dark.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TPoh2n5-gyI/AAAAAAAAB5o/iVzFgdNvqxA/s72-c/il-pane-di-ieri-1408439.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-8787431856063987879</id><published>2010-11-20T21:39:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-20T21:41:29.330+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TOgyJf1ycLI/AAAAAAAAB5Q/gbfh5jFd_eA/s1600/76032_1566283829638_1011661601_31366484_464822_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 250px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541734480226709682" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TOgyJf1ycLI/AAAAAAAAB5Q/gbfh5jFd_eA/s320/76032_1566283829638_1011661601_31366484_464822_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TOgyG4CsstI/AAAAAAAAB5I/hs1noY1r0ho/s1600/76329_10150312753285029_698480028_15593027_7864752_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541734435183702738" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TOgyG4CsstI/AAAAAAAAB5I/hs1noY1r0ho/s320/76329_10150312753285029_698480028_15593027_7864752_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Same ladies, "few" years apart.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#000099;"&gt;Le stesse ragazze a "qualche" anno di distanza&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-8787431856063987879?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/8787431856063987879/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=8787431856063987879' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8787431856063987879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8787431856063987879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/11/same-ladies-few-years-apart.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TOgyJf1ycLI/AAAAAAAAB5Q/gbfh5jFd_eA/s72-c/76032_1566283829638_1011661601_31366484_464822_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-7617892696324321742</id><published>2010-11-20T21:05:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-20T21:30:27.448+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Panorama ligure</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TOgrFMb8lAI/AAAAAAAAB5A/g1dXG2hwfdQ/s1600/Cinque%252520Terre.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541726709717177346" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TOgrFMb8lAI/AAAAAAAAB5A/g1dXG2hwfdQ/s400/Cinque%252520Terre.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; When Scandinavia is at the door-steps of winter many of us sense the urge to "dream away". Once winter has started we just resign and even enjoy it, but the knowledge that darkness and cold will be our companions for so many weeks ahead can be troublesome, to say the least. In days such as today Mats and I decide to move to the mediterranean coast. It is a very solemn decision. We google up real estate agencies and employment offices. A couple of winters ago I even mailed and applied to some of these weird organizations. This activity takes a couple of hours, we find the most interesting schools for me to teach in and ships for Mats to sail, not to mention the most picturesque sights to live in (some without a roof). Then everything goes back to normal and we tell eachother what a good thing it is that we changed the tires of the car before the first snow-fall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Quando la Scandinavia è alle soglie dell'inverno molti di noi provano la necessitá di sognarsi lontano. Una volta iniziato l'inverno ci si rassegna e si arriva anche a godere la stagione. E´la consapevolezza di avere di fronte tante settimane di buio e di gelo che scoraggia non poco. In giorni come questo io e Mats decidiamo di trasferirci sulla costa mediterranea. E´una decisione molto solenne. "Googgliamo" le scuole piú svariate dove io potrei insegnare e le agenzie marittime piú incredibili dove Mats potrebbe lavorare e poi cerchiamo casa. Troviamo i posti piú pittoreschi dove vivere, baite senza tetto, progetti da restaurare. Un paio di inverni fa avevo addittura scritto ad alcune di queste agenzie misteriose. Poi, dopo un pó, tutto torna alla normalitá e ci diciamo "meno male che abbiamo cambiato i pneumatici prima della prima nevicata".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-7617892696324321742?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/7617892696324321742/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=7617892696324321742' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7617892696324321742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7617892696324321742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/11/panorama-ligure.html' title='Panorama ligure'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TOgrFMb8lAI/AAAAAAAAB5A/g1dXG2hwfdQ/s72-c/Cinque%252520Terre.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-8419285893846462271</id><published>2010-11-20T20:37:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-20T20:57:22.083+01:00</updated><title type='text'>L'élegance du hérisson</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TOgkV4roVZI/AAAAAAAAB44/Y-NTZsFxhW0/s1600/untitled.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 120px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 189px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541719299890632082" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TOgkV4roVZI/AAAAAAAAB44/Y-NTZsFxhW0/s320/untitled.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TOgkVhhDJhI/AAAAAAAAB4w/D-_Jh9jCBRY/s1600/imagesCA8DTI06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 264px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 191px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541719293672236562" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TOgkVhhDJhI/AAAAAAAAB4w/D-_Jh9jCBRY/s320/imagesCA8DTI06.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Elegance of the hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery is good reading. Very french. I read it in swedish with a french accent all the way through, translating the words in my head. This is not a book to be read in translation if you know french. It makes you want to go around in a pair of woolen slippers with a copy of "Anna Karenina" under one arm. I went to a second hand book shop this morning and came home with three books, one is a copy of "Anna Karenina". When I went to my overfull library I found out that I already own a copy of AK. But that is what Barbery does to you I guess, she makes you long for some Tolstoj, with a french accent. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;"L'eleganza del riccio" è lettura buona. Molto francese. Ho letto il libro in svedese con l'accento francese, traducendo le parole nella mia testa. Questo non è un libro da leggere tradotto se si conosce la lingua originale. Ti fa venire voglia di un paio di pantofole di lana e di una copia di "Anna Karenina" da portare sotto il braccio. Stamane sono andata in un antiquariato di libri. Sono rientrata con tre libri, uno era "Anna Karenina". Quando sono andata per metterlo nella mia libreria sovraffolata mi sono accorta che c'era giá una copia di "Anna Karenina". E´quello che Barbery ti offre, ti fa desiderare un poco di Tolstoj, con l'accento francese. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-8419285893846462271?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/8419285893846462271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=8419285893846462271' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8419285893846462271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8419285893846462271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/11/lelegance-du-herisson.html' title='L&apos;élegance du hérisson'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TOgkV4roVZI/AAAAAAAAB44/Y-NTZsFxhW0/s72-c/untitled.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-4689783143225127862</id><published>2010-11-14T14:26:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-14T14:47:57.119+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Recipe</title><content type='html'>There are many good examples and answers to the question "what makes a marriage work?". My answer today is &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"&gt;new shoe laces on my old winter boots&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. It works like this: 1) You get up on saturday morning. 2) You look out the&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TN_j4N_mSeI/AAAAAAAAB4I/vt45WleyLzs/s1600/dsc04200_1164209982.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539396621657590242" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TN_j4N_mSeI/AAAAAAAAB4I/vt45WleyLzs/s320/dsc04200_1164209982.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; window to see that everything is white and frosty. 3) You ask yourself where you placed your winter boots last spring. 4) You start remembering that you put them away without shoe laces (the salt they pour in the streets here in winter chews up shoelaces like licorice). 5) You go by the shoe shelf and see your old boots with new shoe laces on. That easy? I call it depth of love and gratitude for the small things in married life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esistono numerosi esempi e parecchie risposte alla domanda "cosa fa funzionare un matrimonio?" La mia risposta oggi è &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;lacci nuovi sui miei vecchi scarponi&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Funziona cosí: 1) ti alzi il sabato maattina e guardi fuori dalla finestra. 2) ti accorgi che tutto è bianco e gelato. 3)Ti chiedi dove avevi messo gli scarponi la scorsa primavera. 4) Ti ricordi di averli messi via senza lacci (il sale che spargono per le strade d'inverno mastica i lacci delle scarpe come liquirizia). 5) Passi dall'entrata e vedi i tuoi vecchi scarponi con tanto di lacci nuovi. Cosí semplice? E´quello che chiamo la profonditá dell' amore e della gratitudine per le piccole cose della vita insieme.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-4689783143225127862?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/4689783143225127862/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=4689783143225127862' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/4689783143225127862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/4689783143225127862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/11/recepie.html' title='Recipe'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TN_j4N_mSeI/AAAAAAAAB4I/vt45WleyLzs/s72-c/dsc04200_1164209982.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-5455417247927333889</id><published>2010-11-07T09:00:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-07T09:53:33.745+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Of geese and the like</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNZcxVP-BGI/AAAAAAAAB34/I-YGsxv3CZE/s1600/g%25E4ssen%2520flytta.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 120px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536714794486072418" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNZcxVP-BGI/AAAAAAAAB34/I-YGsxv3CZE/s400/g%25E4ssen%2520flytta.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is a beautiful morning, indeed it is. I walk Joy after three days in bed with the flue. I go on unsteady legs but the sun is drawing me and so I go further and further with Joy pulling me helpfully on the leash. I pass the field where the geese are assembled before their flight to warmer countries. The earth is already hard and the grass is covered with frost. Warm steam goes from my mouth as I stop to catch my breath. It's what they call deja-vu or whatever, I just know I have stand here on the same spot watching the geese many a fall. They always fly to this spot in V formations, very low upon our heads. They stay here a few days calling out constantly, not all at once, just two or three at once (I presume). It is fascinating. Some stay back and endure the winter, not many, just a handful. I do not know why, may be I should consult a bird-book or a ornithologist...is that what they call them? Well, may be I am not that scientifically interested. It is more of a H.C Andersen and Thumbelina kind of thing for a simpleton like me. The flue makes me walk slower and think longer while I do the walking one leg at a time, that's one of the good things about being weak, probably the only good thing...that I give myself time. This place, all around is so full of us. What was meant to be temporary has turned out to be the most permanent we have ever had on this side of eternity. I do not know what's with time, what does that I push a stroller the other day, chase a rebellious teen the next and seat at the kitchen table to drink tea with a grown-up woman today. We have lost so many memories. It is simply impossible to keep them all. Some are in plastic bags and shoe boxes in the cellar, we have never been good in putting photos in albums. Others are written in my diaries of the past, which I never write anymore since I got an audience of one or two who read this blog thing and that is somehow incredibly flattering. But this place and our 73 qm hold most of the memories for us, for me. And, I know, I shall be forever connected to the field, the park, the store, the street, the bus-stop...every single corner actually. And, while I think I see that Joy is holding in her gap a sausage-like something and it takes my fuzzy mind a couple more seconds to realize that it is a frozen piece of s... from the geese.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;E´una bellissima mattina. Porto fuori Joy dopo tre giorni d'influenza. Cammino su gambe instabili, ma il sole mi attrae a se e vado sempre piú in la'. Joy mi aiuta tirando il guinzaglio. Passo il campo dove le oche si riuniscono prima della partenza verso paesi caldi. La terra è giá dura e l'erba è coperta di brina. Il respiro mi esce a nuvolette calde mentre me ne sto ferma a riprendere il fiato. E´forse deja-vu ma ricordo bene di essere stata ferma in questo lato del campo diverse volte, probabilmente ogni autunno, a vedere le oche partire. Si radunano sempre quí volando in formazioni a V, basse sopra le nostre teste. Si fermano qualche giorno e si chiamano costantemente. Non tutte insieme, due o tre (credo) che chiamano le altre. E' affascinante vederle. Alcune rimangono e sopportano l'inverno, non molte, una manciata. Non so perchè. Forse dovrei consultare un libro di uccelli o un ornitologo (si chiamano cosí?). Ma non è poi che sia tanto interessata, per una sempliciona come me si tratta piuttosto di un'esperienza alla Hans Christian Andersen ed a Pollicina. L'influenza mi fa camminare piú adagio (una gamba alla volta) e pensare piú a lungo. Probabilmente è l'unica cosa positiva dell'essere debole di fisico, mi fa prendere piú tempo. Questo posto è cosí colmo di noi. Quello che era inteso essere soluzione provvisoria è diventato il piú permanente che abbiamo avuto fin'ora, da questa parte dell'infinito. Non capisco nulla del tempo. Non so come spingevo una carrozzina l'altro giorno, rincorrevo un adolescente ribelle ieri e mi siedo a bere il the con una donna adulta oggi. Tutto in questi posti. Abbiamo perso cosí tanti ricordi. E´praticamente impossibile conservarli tutti. Alcuni sono in borse di plastica e scatole da scarpe in cantina (non siamo per niente portati a riempire album). Altri sono scritti nei miei diari di tempo fa. Non scrivo piú a quel modo, non da quando ho scoperto che l'udienza di uno o due su questo blog sia tanto lusingante. Ma questo posto ed i nostri 73 qm contengono la maggior parte delle memorie per noi, per me. E so con certezza che saró sempre collegata a questo campo, al parco, la strada, il negozio, la fermata dell'autobus...ogni angolo in effetti. Mentre pondero su queste cose noto che Joy ha qualcosa che sembra una salsiccia in bocca. La mia testa influenzata impiega un paio di secondi in piú a realizzare che è una cacca congelata delle oche...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-5455417247927333889?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/5455417247927333889/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=5455417247927333889' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/5455417247927333889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/5455417247927333889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/11/of-geese-and-like.html' title='Of geese and the like'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNZcxVP-BGI/AAAAAAAAB34/I-YGsxv3CZE/s72-c/g%25E4ssen%2520flytta.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-4245277779039659449</id><published>2010-11-06T17:04:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-06T17:10:09.292+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Little village and a map</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV82izpoRI/AAAAAAAAB3w/VOWYKrT_dFQ/s1600/images.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 160px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 232px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536468593420116242" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV82izpoRI/AAAAAAAAB3w/VOWYKrT_dFQ/s320/images.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV82Yb1b9I/AAAAAAAAB3o/HoBtIii7es0/s1600/9789170017834.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 198px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536468590635872210" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV82Yb1b9I/AAAAAAAAB3o/HoBtIii7es0/s320/9789170017834.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Here what would be some good cultural orientation for anyone moving down to the south of Sweden from any other part of the world. Unfortunately the book is not translated yet. Carin Hjulström is a journalist who writes about a young journalist trainee. Easy reader yet thought provoking.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Ecco un libro che andrebbe letto da chiunque voglia trasferirsi nel sud della Svezia, da qualsiasi parte del mondo. Purtroppo non è ancora tradotto in altre lingue. Carin Hjulström è una giornalista che scrive di una giovane giornalista apprendista. Lettura facile che comunque provoca la riflessione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-4245277779039659449?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/4245277779039659449/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=4245277779039659449' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/4245277779039659449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/4245277779039659449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/11/little-village-and-map.html' title='Little village and a map'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV82izpoRI/AAAAAAAAB3w/VOWYKrT_dFQ/s72-c/images.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-3274972778831750141</id><published>2010-11-06T16:48:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-06T17:03:10.813+01:00</updated><title type='text'>There is something about doors</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV5UC6fITI/AAAAAAAAB3g/HltGXlXOW9E/s1600/P8030383_st_johns_doors_2_small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536464702208418098" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV5UC6fITI/AAAAAAAAB3g/HltGXlXOW9E/s320/P8030383_st_johns_doors_2_small.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV5UKvQ-NI/AAAAAAAAB3Y/-QPd-ZO-cV4/s1600/PC024367_st_johns_doors_11_small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536464704308836562" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV5UKvQ-NI/AAAAAAAAB3Y/-QPd-ZO-cV4/s320/PC024367_st_johns_doors_11_small.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV5T1kLyvI/AAAAAAAAB3Q/3iDmFdZdWhE/s1600/PC024345_st_johns_doors_22_small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536464698625215218" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV5T1kLyvI/AAAAAAAAB3Q/3iDmFdZdWhE/s320/PC024345_st_johns_doors_22_small.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536464698931278786" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV5T2tJ88I/AAAAAAAAB3I/qL-f1owhoP4/s320/PB254266_st_johns_doors_21_small.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV5Tt-CyKI/AAAAAAAAB3A/GOWJu9qQaT0/s1600/P8030396_st_johns_doors_5_small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536464696586193058" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV5Tt-CyKI/AAAAAAAAB3A/GOWJu9qQaT0/s320/P8030396_st_johns_doors_5_small.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV4_-b-98I/AAAAAAAAB24/FOeLqziJFhI/s1600/PC024369_st_johns_doors_12_small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536464357409355714" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV4_-b-98I/AAAAAAAAB24/FOeLqziJFhI/s320/PC024369_st_johns_doors_12_small.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536464338050331794" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV4-2UbtJI/AAAAAAAAB2w/1o6raJCBfbE/s320/PC024377_st_johns_doors_13_small.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV4-8XGvoI/AAAAAAAAB2o/ue0NPMYw_yY/s1600/PC024403_st_johns_doors_30_small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536464339672153730" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV4-8XGvoI/AAAAAAAAB2o/ue0NPMYw_yY/s320/PC024403_st_johns_doors_30_small.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV4-g3SyWI/AAAAAAAAB2g/ndXU6-8foV8/s1600/PC024456_st_johns_doors_36_small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536464332290967906" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV4-g3SyWI/AAAAAAAAB2g/ndXU6-8foV8/s320/PC024456_st_johns_doors_36_small.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These doors are from Newfoundland on the Atlantic ocean in eastern Canada. Last night we saw a movie about Newfoundland and I got intrigued by the place (thank you Google).There is something about doors ain't it? When I wait for some of my own to get home I tune in to the sound of the door. Just like Joy does. She is the expert with her big ears, she knows exactly who is coming and who is going. But I am getting pretty good at it myself. If I could chose I would want a blue door, definetly a blue one. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Queste porte sono da Newfoundland sull'oceano Atlantico in Canada, parte orientale. Ieri sera abbiamo visto un film su Newfoundland ed il posto mi ha incuriosita (grazie Google). Le porte hanno un carattere particolare ed unico. Quando aspetto che qualcuno dei miei rientri mi sintonizzo sul rumore della porta. Proprio come Joy. Solo che lei è l'esperta con le sue orecchie lunghe, ci mancherebbe altro. Riesce a distinguere il rumore di ognuno conosciuto e non. Ma anch'io sto diventando abbastanza brava. Se potessi scegliere dipingerei la nostra porta blu, decisamente blu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-3274972778831750141?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/3274972778831750141/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=3274972778831750141' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3274972778831750141'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3274972778831750141'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/11/there-is-something-about-doors.html' title='There is something about doors'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TNV5UC6fITI/AAAAAAAAB3g/HltGXlXOW9E/s72-c/P8030383_st_johns_doors_2_small.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-9010339237958522620</id><published>2010-11-01T20:57:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-01T21:00:27.000+01:00</updated><title type='text'>I know I need to buy a jaket that's  not red</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TM8b2O0lMOI/AAAAAAAAB2Y/YrsEEoJ5YrA/s1600/74919_494552342867_710402867_7259922_6954803_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TM8b2O0lMOI/AAAAAAAAB2Y/YrsEEoJ5YrA/s400/74919_494552342867_710402867_7259922_6954803_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534673085567152354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;R &amp;amp; P&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-9010339237958522620?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/9010339237958522620/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=9010339237958522620' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/9010339237958522620'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/9010339237958522620'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/11/i-know-i-need-to-by-jaket-thats-not-red.html' title='I know I need to buy a jaket that&apos;s  not red'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TM8b2O0lMOI/AAAAAAAAB2Y/YrsEEoJ5YrA/s72-c/74919_494552342867_710402867_7259922_6954803_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-1623608448394482149</id><published>2010-10-31T11:57:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-01T21:01:11.413+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Non ci resta che piangere</title><content type='html'>Even Leonardo Da Vinci may have had  a few hang ups. Sorry to the non-italian speaker, you miss out on something genially funny...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anche Leonardo Da Vinci puó aver avuto qualche difficoltá di apprendimento. Chiedo scusa a chi non comprende l'itaiano. Vi perdete qualcosa di genialmente comico....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-679087f2cf619652" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v2.nonxt8.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D679087f2cf619652%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D824E0BCA70606C2F52A12FD62D73DC47238754D.79F11F7BE237AC571245D0B4ED573275BB98CFA7%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D679087f2cf619652%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DOFtMh2tluNOWXkAf2VjxzHaPP5s&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v2.nonxt8.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D679087f2cf619652%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D824E0BCA70606C2F52A12FD62D73DC47238754D.79F11F7BE237AC571245D0B4ED573275BB98CFA7%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D679087f2cf619652%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DOFtMh2tluNOWXkAf2VjxzHaPP5s&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-1623608448394482149?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/1623608448394482149/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=1623608448394482149' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1623608448394482149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1623608448394482149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/10/even-leonardo-da-vinci-may-have-had-few.html' title='Non ci resta che piangere'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-5178767348038232909</id><published>2010-10-29T18:46:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-29T18:53:21.420+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Wishful reincarnation</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;I googled my name and clicked on pictures. I got this:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Ho googlato il mio nome e cliccato "immagini". E' uscita questa&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TMr67CPCxJI/AAAAAAAAB2Q/A20ThquytPw/s1600/Anna%2520Andersson%2520Gileborg1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 208px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 224px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533510984297268370" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TMr67CPCxJI/AAAAAAAAB2Q/A20ThquytPw/s320/Anna%2520Andersson%2520Gileborg1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;And this:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;E questa:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TMr669oGiiI/AAAAAAAAB2I/ZvpCr5cdxKk/s1600/Jonas%2520Ericson.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 214px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533510983060195874" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TMr669oGiiI/AAAAAAAAB2I/ZvpCr5cdxKk/s320/Jonas%2520Ericson.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-5178767348038232909?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/5178767348038232909/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=5178767348038232909' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/5178767348038232909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/5178767348038232909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/10/wishful-reincarnation.html' title='Wishful reincarnation'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TMr67CPCxJI/AAAAAAAAB2Q/A20ThquytPw/s72-c/Anna%2520Andersson%2520Gileborg1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-6407101016456363718</id><published>2010-10-25T20:37:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-25T20:56:48.589+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TMXOaCVNaLI/AAAAAAAAB1w/qsyfgDjb3s4/s1600/det+osynliga+barnet.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 151px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 176px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5532054663992273074" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TMXOaCVNaLI/AAAAAAAAB1w/qsyfgDjb3s4/s320/det+osynliga+barnet.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is high time to write the mid-term reports. 79 of them to be exact. One for each pupil, one for every subject. It is a difficult time for the teachers of this northern land, sleepless nights at the computer and coffee, a lot of coffee. As I pull the strings together, check on homeworks' results as well as pop-quizes and tests, I receive some very pleasant suprises now and then. Small and great things happen that make the tedious work of evaluating the learning process a bit more meaningful than it seems to be. I have my very own invisible pupil, my very own princess who disappears bit by bit, no, not disappears...disappearED. Because as I look through her papers I see that indeed she is learning, and making it and I can cross the dot that says: &lt;strong&gt;passes the course so far&lt;/strong&gt; on everyone of my subjects. And my heart makes a flip. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;E´ora di scrivere i giudizi di metá trimestre. 79 giudizi, per l'esattezza. Uno per ogni alunno, uno per ogni materia. E´un periodo difficile per gli insegnanti di questo paese del Nord. Notti insonni, trascorse al computer con caffé, parecchio caffé. Mentre tiro le funi del sacco, controllo compiti, verifiche, interrogazioni, ricevo ogni tanto una piacevole sorpresa. Piccole e grandi cose avvengono e rendono il lavoro tedioso della valutazione dell'apprendimento un poco piú significativo di quello che è, all'apparenza. Ho la mia particolare alunna invisibile, la mia unica principessa che sparisce pezzettino per pezzettino, no non sparisce, spariVA. Perchè mentre studio le sue carte mi rendo conto che sta veramente imparando, e ce la sta facendo, tirando pian piano su le vele. E questa sera posso fare la croce sulla casella che dice: &lt;strong&gt;supera il corso per il momento&lt;/strong&gt; in ognuna delle mie materie. E il mio cuore fa una capriola ed anche una piroetta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-6407101016456363718?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/6407101016456363718/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=6407101016456363718' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/6407101016456363718'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/6407101016456363718'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/10/it-is-high-time-to-write-mid-term.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TMXOaCVNaLI/AAAAAAAAB1w/qsyfgDjb3s4/s72-c/det+osynliga+barnet.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-1613123736261689792</id><published>2010-10-17T20:57:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-17T21:07:11.065+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The art of being good...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLtHj0CPTCI/AAAAAAAAB1o/8IFa_6EY2AE/s1600/nick_hornby_185_185_247447a-799605.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 186px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 180px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529091648116444194" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLtHj0CPTCI/AAAAAAAAB1o/8IFa_6EY2AE/s320/nick_hornby_185_185_247447a-799605.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLtHjHOVKRI/AAAAAAAAB1g/Z52Udoc1fgw/s1600/howtobegood.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 207px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529091636087564562" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLtHjHOVKRI/AAAAAAAAB1g/Z52Udoc1fgw/s320/howtobegood.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My book-club agrees with the critics, &lt;em&gt;How to be good&lt;/em&gt; is not Hornby's best work. Still he succedes once more to make middle-class folk think in between laughs. I think that Hornby has found his niche and should not move too much around it. Satire mixed with longing for peace and quiet are his strong cards. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Il mio circolo di lettura è d'accordo con i critici. &lt;em&gt;Come diventare buoni  &lt;/em&gt;non è uno dei libri migliori di Hornby. Eppure riesce ugualmente a far pensare la borghesia occidentale tra una risata e l'altra. Penso che Nick Hornby abbia trovato il suo genere e che sia meglio se lo tenga vicino. Satira mescolata con il desidero di una vita serena e tranquilla sono le sue carte forti. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-1613123736261689792?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/1613123736261689792/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=1613123736261689792' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1613123736261689792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1613123736261689792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/10/art-of-being-good.html' title='The art of being good...'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLtHj0CPTCI/AAAAAAAAB1o/8IFa_6EY2AE/s72-c/nick_hornby_185_185_247447a-799605.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-5656762074154589890</id><published>2010-10-17T15:16:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-17T15:19:43.820+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLr3R6JDqcI/AAAAAAAAB1Y/wTPeic2d_gs/s1600/51yp3zk0f5l_ss500_.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529003379587787202" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLr3R6JDqcI/AAAAAAAAB1Y/wTPeic2d_gs/s400/51yp3zk0f5l_ss500_.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I really recommend this to any gal who is as lost in Jane Austen as I am. Three hours of dreaming away...best cure for a back pain. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Raccomando a tutte le appassionate di Jane Austen, questa serie. Tre ore trascorse a sognare...la migliore cura per il mal di schiena. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-5656762074154589890?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/5656762074154589890/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=5656762074154589890' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/5656762074154589890'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/5656762074154589890'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/10/i-really-recommend-this-to-any-gal-who.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLr3R6JDqcI/AAAAAAAAB1Y/wTPeic2d_gs/s72-c/51yp3zk0f5l_ss500_.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-2003638708246434716</id><published>2010-10-16T12:24:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-16T13:09:31.734+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Mum in touch with the supernatural</title><content type='html'>My kids know that when they are out on friday nights I appreciate hearing their voices once or twice. Text-messages won't do for this mum, I phone once and then once more  if they do not come in when they said they would. Marcus and Jessica are used to this and have learnt to live with it. They are actually quite realiable. I always thought they went with it because they know that if they do not answer the maniac in me keeps on calling and can even start calling their friends to get in touch. I am not borderline-hysteric, I just want to hear their voices and hear from them if there is any change of plan in sight. I have not grown up in Sweden where alcohol is an issue with people and friday nights. Going out and drinking goes hand in hand here, italian kids do other dangerous things, that is not the point, it is just that what I am not used to makes me uncorfotable and, worried.  Last night Jessica went off to a party at her boyfriends' and Marcus went to the city with her mates from school. Mats is away and I settled down to a TV night nursing my back hernia. 10 pm "Skavlan" (a swedish/norwegian talk show). Around 11 pm I totally fell asleep and woke up much later with a startle because Marcus' face was over me and he had called out "mamma!" with a stern and loud voice. I turned on the light to see no Marcus, only Joy  looking up at me. It was about 12:30pm and since I do not believe in random and I was by then wide awake I sat up and took the clue that I should pray for Marcus. I am not a new-agey, freeky mother but I have seen christian prayer work and I use it a lot. A few minutes later I got a text message from Marcus saying that he was on his way home. This morning at breakfast a sleepy son said to me over his glass of orange juice: "did you fall asleep on me last night?". I was too wise to make a comment but I start to think that this ringing around ritual is not only for the my sake of my nerves...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;I miei figli sanno che quando escono il venerdí sera mi fa piacere sentirli durante la serata. Messaggi scritti non vanno per questa madre, voglio sentire le loro voci ed allora li chiamo verso  mezzanotte. Se tardano a rientrare li chiamo nuovamente.  Marcus e Jessica sono abituati a questo e sono affidabili. Ho sempre pensato che rispondono perchè sanno che se non lo fanno entro in uno stato maniacale e non smetto di chiamare fino a che non lo fanno, altrimenti inizio a chiamare i loro amici.  Non sono una pazza isterica, voglio sentire semplicemente la loro voce per assicurarmi che tutto è a posto e sapere direttamente da loro se ci sono cambi di programma. Non sono cresciuta in Svezia dove venerdí sera e consumo di alchol vanno per mano. I ragazzi italiani fanno altre cose brutte, non si tratta di questo, è che quello a cui non sono abituata mi rende insicura ed ansiosa. Ieri sera Jessica è andata ad una festa a casa del ragazzo e Marcus in cittá con amici. Con Mats via mi sono preparata ad una serata davanti alla televisione a curarmi l'ernia al disco.  22:00  "Skavlan" (programma di attualitá svedese/norvegese). Verso le 23:00 devo essermi addormentata profondamente perchè mi sono svegliata di soprassalto con il viso di Marcus davanti che con voce severa mi chiamava: "mamma!". Ho acceso la luce ma non c'era Marcus a casa, solo Joy che mi guardava incuriosita. Erano circa le 12:30 ed ero completamente sveglia. Dato che non credo nel caso ho deciso che dovevo pregare. Non sono una madre "sfocata", ma ho visto che la preghiera cristiana funziona e la uso parecchio. Qualche minuto dopo mi è arrivato un messaggio di mio figlio dove mi informava che stava rientrando. Questa mattina a colazione, mio figlio assonnato mi ha detto dietro al bicchiere di succo d'arancia "mi hai abbandonato ieri sera e ti sei addormentata?". Sono stata attenta a non fare commenti ma mi sa che questa storia di chiamare i figli non è importante solo per me...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-2003638708246434716?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/2003638708246434716/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=2003638708246434716' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/2003638708246434716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/2003638708246434716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/10/mum-in-touch-with-supernatural.html' title='Mum in touch with the supernatural'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-8215253561470965802</id><published>2010-10-14T19:21:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-14T19:23:09.179+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLc8MvlgN9I/AAAAAAAAB1Q/oV5fL5wmJzU/s1600/tumblr_l9tq5g6Iaw1qz6el5o1_500.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 280px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527953257250437074" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLc8MvlgN9I/AAAAAAAAB1Q/oV5fL5wmJzU/s320/tumblr_l9tq5g6Iaw1qz6el5o1_500.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div&gt;I love this photo! Come mi piace questa foto!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-8215253561470965802?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/8215253561470965802/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=8215253561470965802' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8215253561470965802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8215253561470965802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/10/i-love-this-photo-come-mi-piace-questa.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLc8MvlgN9I/AAAAAAAAB1Q/oV5fL5wmJzU/s72-c/tumblr_l9tq5g6Iaw1qz6el5o1_500.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-1552817539469667838</id><published>2010-10-11T17:39:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-11T18:32:15.571+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLMv5Qg0WCI/AAAAAAAAB1I/grv31dhG5FM/s1600/riksdagen_web_1172867531.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 182px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526813828445394978" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLMv5Qg0WCI/AAAAAAAAB1I/grv31dhG5FM/s320/riksdagen_web_1172867531.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLMv4jXYbJI/AAAAAAAAB1A/qTYTAgpphAg/s1600/Rosenbad2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 218px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526813816326220946" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLMv4jXYbJI/AAAAAAAAB1A/qTYTAgpphAg/s320/Rosenbad2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are days when I feel that I am a real good educator, it is the days when I make a connection with my class, may be even the days when I manage to sort out a fist fight and win the trust of some pupil. Then there are days just like today, They are days when I take my class of 24 to do the tour of the government buildings in central Stockholm and their interest is below 0. They'ld rather walk right on the edge of the water line giving me the chills or roll on their "rolling shoes" which they are not supposed to use in traffic. It is then that I make them lean against a brick wall like an execution squad and with a dangerous look in my eyes I threatened them with a test the very next day. There is a lady leaning on the same wall looking at the sun. I think I have seen her somewhere but I have no time to ponder on such meaningless facts just now. I lecture my pupils about the buildings around in a very bad tone of voice, I point out the parlament and what I have believed up to now to be the house of government when the lady turns to me in full disdain pointing at another direction: "no no no that is not the government, THAT is the house of governement, I know because I work there". It is then that I look at her again and I see, of course I see, that she is a somebody whose name I should know, because I am a social studies' teacher and because I live in this Country and because she is often on the news talking politics, and I would want to dig a hole in the concrete right now and right there to hide myself and not have to go back on the tube with my lot...and I can hear her repeat her disdain as she shares with her collegues, the other ministers, over a cup of coffee in the house of government about the ignorant teacher with an accent who gave the wrong information to a bunch of pupils, and &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;we have got to do something about our schools&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;..and I wonder why on earth did I ever become a teacher?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Ci sono giorni che mi sento una brava educatrice, sono i giorni in cui ho buon contatto con i miei alunni, magari i giorni in cui riesco a risolvere una rissa e conquistare la fiducia della mia classe. E ci sono altri giorni, come questo ad esempio, quando porto la mia classe di 24 undicenni in centro per fare il giro dei palazzi governativi ed il loro interesse è completamente a zero. Preferiscono correre in bilico sulla riva del canale facendomi venire un infarto od usare le rotelle delle loro "roll on" che ho proibito severamente in mezzo al traffico. E allora li allineo come un plotone di esecuzione lungo un muro impiandandogli addosso i miei occhi omicidi. C'è una signora appoggiata allo stesso muro, un poco piú in la', mi pare di averla vista da qualche parte, ma la cosa ha poco importanza in questo momento. Punto il dito con voce brutta verso gli edifici attorno a noi e sputo fuori la minaccia "domani compito in classe su queste cose se non mi date retta! Quello è il parlamento, quella è la casa del governo". A quel punto la signora si gira indispettita verso di me: "no no no, quella non è la casa del governo, è quella la casa del governo, lo so perchè ci lavoro dentro" e mentre punta con il suo ditino verso un edificio dall'altra parte della strada, la riguardo e, la riconosco. Dovrei conoscerne il nome, sono dopotutto insegnante di educazione civica e vivo in questo paese. Appare spesso al telegiornale e parla di politica. Ed allora vorrei scavare un buco proprio lí nel cemento armato e buttarmici dentro e non dover riportare i miei briganti a scuola in metropolitana, e giá la sento sdegnata, prendere il caffé con i suoi colleghi ministri e raccontare dell'insegnante ignorante con l'accento straniero che svia un gruppo di alunni...&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;bisogna fare qualcosa nelle nostre scuole&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. E mi chiedo, proprio oggi, quando mai ho pensato di poter fare l'insegnante. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-1552817539469667838?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/1552817539469667838/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=1552817539469667838' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1552817539469667838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1552817539469667838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/10/there-are-days-when-i-feel-that-i-am.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLMv5Qg0WCI/AAAAAAAAB1I/grv31dhG5FM/s72-c/riksdagen_web_1172867531.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-5520354223652471655</id><published>2010-10-10T19:22:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-10T19:55:52.605+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLH2azYrhWI/AAAAAAAAB04/s0SSOG2X470/s1600/untitled.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526469158091064674" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLH2azYrhWI/AAAAAAAAB04/s0SSOG2X470/s320/untitled.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;A little harvest for our dinner. The big mashroom is a &lt;em&gt;stolt fjällskivling,&lt;/em&gt; when steaked without slicing it is the closest thing to a piece of beef for a vegerarian. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#000099;"&gt;Un piccolo raccolto per cena. Il fungo grande si chiama in svedese "stolt fjällskivling", quando lo si frigge in padella senza affettarlo è il cibo che piú si avvicina ad una bistecca per un vegetariano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Thomas Sjödin, a swedish writer, once said that "&lt;em&gt;even the soul needs to walk around i&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;n a robe once in awhile&lt;/em&gt;". Lately I hold on to my robe as Linus holds&lt;br /&gt;to his blanket. I get up early on week-ends just to have the experience of wearing my robe over the pyjamas. I walk around, seat by the window with a steaming cup of coffee, go back to bed in my robe to read...it's the feeling of being off I guess, of having time to kill on my hands. It's therapy! We try to be out as much as possible during these week-ends, to fill the reservoir of vitamin D before the sun desappears for good. We walk the woods, pick mushrooms, let Joy go loose for hours, go back to the cottage, sort out our little harvest before dinner, warm up by the fire. Once I get back to town, to our apartment, I can't wait to put my robe back on. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;Thomas Sjödin, uno scrittore svedese, una volta disse che &lt;em&gt;"anche l'anima a volte deve andarsene in giro in vestaglia". &lt;/em&gt;Ultimamente sono legata alla mia vestaglia tanto quanto Linus è legato alla sua coperta. Mi alzo presto i fine settimana per il semplice gusto di andarmene in giro con la vestaglia sopra il pigiama. Mi siedo alla finestra a bere il caffé o me ne ritorno a letto a leggere, in vestaglia. E´probabilmente il senso di essere libera, a riposo, con tempo da ammazzare tra le mani. E´terapia! Cerchiamo di essere fuori il piú possibile questi fine settimana, per riempire le cisterne di vitamina D prima che il sole sparisca per un bel pó. Camminiamo per lo piú nel bosco, raccogliamo funghi, lasciamo Joy libera di correre, torniamo alla casetta, puliamo il nostro piccolo raccolto, ci scaldiamo al fuoco. Quando rientro in cittá, nel nostro appartamento, non vedo l'ora di infilarmi la mia vestaglia. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-5520354223652471655?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/5520354223652471655/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=5520354223652471655' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/5520354223652471655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/5520354223652471655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/10/little-harvest-for-our-dinner.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLH2azYrhWI/AAAAAAAAB04/s0SSOG2X470/s72-c/untitled.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-7778008332784168529</id><published>2010-10-09T19:10:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-09T19:44:58.576+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Costly word</title><content type='html'>Sitting on my red velvet easy-chair chewing on one very costly word. Quite often I have to sort out conflicts amongst pupils, that is part of my job. Once in awhile it is a fist fight. On such occasions there is a lot of heartache going on from all parts before coming up with a solution. It involves consultations with parents, individual and collective talks, tears and anger. Lot's of listening and the very hard task of not getting too emotionally involved. More often than not the pupils bow down to the harsh reality that the only way around a closure and some peace from the adult-world is to utter the word: &lt;em&gt;sorry. &lt;/em&gt;It comes out as a whisper, with eyes fixed on the floor's tiles, but it is the right word, and everyone with a sensible heart hears it. Sorry is a liberating woord, and yet a very costly one. It is a word that is very seldom generously distributed. I know because I am quite stingy with it myself. A word that should produce respect once uttered but one can never be really sure. ..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seduta nella mia poltrona di velluto rosso, mastico una parola molto costosa. Spesso devo intervenire per risolvere conflitti tra alunni, è parte del mio lavoro. Ogni tanto si tratta di un conflitto a pugni. Tali occasioni causano molto malincuore a tutti i coinvolti ed è necessario giungere ad una soluzione. Colloqui con i genitori, colloqui individuali e collettivi, lacrime, rabbia. Si tratta di ascoltare senza lasciarsi coinvolgere emotivamente. Spesso gli alunni si rassegnano alla crudele realtá che l'unico modo per chiudere la storia e liberarsi degli adulti assillanti è di pronunciare la fatidica parola: &lt;em&gt;scusa&lt;/em&gt;. Esce quasi sempre come un sussurro, con gli occhi fissi sulle mattonelle del pavimento, ma è la parola giusta, tutti attorno l'hanno sentita e se il loro cuore avesse le mani le batterebbero gioiosamente. Scusa, è una parola che libera e riconcilia, eppure non viene mai distribuita con generositá, lo so bene perchè ne sono avara pure io. Una parola che dovrebbe produrre rispetto una volta pronunciata, ma il fatto è che non  si sa mai....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-7778008332784168529?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/7778008332784168529/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=7778008332784168529' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7778008332784168529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7778008332784168529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/10/costly-word.html' title='Costly word'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-475191491450045655</id><published>2010-10-09T16:29:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-09T16:30:05.371+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLB8VSHumiI/AAAAAAAAB0g/JTZ4aBrktSo/s1600/046.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 239px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526053447866948130" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLB8VSHumiI/AAAAAAAAB0g/JTZ4aBrktSo/s320/046.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Our fireplace&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-475191491450045655?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/475191491450045655/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=475191491450045655' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/475191491450045655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/475191491450045655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/10/our-fireplace.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TLB8VSHumiI/AAAAAAAAB0g/JTZ4aBrktSo/s72-c/046.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-8974743141284140747</id><published>2010-10-03T14:08:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-03T14:14:29.147+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Martyrs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TKhycmtvJgI/AAAAAAAAB0Y/pzrvqmCS_Ec/s1600/beckett.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 203px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 162px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523790778724197890" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TKhycmtvJgI/AAAAAAAAB0Y/pzrvqmCS_Ec/s400/beckett.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cheryl Beckett was shot to death on august 5th by terrorists in Afghanistan. She had been living there for 6 years, planting vegetable gardens in the arid soils of Kabul and working in an eye clinic.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;Cheryl Beckett è stata uccisa il 5 agosto di quest'anno da terroristi in Afghanistan. Lavorava lí da 6 anni, piantando orti e giardini nei suoli aridi di Kabul e lavorando in una clinica oculistica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-8974743141284140747?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/8974743141284140747/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=8974743141284140747' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8974743141284140747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8974743141284140747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/10/martyrs.html' title='Martyrs'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TKhycmtvJgI/AAAAAAAAB0Y/pzrvqmCS_Ec/s72-c/beckett.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-3457623339321477191</id><published>2010-10-03T10:27:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-03T11:31:57.256+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TKg-8BcneZI/AAAAAAAAB0Q/GOdeg8cyhWY/s1600/sicilia-finestra-sul-mare.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 267px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523734143871449490" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TKg-8BcneZI/AAAAAAAAB0Q/GOdeg8cyhWY/s400/sicilia-finestra-sul-mare.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Can one be so tired that it hurts in every bone of the skeleton and the brain itself? Of course one can, I am at least one living testimony of that fact. I know there is no other cure to tiredness than rest and I know I have noone to blame for it but myself. Tiredness builds herself up, it is a stubborn grumpy old lady that holds on to her heavy skirts for years, building them up layer after layer until they are so thick that it might take a lifetime to get rid of them (and of her). That is when tiredness takes off her ugly mask of grumpy old lady and shows a new self: burn-out. There is nothing glamorous about being burn-out, the word gives me the creeps. It is the result of a sickly behaviour, of the absurd conviction that I ought to say &lt;em&gt;yes&lt;/em&gt; all the time because &lt;em&gt;no&lt;/em&gt; is a dangerous word. To ignore the slow collapse on the inside just to be in control of the world outside is simply crazy, nuts, jingle bells... When one is vulnerable, sick or just stinking tired, one's true friends are revealed. It is those who by a simple look in your eyes say: "&lt;em&gt;hey! Here is the tea and the paper, put up your legs and do nothing&lt;/em&gt;". I have a number of those and I love them to pieces this very moment. I am looking for ways to rest without lying in my bed or on a couch with a remote in my hand. I am starting to take things seriously and that is progress, I guess the sore bones and brain have made themselves clear enough. I try to rest walking in the forest, looking at the change of colours this autumn, which is amazingly different from last autumn and the one before. Taking a nap in the afternoon on week-ends, playing with the dog, talking to Mats, drinking tea. Letting the sun warm my face. Sitting by the open fire at the cottage or in an old church building in the country-side. Wouldn't it be lovely to open green shutters in the mornings and see the blue sea? That would be the peak of rest...indeed it would.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;E´possibile essere cosí stanchi che lo si sente in ogni osso dello scheletro e nel cervello? Di certo è possibile, perlomeno è la mia nuova esperienza. So bene che non esiste altra cura alla stanchezza al di fuori del &lt;em&gt;riposo&lt;/em&gt;. E, so bene che non posso incolpare nessun altro di questo mio stato se non me stessa. La stanchezza si autoevolve. E´come una vecchia noiosa e rugosa che ti butta addosso le sue sottane spesse e puzzolenti strato per strato, finchè è cosí pesante che puó volerci la vita intera a liberarsene. E´allora che la vecchia rugosa si toglie la sua brutta maschera e rivela un nuovo essere: l'esaurimento. Non c'è niente di glorioso nell'essere esauriti, solo la parola mi da le convulsioni. E´il risultato di un comportamento malato, della convizione assurda che l'unica parola concessa sia il &lt;em&gt;SI&lt;/em&gt; e che ogni &lt;em&gt;NO&lt;/em&gt; sia pericoloso (aiuto!). Ignorare il lento collasso interno per mantenere il controllo del mondo esterno è semplice pazzia, ocaggine, cucú...Quando si è deboli, malati o semplicemente ed incredibilmente stanchi, si rivelano i veri amici. Coloro ai quali basta uno sguardo per dirti: "&lt;em&gt;ecco il giornale ed una tazza di té, metti su le gambe e non fare nulla".&lt;/em&gt; Ho alcuni di questi veri amici che in questo momento stimo devotamente. Sto cercando (nuovo progetto) di riposare senza starmene sdraiata nel letto o su un divano con il telecomando in mano. Sto prendendo a quanto pare sta cosa sul serio, le ossa ed il cervello hanno parlato chiaro. Cerco di riposare camminando nel bosco, guardando i cambiamenti della stagione che stranamente sono cosí diversi dall'autunno scorso e da quello precedente. Gioco con il cane, parlo con Mats, bevo té. Lascio che il sole mi riscaldi la faccia, sto seduta a guardare il fuoco nel camino od il soffitto di una vecchia chiesa in campagna. Non sarebbe magnigico aprire imposte verdi la mattina e vedersi davante il mare blu? Quello sarebbe il culmine del riposo...decisamente.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-3457623339321477191?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/3457623339321477191/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=3457623339321477191' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3457623339321477191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3457623339321477191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/10/can-one-be-so-tired-that-it-hurts-in.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TKg-8BcneZI/AAAAAAAAB0Q/GOdeg8cyhWY/s72-c/sicilia-finestra-sul-mare.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-747611445583585730</id><published>2010-09-26T20:00:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-26T21:41:15.743+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Of intenstines, baptism and the like...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TJ-KvLLxbnI/AAAAAAAAB0I/XFScs4YECXA/s1600/55392_55081961.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 168px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521284211240169074" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TJ-KvLLxbnI/AAAAAAAAB0I/XFScs4YECXA/s320/55392_55081961.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;It can be difficult to concentrate on words being said when visual impressions are so overwhelming. If I were a little illiterate farmer lady from the middle-ages (whom not seldom I wish I could try to be), I would have a hard time getting rid of the pictures that church imparted (imposed?) on me. Actually, even not being that little illiterate lady, those pictures are glued inside my head this very moment. Sunday morning and Mats and I feel like a walk in the woods, so we go back to the cottage. After woods, mushrooms in our pockets (just came across some) and some pale (very pale) sun warming our backs, we decide to go to church. The country-side here is full of lovely small churches from the middle-ages...I have mentioned that a couple of times, haven't I? We exchange rubber boots for walking shoes and enter little Sånga church, a lovely thing with a sharp church tower. The church is filled with smartly dressed young families, they look so perfect that I wonder if I am in the middle of posh town instead of farm land. We are definetly the only ones smelling resin. We realise soon enough that an infant baptism is in the program and the very perfect-looking people are there for the baby. We choose a seat out of the way of friends and family, but the church is very small so we are in the middle of it no matter where we turn. I end up behind some wall painings from 1400s' figuring Erasmus of Antioch being penalized to death for his preaching. One painting shows him in a big pot of a boilinig something (oil? pitch?), a meanly smiling person pours the liquid on his bare back with a wooden ladle. Erasmus is naked, I suppose, at least from the waist up, only wearing a bishop's hat. The other painting is of Erasmus lying down on a wooden bed, stripped but for a kind-of-diaper around his loins. He has a hole in his stomac with something stringy (his intenstines) coming out of it and two persons on each side weaving his intenstines around a gadget that looks like what is used to roast chicken. I seat in the little church with the service and the singing about Jesus loving babies going on, I am so filled with impressions that my brain is ready to go tilt. Erasmus, his intenstines, the suits and shaved necks of the guys in front of me, the smell of resin and mashroom coming out of Mats' blue jacket, the baby being baptised who is crying her heart out. In the midst of it all the priest is really talking from her heart probably unconsiously competing with the pictures that are filling my head. Her words manage to make way in my crowded imaginatin and touch my own heart.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Di intestini, battesimi e cose simili...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000066;"&gt;Puó risultare difficile concentrarsi su quello che si ascolta quando le immagini attorno sono, come dire, travolgenti. Se fossi una contadinella analfabeta del medioevo (che non raramente mi piacerebbe provare ad essere), avrei molta difficoltá a cancellare le immagini impartite (imposte?) dalla chiesa. In effetti, pur non essendo una contadinella analfabeta del medioevo, le immagini di oggi sono incollate nel mio cervello in questo momento preciso. Domenica mattina ed io e Mats abbiamo voglia di camminare nel bosco. Dopo aver camminato nella foresta con Joy, raccolto funghi e goduto degli ultimi raggi di sole (molto pallidi ormai) abbiamo pensato di andare in chiesa. La campagna quí è costellata di chiesette luterane medioevali...ma questo l'ho giá scritto, vero? Ci togliamo gli stivali di gomma, mettiamo le scarpe ed entriamo nella chiesetta di Sånga, piccola, con il campanile parecchio appuntito. La chiesa è piena di gente vestita cosí bene che mi chiedo semmai non siamo finiti in mezzo alla zona snob del centro e non in campagna. Io e Mats siamo decisamente gli unici che emanano odore di resina. Ci rendiamo conto quasi subito che nel programma del culto è previsto un battesimo e che tutte quelle persone eleganti non sono altro che familiari ed amici. Per non intrudere ci mettiamo in un posto in fondo, ma la chiesa è talmente piccola che siamo tutti attaccati ugualmente. Finisco sotto alcuni affreschi del medioevo (il soffitto e le pareti sono coperti di affreschi) che raffigurano Erasmo di Antiochia, martirizzato in Siria per la sua predicazione. Uno degli affreschi lo riporta in un calderone di liquido bollente (olio? pece?). Un uomo dal sorriso maligno gli versa sulla schiena il liquido con un mestolo di legno. Erasmo è nudo almeno dalla vita in su, indossa solo un copricapo da vescovo. Un altro affresco riporta Erasmo disteso su un letto di legno, svestito ad eccezione di un panno messo a mo' di pannolo attorno ai lombi. Ha un buco nel ventre da quale gli esce una specie di nastro (gli intestini) che due uomini avvolgo attorno ad un ingranaggio che sembra uno spiedo per arrostire i polli. Sono seduta nella chiesetta dove si sta cantando di Gesú che ama tutti i bimbi e sono cosi colma di impressioni visive che il mio cervello sta per andare in tilt. Erasmo, i suoi intestini, le giacche nere e le nuche rasate di fronte a me, l'odore di bosco dalla giacca blu di Mats, la bimba che strilla alla fonte battesimale. In mezzo a tanto traffico visivo, la pastora che compete inconsciamente con la mia mente con il suo fare e dire che rivelano che parla direttamente dal cuore cercando di centrare sui cuori, ed in qualche modo le sue parole riescono a farsi strada ed a toccare, pure me. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-747611445583585730?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/747611445583585730/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=747611445583585730' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/747611445583585730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/747611445583585730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/09/of-intenstines-baptism-and-like.html' title='Of intenstines, baptism and the like...'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TJ-KvLLxbnI/AAAAAAAAB0I/XFScs4YECXA/s72-c/55392_55081961.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-2829188772987882723</id><published>2010-09-23T22:01:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-23T22:10:17.955+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Marcus and Jessica 18 today</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TJu0ATUgDVI/AAAAAAAABz4/otxesh3bKm8/s1600/kitchen+002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; 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WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520202197361827586" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TJuyprYVHwI/AAAAAAAABzY/ZGC9zwaJnhs/s200/marcus+och+jessica+18+%C3%A5r+021.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TJuypd3gLFI/AAAAAAAABzQ/hRE6zs3XLiI/s1600/marcus+och+jessica+18+%C3%A5r+030.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-2829188772987882723?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/2829188772987882723/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=2829188772987882723' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/2829188772987882723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/2829188772987882723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/09/marcus-and-jessica-18-today.html' title='Marcus and Jessica 18 today'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TJu0ATUgDVI/AAAAAAAABz4/otxesh3bKm8/s72-c/kitchen+002.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-4782086300548204806</id><published>2010-09-19T13:27:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-19T13:28:24.448+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Mats at work</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TJXzx_xJiCI/AAAAAAAABzI/i2fQPj5c0es/s1600/23823_361733223797_797448797_3598333_25051_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518584958669129762" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TJXzx_xJiCI/AAAAAAAABzI/i2fQPj5c0es/s400/23823_361733223797_797448797_3598333_25051_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-4782086300548204806?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/4782086300548204806/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=4782086300548204806' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/4782086300548204806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/4782086300548204806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/09/mats-at-work.html' title='Mats at work'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TJXzx_xJiCI/AAAAAAAABzI/i2fQPj5c0es/s72-c/23823_361733223797_797448797_3598333_25051_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-2424781303719240564</id><published>2010-09-17T17:09:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-17T18:22:39.315+02:00</updated><title type='text'>It's friday. Allow me to be polemic...</title><content type='html'>Elections time in Sweden. School matters are a major issue, as usual. Somebody else's kids become &lt;em&gt;our children&lt;/em&gt; , their future becomes &lt;em&gt;our future&lt;/em&gt;. Every single promise of the office-far-away-based-minister is attached to thousands knotted and contorted strings that none but we teachers have to sort out. He does the talking and the promising, we do the sorting out. Fancy promises of a better school involve for us educators (we know that too well) more reports to write, more documents to send, more assessments to produce...dare I say useless? Oh yes, I do dear! Documents that will be read once at the most, but that look real nice in the portfolio of the candidates to the post. Little Anne has a hard time figuring out numbers on paper. Getting a 2 to become a 4 in her second grade class honestly make no-sense to her. Little Anne is skipping and singing with her friends in the school-yard during recess. Her parents worry, the pricipal worries, the teacher thinks silently: just wait her out a little while longer. But waiting has no value in today's school. The urgency of an efficient solution is felt in every pore of a school building. Meetings must be scheduled, a report must be written and a solution be found. A report such as this resembles the treaty of Camp David. It has to be copied in fours, both parents have to sign, the head teacher has to sign, the maths teacher has to sign, the principal has to sign, at last the pupil has to sign. Who writes the report? The teacher of course. She (or he) seats and writes so frantically that the computer gives out sparks. Meanwhile Anne is skipping outside. The teacher represses the thought that she should be using her time to take out the abacus and show Anne how two red pebbles together with two yellow pebbles can make four blue pebbles. At teachers' training college she had the frivolous idea that she would spend most of her working time in a classroom. While adults are meeting, and worrying, and writing and signing and copying and evaluating and filing and feeling they are doing what has to be done, Anne is skipping in the school-yard during recess&lt;em&gt;: "skip one, and two, skip three, get four, skip five, get six...." &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;E´venerdí, permettetemi un poco di polemica...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E´tempo di elezioni in Svezia. La scuola è al centro dei discorsi politici, come sempre. I figli di qualcun altro diventano &lt;em&gt;i nostri figli, &lt;/em&gt;il loro futuro è d'improvviso &lt;em&gt;il nostro futuro. &lt;/em&gt;Ogni promessa del ministro seduto comodamente nel suo ufficio luminoso, è attaccata ad una fune di nodi stretti e contorti che spetta a noi insegnanti snodare. Lui parla e promette, noi snodiamo. Promesse succulente di una scuola migliore comportano (e lo sappiamo ormai troppo bene) piú resoconti da scrivere, piú documenti da inviare, piú valutazioni da produrre...oso dire inutili? Oso! E´tutta documentazione che verrá letta al massimo una volta, ma che fa veramente bella figura nella cartella del candidato al governo.&lt;br /&gt;La piccola Anna fa fatica con i numeri scritti. In seconda elementare non ha ancora capito come sia possibile che due 2 si trasformino in un unico 4. La piccola Anna è fuori per la ricreazione, salta a corda e canta con i suoi compagni. I genitori sono preoccupati, il preside è preoccupato, la maestra (o il maestro) vorrebbe dire: "aspettiamo e vediamo", ma non lo fa perchè sa bene che aspettare è una parolaccia nella scuola oggi. Il senso d'urgenza di trovare una soluzione fá vibrare l'intero edificio. Si organizza una riunione, si prepara un documento d'azione. Questi documenti sembrano il trattato di Camp David. Devono essere fotocopiati in quattro copie, entrambi i genitori devono firmare, il preside deve firmare, la maestra deve firmare, l'insegnante di sostegno deve firmare ed infine, l'alunno deve firmare. Chi scrive questi documenti? Logicamente l'insegnante. Mentre scrive freneticamente facendo scintillare il computer e mentre Anna salta a corda in cortile, l'insegnante si chiede che cosa mai ci stia a fare in un ufficio? Quando era all'universitá aveva l'idea frivola che avrebbe trascorso la maggior parte del suo tempo in una classe, con degli alunni. Si chiede anche quando troverá il tempo, tra tutti questi documenti, di tirare fuori il pallottolliere e di mostrare ad Anna come due palline rosse e due palline gialle diventano come per magia quattro palline blu. Mentre gli adulti scrivono, firmano, fotocopiano, inviano, archiviano...Anna salta a corda: &lt;em&gt;"e uno, e due, salta tre, fan quattro..." &lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-2424781303719240564?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/2424781303719240564/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=2424781303719240564' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/2424781303719240564'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/2424781303719240564'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/09/its-friday-allow-me-to-be-polemic.html' title='It&apos;s friday. Allow me to be polemic...'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-2945868107877700752</id><published>2010-09-14T19:06:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-14T19:10:18.208+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TI-rwz_tF_I/AAAAAAAABzA/ZcWGPAsXxks/s1600/nytt+golv+003.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516816923631622130" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TI-rwz_tF_I/AAAAAAAABzA/ZcWGPAsXxks/s320/nytt+golv+003.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TI-rwb0x6AI/AAAAAAAABy4/fQpiPVwuRu0/s1600/nytt+golv+011.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516816917143349250" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TI-rwb0x6AI/AAAAAAAABy4/fQpiPVwuRu0/s320/nytt+golv+011.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joy approves of the new kitchen floor. She refuses to move.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A Joy piace il nuovo pavimento della cucina. Si è piazzata lí e non si muove.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-2945868107877700752?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/2945868107877700752/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=2945868107877700752' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/2945868107877700752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/2945868107877700752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/09/joy-approves-of-new-kitchen-floor.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TI-rwz_tF_I/AAAAAAAABzA/ZcWGPAsXxks/s72-c/nytt+golv+003.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-7775307130506125111</id><published>2010-09-11T20:26:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-12T09:57:32.596+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TIvNSGegdcI/AAAAAAAAByw/mfDlVDyWWVE/s1600/cutting-for-stone1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 207px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515727879505212866" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TIvNSGegdcI/AAAAAAAAByw/mfDlVDyWWVE/s320/cutting-for-stone1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TIvNIkDAlnI/AAAAAAAAByo/5aqj-QefSsk/s1600/wagner-190.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 143px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515727715644249714" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TIvNIkDAlnI/AAAAAAAAByo/5aqj-QefSsk/s200/wagner-190.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; An awesome story-teller this phycisian. I am enchanted!&lt;br /&gt;It is not until well into the novel that the title, which is very pleasing to the ear, starts to make sense. Once it does, it is impossible to put down the novel. So much so that marking papers and a floorless kitchen come in a very second and third place. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Un gustosissimo raccontastorie questo medico. Sono incantata! Ci vogliono un bel numero di pagine prima che il titolo (in italiano: La porta dele lacrime), decisamente piacevole all'orecchio, inizi a far senso. Una volta compreso, è impossibile chiudere questo libro. Cosí impossibile che correggere temi ed una cucina senza pavimento entrano senza esitazione in seconda, e terza posizione. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-7775307130506125111?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/7775307130506125111/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=7775307130506125111' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7775307130506125111'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7775307130506125111'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/09/awesome-story-teller-this-phycisian.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TIvNSGegdcI/AAAAAAAAByw/mfDlVDyWWVE/s72-c/cutting-for-stone1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-217498400950342973</id><published>2010-09-11T19:58:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-12T09:58:10.308+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TIvDlfJtalI/AAAAAAAAByQ/P_PD9xOIrdA/s1600/SDERMA~1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515717217430104658" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TIvDlfJtalI/AAAAAAAAByQ/P_PD9xOIrdA/s400/SDERMA~1.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Some things are just hard to explain. "Södermalm" (=the South) is Stockholm's Montmartre, Stockholm's Manhattan as it were. It is a city-side filled with history and charm. I have worked in the area during two periods of my life in Sweden, I have walked the streets, gone to restaurants, coffee shops, theatres, parks and I have spent hours looking for vintage pushing a stroller with my kids in it. The memories are thus warm. Many people here are ready to spend a fortune to pay the rent for a shubby room without a shower, just to be able to live in the South. Last night I was there in great company, my very own work-collegues. What is so hard to explain, is that every single time I am in Södermalm my heart is gripped by an amazing melancholy. I don't understand it, just don't. I look at the people playing boule on Mariatorget, look at the several flower-stands on Södermalmstorg and...feel sad. I never have that sort of turn around in any other part of town...what on earth is this?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Certi fenomeni sono difficili da spiegare. "Södermalm" (il Sud) è la Montmartre di Stoccolma, la sua Manhattan. E´un quartiere carico di storia e di fascino. Ho lavorato nella zona durante due periodi della mia vita in Svezia. Ho passeggiato per le strade, mangiato in ristoranti, visitato teatri e parchi. Ho anche trascorso diverse ore in negozi di seconda mano spingendo il passeggino con i miei bambini. Le memorie sono quindi positive. Molti svedesi spendono una fortuna per pagare l'affitto in stanze squallide senza bagno, per la semplice ambizione di vivere a Södermalm. Ieri sera ho trascorso una piacevolissima serata in un ristorante della zona con i miei colleghi. Ció che non riesco a spiegarmi è perchè ogni volta che mi trovo a Södermalm mi cali addosso un'incredibile e sgradevole malinconia. Proprio non comprendo. Osservo la gente che gioca a bocce ai giardini o le bancarelle di fiori in piazza e mi sento...triste, senza motivo. Non provo mai quella sensazione in altre parti della cittá...che stranezza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-217498400950342973?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/217498400950342973/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=217498400950342973' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/217498400950342973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/217498400950342973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/09/some-things-are-just-hard-to-explain.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TIvDlfJtalI/AAAAAAAAByQ/P_PD9xOIrdA/s72-c/SDERMA~1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-8175032894750907535</id><published>2010-09-02T18:35:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-02T18:44:47.828+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Work in progress</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TH_SkvYl7OI/AAAAAAAAByA/wQeFq9g2L9s/s1600/kitchen+in+progress+005.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512355997561515234" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TH_SkvYl7OI/AAAAAAAAByA/wQeFq9g2L9s/s400/kitchen+in+progress+005.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; In the midst of totally remodelling our kitchen from floor to ceiling Mats, who is doing everything on his own, has found the time to welcome us home tonight to a set table (the one from the balcony) and a cooked supper of baked beans and hot dogs. We spent a long time around the table eating and talking, feeling touched by his kindness, happy for warm food and somehow with a Christmas feeling in the air. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anche se completamente preso dal rinnovare la cucina da pavimento a soffitto, lavoro che fa completamente da solo, Mats ha preso il tempo questa sera per farci trovare una tavola (quella del balcone) apparecchiata e la cena servita, fagioli in scatola e hot dogs.  Abbiamo trascorso la serata attorno la tavola, chiacchierando, mangiando (finalmente un piatto caldo) ed in qualche modo sentendoci come a Natale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-8175032894750907535?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/8175032894750907535/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=8175032894750907535' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8175032894750907535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8175032894750907535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/09/work-in-progress.html' title='Work in progress'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TH_SkvYl7OI/AAAAAAAAByA/wQeFq9g2L9s/s72-c/kitchen+in+progress+005.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-142561348880428354</id><published>2010-08-29T15:49:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-29T16:28:50.622+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/THpuIJ4mJZI/AAAAAAAABx4/Dk5XLrSUpTY/s1600/9788817114110.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 195px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510838180412532114" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/THpuIJ4mJZI/AAAAAAAABx4/Dk5XLrSUpTY/s320/9788817114110.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/THpuHpDoO4I/AAAAAAAABxw/fYaUtNOTasQ/s1600/dacia-maraini.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 214px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5510838171600436098" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/THpuHpDoO4I/AAAAAAAABxw/fYaUtNOTasQ/s320/dacia-maraini.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/THpm7R-P59I/AAAAAAAABxo/rpOAj3Bd0Sk/s1600/9788817114110.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/THpm60nkGmI/AAAAAAAABxg/GyVnJTyXb-s/s1600/dacia-maraini.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Vorrei che Marianna tenesse compagnia al lettore/trice con il suo silenzio carico di pensieri."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(Dacia Maraini. Intervista rilasciata a ItaliaLibri)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mia sorella Paola si sta facendo esperta a trovare letteratura Italiana che mi faccia venire l'aquolina alla bocca e volare farfalle nel ventre. Dal nord al sud dello stivale, dal '500 ai giorni nostri, non ha fallito una volta. &lt;em&gt;La lunga vita di Marianna Ucría, &lt;/em&gt;di Dacia Maraini (compagna di Alberto Moravia),&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;narra di Bagheria in Sicilia, metá Settecento. Una bimba nobile divenuta sordomuta dopo essere stata violentata dallo zio pedofilo, al quale viene piú tardi "regalata" in sposa all'etá di 13 anni, come era usanza allora. Una storia che racconta di una donna che non si lascia amputare dalle brutali restrizioni del suo tempo e del suo fisico, ma che affronta la vita con curiositá e passione. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ultimamente mi si chiede di tanto in tanto perchè non scrivo una storia mia. La domanda mi lusinga e tocca un tasto frivolo che mi fa solleticare le dita. Ma la risposta è molto semplice, non scrivo una storia mia perchè non potrei scrivere cosí. E non si tratta solo di tecnica, quella sarebbe la collina piú semplice (e piú sterile) da sormontare o da imitare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My sister Paola is becoming a real expert in finding for me italian literature that whets my appetite and causes butterflies to fly in my stomach. From the north to the south of our "boot", from the 1500's to our days, she has not yet failed. &lt;em&gt;The silent duchess, &lt;/em&gt;by Dacia Maraini tells of Bagheria in Sicily. A child of noble descent who became deaf-mute after having been raped by an uncle. As it was costum in those days she is given away in marriage at the age of 13 to that same uncle. A story that tells of a woman who does not allow her time and her handicap to rob her of her passion and curiosity for life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lately I am asked, now and then, why I do not write a story of my own. It is the sort of question that makes me puff up like a peacock and tickles my finger tops. But the answer is very simple, I do not write a story of my own because I could never write like this. It is not a matter of technique, that would be the easy (and drier) bit to get over and to learn. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-142561348880428354?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/142561348880428354/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=142561348880428354' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/142561348880428354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/142561348880428354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/08/vorrei-che-marianna-tenesse-compagnia.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/THpuIJ4mJZI/AAAAAAAABx4/Dk5XLrSUpTY/s72-c/9788817114110.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-44837558799418584</id><published>2010-08-29T12:12:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-29T13:18:42.020+02:00</updated><title type='text'>V and F made my day toghether with the elephants</title><content type='html'>The last thing Mats and I expected to see when we walked down the field with the dog this morning, was three elephants and camels pasturing around. The circus must have landed very early this morning letting the animals out of the wagons to stretch their limbs and have some breakfast behind a make shift ranch of ropes while they put up the humangous tent. I have never seen elephants that close. Camels and lamas either, to be honest. Who better to share this with than my two toddler buddies? So I sent stressy text messeges to their parents, making them rush through their sunday mornings family-, sleep-in and lazy breakfast time to come down to the field. One of the families had to bring their porridge with them. The joy expressed by toddlers getting together with elephants and camels an early sunday morning is not an everyday luxury. I am so glad for parents who take such chances and I shall make it up to you guys (I mean the parents)!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'ultima cosa che io e Mats ci aspettavamo di trovare questa mattina nel campo, quando siamo usciti con il nostro cane, erano tre elefanti e dei cammelli che pascolavano indisturbati. Il circo deve essere arrivato presto questa mattina e lasciato liberi gli animali dietro ad un recinto provvisorio fatto di corde, mette tiravano su il tendone. Non ho mai visto un elefante cosí da vicino. Per dirla tutta nemmeno dei cammelli o dei lama, tanto vicini. Chi sarebbe stato piú adatto a condividere questa esperienza con noi dei miei due amici di due anni preferiti? Cosí ho iniziato a mandare messaggi stressati al cellulare dei loro genitori, incitandoli a venire, interrompendo la pace, la colazione e la pigrizia rituale della domenica mattina. Una delle due famiglie si è addirittura portata la colazione appresso. Ma la gioia espressa all'appuntamento di due-enni con elefanti e cammelli non è un lusso di tutti i giorni. Sono tanto contenta che ci siano genitori che non si fanno perdere certe opportunitá!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-44837558799418584?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/44837558799418584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=44837558799418584' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/44837558799418584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/44837558799418584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/08/w-and-f-made-my-day-toghether-with.html' title='V and F made my day toghether with the elephants'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-2780725096947551314</id><published>2010-08-25T19:34:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-25T19:35:46.139+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/THVUOfkN7rI/AAAAAAAABxY/VT1bLm1tbSs/s1600/decor_bok.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 236px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509402327125978802" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/THVUOfkN7rI/AAAAAAAABxY/VT1bLm1tbSs/s400/decor_bok.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; That lady must be really, really happy. Don't you think she looks totally happy?&lt;br /&gt;Quella signora deve essere davvero felice. Non sembra completamente felice?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-2780725096947551314?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/2780725096947551314/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=2780725096947551314' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/2780725096947551314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/2780725096947551314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/08/that-lady-must-be-really-really-happy.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/THVUOfkN7rI/AAAAAAAABxY/VT1bLm1tbSs/s72-c/decor_bok.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-1852960801501076127</id><published>2010-08-25T18:46:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-25T19:00:18.345+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Care for a cup of tea?</title><content type='html'>It all started with Mats saying: "I am off a few days, may be we can start planning on renovating the kitchen". Next day I come home after a very long and not so good day at work, picturing myself on my armchair, legs up, a steaming cup of tea and "La lunga vita di Marianna Ucría" in my hands. When I entered our home I found this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tutto è iniziato con Mats che dice:" Ho qualche giorno libero, forse possiamo iniziare a progettare la nuova cucina". Il giorno dopo tornando da una giornata di lavoro troppo lunga ed per niente semplice, anelavo alla mia poltrona, gambe rannicchiate, una tazza di te e "La lunga vita di Marianna Ucría" tra le mani. Quando sono entrata in casa ho trovato questo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/THVJJtHmxCI/AAAAAAAABxQ/k4QcLPtNQi8/s1600/kitchen+006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509390150236816418" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/THVJJtHmxCI/AAAAAAAABxQ/k4QcLPtNQi8/s400/kitchen+006.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/THVJI1KQXgI/AAAAAAAABxI/cmtYPDkH348/s1600/kitchen+004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509390135215545858" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/THVJI1KQXgI/AAAAAAAABxI/cmtYPDkH348/s400/kitchen+004.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/THVJIXcYDKI/AAAAAAAABxA/RCduFkci2JQ/s1600/kitchen+011.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509390127238483106" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/THVJIXcYDKI/AAAAAAAABxA/RCduFkci2JQ/s400/kitchen+011.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ....and a smiling man working his heart out on pulling down cupboards. So if you had planned to stop by for a cup of tea today, you might want to wait, because I am not really sure where the tea is. We haven't even ordered a new kitchen yet. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;...ed un marito raggiante tutto preso dal demolire la vecchia cucina. Quindi se avevi in progetto di passare per una tazza di te, forse è meglio aspettare, perchè non so nemmeno dove siano le bustine. E non abbiamo neanche ordinato la cucina nuova.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-1852960801501076127?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/1852960801501076127/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=1852960801501076127' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1852960801501076127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1852960801501076127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/08/care-for-cup-of-tea.html' title='Care for a cup of tea?'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/THVJJtHmxCI/AAAAAAAABxQ/k4QcLPtNQi8/s72-c/kitchen+006.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-6815046323602110333</id><published>2010-08-19T19:16:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-19T19:34:49.393+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Gurdi gurdi gurdi</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-45e82d16ef80c9a" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v3.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D045e82d16ef80c9a%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D41BD87C5B21DD33054743209CE620F2737F006B8.A390977DB211047158C080EB05D3A1B4F7D1A22%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D45e82d16ef80c9a%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3D7XmOlvQOmAbPgTpWcloL6veZ9Ck&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v3.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D045e82d16ef80c9a%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1330268310%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D41BD87C5B21DD33054743209CE620F2737F006B8.A390977DB211047158C080EB05D3A1B4F7D1A22%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D45e82d16ef80c9a%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3D7XmOlvQOmAbPgTpWcloL6veZ9Ck&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I tend to throw myself in all kinds of languages without knowing anyone of them well enough (not even my own mother-tongue). People who are not acquainted with the language I try to speak might become quite impressed with my "abilities". Thing is that I am probably a crazier actor than a polyglot. A bit like Catherine Tate in this sketch.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tendo a buttarmi e cercare di parlare diverse lingue senza conoscerne nessuna abbastanza bene (nemmeno quella mia natale). Chi mi sente senza conoscere la lingua che cerco di parlare potrebbe rimanere impresso dalle mie "capacitá". La realtá è che sono probabilmente migliore attrice che poliglotta, un poco come Catherine Tate in questo video.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-6815046323602110333?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/6815046323602110333/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=6815046323602110333' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/6815046323602110333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/6815046323602110333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/08/i-tend-to-throw-myself-in-all-kind-of.html' title='Gurdi gurdi gurdi'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-6080497235628922498</id><published>2010-08-08T18:49:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-08T18:50:37.917+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Jessie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TF7gUNn8bWI/AAAAAAAABw4/31-b2bUT6gA/s1600/39333_419272841245_527556245_5271155_6696864_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503082432552529250" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TF7gUNn8bWI/AAAAAAAABw4/31-b2bUT6gA/s400/39333_419272841245_527556245_5271155_6696864_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-6080497235628922498?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/6080497235628922498/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=6080497235628922498' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/6080497235628922498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/6080497235628922498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/08/jessie.html' title='Jessie'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TF7gUNn8bWI/AAAAAAAABw4/31-b2bUT6gA/s72-c/39333_419272841245_527556245_5271155_6696864_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-8717123173587967102</id><published>2010-08-04T14:06:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-04T14:39:17.287+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>It is full activity at the school by our apartments' block. People are hanging outside windows polishing and I see floor moppers from the large windows. Getting ready for a new school year. School year 2010-2011, the only one ever. I am always both appalled and challenged by the thought. "You have got one shot with your coming class. This school year will never, ever come back". I write this wearing a kitchen apron and keeping an eye on the potatoes-moussaka baking in the oven. I hardly ever wear a kitchen apron during a school year and I will miss this. Planning food that takes time in the making. Instead it will soon be: what's in the fridge that has not gone out of date and what can be made that has some nutritional value and only takes 15 minutes to prepare? Our family lives on omelettes during the school year. My only shot at it. Once home I opened my work mail, a first after two months of summer break. No mails, yet. I phoned my school and spoke with our friendly administrator. She is already at it, planning and preparing for the new school year, in an empty building that echoes when she speaks out loud. My class is full. 23-24 5th graders are at this very moment trying, like me to tune in to the unique, never to come back, school year 2010-2011. They still have a couple of weeks free. I start next week. Ready?...For the teaching bit yes, for the travelling back and forth and the Kilimanjaro of administration waiting, not at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'è piena attivitá alla scuola di fianco a casa nostra. Pulisci-vetro sono appesi alle finestre dall'esterno e vedo muoversi all'interno squadre di pulisci-pavimento. Ci si prepara ad un nuovo anno scolastico. Anno 2010-2011. Unico per eccellenza. Sono sempre presa da un misto di panico ed entusiasmo all'idea. "Hai solo una possibilitá con questa classe. Un anno scolastico non torna mai, MAI." Scrivo queste righe indossando un grembiule da cucina mentre tengo d'occhio una moussaka di patate che cuoce nel forno. Non indosso quasi mai un grembiule da cucina durante un anno scolastico. Mi mancherá programmare pasti che richiedono tempo per la preparazione. Presto sará nuovamente: cosa c'è di non scaduto nel frigorifero, e cosa possiamo preparare di nutriente in 15 minuti.? La nostra famiglia vive di frittate durante l'anno scolastico. Unico per eccellenza. Una volta rientrata in casa ho aperto la mia posta elettronica di lavoro, per la prima volta dopo due mesi. Per il momento ancora vuota. Ho chiamato la scuola e chiacchierato con la nostra simpatica segretaria. Giá al lavoro a pianificare e preparare per un nuovo anno scolastico. In una scuola vuota che fa eco quando parla a voce alta. La mia classe è al completo. 23-24 alunni di quinta elementare stanno probabilmente come me cercando di sintonizzarsi all'idea di ritornare a scuola. Loro hanno ancora due settimane di libertá. Io inizio la settimana prossima. Pronta?....ad insegnare, sempre. A viaggiare ogni giorno ed affrontare il Kilimanjaro di amministrazione che mi spetta, per nulla al mondo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-8717123173587967102?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/8717123173587967102/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=8717123173587967102' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8717123173587967102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8717123173587967102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/08/it-is-full-activity-at-school-by-our.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-2934190282626214479</id><published>2010-08-03T16:34:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-03T16:39:06.435+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Leota's garden</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TFgp8-0jSvI/AAAAAAAABww/0NRI2Y9e-Rw/s1600/978-0-8423-3498-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 133px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501193072465365746" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TFgp8-0jSvI/AAAAAAAABww/0NRI2Y9e-Rw/s200/978-0-8423-3498-3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TFgpFnq-gZI/AAAAAAAABwo/ZxPWPplGxAo/s1600/978-0-8423-3498-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TFgpFYf7k7I/AAAAAAAABwg/FJRS2Qhggeo/s1600/francine_rivers.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 307px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501192117285524402" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TFgpFYf7k7I/AAAAAAAABwg/FJRS2Qhggeo/s320/francine_rivers.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Christian fiction. Family relationships, misunderstandings, tough questions, good reading.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Romanzo cristiano. Rapporti familiari, incomprensioni, domande forti, buona lettura.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-2934190282626214479?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/2934190282626214479/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=2934190282626214479' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/2934190282626214479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/2934190282626214479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/08/leotas-garden.html' title='Leota&apos;s garden'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TFgp8-0jSvI/AAAAAAAABww/0NRI2Y9e-Rw/s72-c/978-0-8423-3498-3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-1307038437493255577</id><published>2010-08-03T15:39:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-08-03T15:58:50.169+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>The weirdest thing happened to me today. I went for my yearly check up at the dentists' and had to endure the hottest flirtation between the dentist and his nurse. I sat on the chair gaping (you are suppose to gape when at the dentists') while the dentist was blinking, laughing and taking every opportunity to touch the nurse, in the meantime she was totally dancing like a pullet, making moves around my chair, slapping him on the hand that he was holding the little round mirror with. At one point after she had taken pictures of my jaw and was trying to instruct me about fluor-rinsing, he said to me looking at her "you should also rinse regularly with Coca Cola", at which they both burst out laughing like wakos, leaving me totally speechless. My regular dentist is on holyday and I had a substitute. I found myself hoping he was a real dentist and not the janitor filling in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi mi è accaduta una cosa stranissima. Sono stata dal dentista per il controllo annuale ed ho assistito all'incredibile flirt tra il dentista e l'infermiera. Me ne stavo lí seduta sulla sedia a bocca spalancata (dal dentista si spalanca la bocca) mentre il dentista faceva a piú non posso l'occhiolino all'infermiera, ridacchiando come un baccalá e toccandola appena ne aveva l'opportunitá. Intanto l'infermiera faceva balletti intorno alla sedia, ridendo come una pollastrella e schiaffeggiando la mano del dentista con la quale teneva lo specchietto da inserirmi in bocca. Ad un certo momento dopo avermi fatto i raggi alle mascelle, l'infermiera mi stava spiegando come risciaquare con il fluoro, il dentista ha interrotto dicendo, sempre sguardo fisso su di lei: "faccia anche risciacqui di Coca-Cola", al che entrambe sono scoppiati in una risata scema lasciandomi completamente esterefatta. La mia dentista abituale è in ferie e questo era un sostituto. Mi chiedo se era veramente un dentista oppure l'addetto alle pulizie?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-1307038437493255577?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/1307038437493255577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=1307038437493255577' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1307038437493255577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1307038437493255577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/08/weirdest-thing-happened-to-me-today.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-3615575313725788654</id><published>2010-07-29T22:28:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-29T22:29:55.373+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TFHkh-pBlxI/AAAAAAAABwY/gk5sHOitvOA/s1600/transform+and+italy+2010+082.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499427892397971218" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TFHkh-pBlxI/AAAAAAAABwY/gk5sHOitvOA/s400/transform+and+italy+2010+082.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;Aramia, a friendship of many years...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-3615575313725788654?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/3615575313725788654/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=3615575313725788654' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3615575313725788654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3615575313725788654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/07/aramia-friendship-of-many-years.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TFHkh-pBlxI/AAAAAAAABwY/gk5sHOitvOA/s72-c/transform+and+italy+2010+082.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-3060043023249555735</id><published>2010-07-29T22:23:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-29T22:27:19.022+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Grandparents</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TFHkEaF4QUI/AAAAAAAABwQ/Pi1vWN6LYb4/s1600/transform+and+italy+2010+062.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499427384370676034" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TFHkEaF4QUI/AAAAAAAABwQ/Pi1vWN6LYb4/s400/transform+and+italy+2010+062.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TFHkECDNNLI/AAAAAAAABwI/Wppe1BIqhYQ/s1600/transform+and+italy+2010+109.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 322px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499427377917015218" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TFHkECDNNLI/AAAAAAAABwI/Wppe1BIqhYQ/s400/transform+and+italy+2010+109.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-3060043023249555735?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/3060043023249555735/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=3060043023249555735' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3060043023249555735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3060043023249555735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/07/grandparents.html' title='Grandparents'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TFHkEaF4QUI/AAAAAAAABwQ/Pi1vWN6LYb4/s72-c/transform+and+italy+2010+062.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-3707102444126566774</id><published>2010-07-17T10:59:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-17T11:03:06.322+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TEFxB22gt0I/AAAAAAAABvw/OJPSJUDMNrM/s1600/Somalian+WC+2010+007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494797297086674754" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TEFxB22gt0I/AAAAAAAABvw/OJPSJUDMNrM/s400/Somalian+WC+2010+007.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#666666;"&gt;Celebrating Marcus' last day at his summer job. Happy holidays Maccan!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;Festeggiando l'ultimo giorno di lavoro estivo di Marcus. Buone vacanze Maccan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-3707102444126566774?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/3707102444126566774/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=3707102444126566774' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3707102444126566774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3707102444126566774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/07/celebrating-marcus-last-day-at-his.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TEFxB22gt0I/AAAAAAAABvw/OJPSJUDMNrM/s72-c/Somalian+WC+2010+007.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-7101632938817597212</id><published>2010-07-17T10:53:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-17T10:59:02.609+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Somalian soccer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TEFvy3YbR1I/AAAAAAAABvo/MLb-R0Y6NgM/s1600/Somalian+WC+2010+004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494795940019259218" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TEFvy3YbR1I/AAAAAAAABvo/MLb-R0Y6NgM/s320/Somalian+WC+2010+004.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TEFvqabO-VI/AAAAAAAABvg/1M6HtgVHVM4/s1600/Somalian+WC+2010+011.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 197px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494795794807454034" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TEFvqabO-VI/AAAAAAAABvg/1M6HtgVHVM4/s200/Somalian+WC+2010+011.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TEFvqFaroNI/AAAAAAAABvY/Tc3Gas9K9Y4/s1600/Somalian+WC+2010+013.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 113px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494795789167993042" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TEFvqFaroNI/AAAAAAAABvY/Tc3Gas9K9Y4/s200/Somalian+WC+2010+013.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;On the soccer fields down our road there is a world turnament going on. It is the somalian championship, with teams from all over the world. It is fun to watch.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nei campi da calcio vicino a casa c'è il campionato di calcio somalo. Squadre di calciatori somali partecipano da tutto il mondo. E´una vera festa di musica, sport e cultura.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-7101632938817597212?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/7101632938817597212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=7101632938817597212' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7101632938817597212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7101632938817597212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/07/somalian-wc.html' title='Somalian soccer'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TEFvy3YbR1I/AAAAAAAABvo/MLb-R0Y6NgM/s72-c/Somalian+WC+2010+004.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-1150558312922212505</id><published>2010-07-16T19:20:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T19:50:42.321+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Sandhamn</title><content type='html'>My collegue Margot and I have a summer tradition. One day during the summer we take the ferry and spend the day at Sandhamn (= port of sand), which is one of the islands in the archipelago in Stockholm. It is a two and half hours' journey one way. You can reach Sandhamn only by seaway, therefore there are no vehicles on the island. Today was the D day, perfect weather, perfect sea, perfect everything..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;This blog of mine is turning into a tourist brochure of Stockholm, but after the rigid winter we have had, I am enjoying this hot summer bit by bit. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Con la mia collega Margot ho una tradizione estiva che ripetiamo da anni. Un giorno durante le vacanze della scuola prendiamo il traghetto e trascorriamo la giornata a Sandhamn (=porto della sabbia), una delle isole dell'arcipelago di Stoccolma. Sandhamn si raggiunge solo via mare (due ore e mezzo di navigazione) e quindi è compeltamente libera di auto. Oggi è stata la giornata ideale per la nostra gita, clima perfetto, mare perfetto, tutto perfetto...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Questo mio blog sta diventanto un depliant turistico su Stoccolma, ma dopo l'inverno rigido che abbiamo avuto, sto godendo di questa estate calda pezzettino per pezzettino.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TECVdgjeDyI/AAAAAAAABvQ/o1kO-P0Yihg/s1600/Sandhamn+160710+006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 252px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494555879579455266" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TECVdgjeDyI/AAAAAAAABvQ/o1kO-P0Yihg/s400/Sandhamn+160710+006.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TECVc8WfyCI/AAAAAAAABvI/gTHZ-bFMaMo/s1600/Sandhamn+160710+007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494555869861365794" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TECVc8WfyCI/AAAAAAAABvI/gTHZ-bFMaMo/s400/Sandhamn+160710+007.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TECVcFHfhII/AAAAAAAABvA/cfq6HhxsCIc/s1600/Sandhamn+160710+008.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 184px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494555855034483842" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TECVcFHfhII/AAAAAAAABvA/cfq6HhxsCIc/s400/Sandhamn+160710+008.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TECVbmO05GI/AAAAAAAABu4/yAEsb-jsRjI/s1600/Sandhamn+160710+002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494555846743745634" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TECVbmO05GI/AAAAAAAABu4/yAEsb-jsRjI/s400/Sandhamn+160710+002.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TECVax6DrfI/AAAAAAAABuw/L0-WnTIoaOs/s1600/Sandhamn+160710+005.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494555832697990642" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TECVax6DrfI/AAAAAAAABuw/L0-WnTIoaOs/s400/Sandhamn+160710+005.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-1150558312922212505?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/1150558312922212505/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=1150558312922212505' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1150558312922212505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/1150558312922212505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/07/sandhamn.html' title='Sandhamn'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TECVdgjeDyI/AAAAAAAABvQ/o1kO-P0Yihg/s72-c/Sandhamn+160710+006.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-7264064384715203267</id><published>2010-07-15T17:39:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-15T17:50:39.626+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Tabbouleh for supper</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD8r69VIasI/AAAAAAAABuo/GiiE3RgD1kA/s1600/jessie+007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 335px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494158362310896322" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD8r69VIasI/AAAAAAAABuo/GiiE3RgD1kA/s400/jessie+007.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Jessie and I made Tabbouleh for supper:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 cups bulgur&lt;br /&gt;a lot of parsley (a real lot!)&lt;br /&gt;10-15 fresh mint leaves&lt;br /&gt;1/2 cucumber&lt;br /&gt;3 tomatoes&lt;br /&gt;2 red onions&lt;br /&gt;juice from 1 lemon&lt;br /&gt;4-5 spoons olive oil (extra virgin please)&lt;br /&gt;salt, pepper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Start with putting the bulgur in a bowl with water for 30 minutes.&lt;br /&gt;2) Chop the vegetables in small pieces&lt;br /&gt;3) Chop the parsley and the mint real tiny&lt;br /&gt;4) Mix everything&lt;br /&gt;5) Squeeze (like with your hands) the water out of the bulgut&lt;br /&gt;6) Mix everything together&lt;br /&gt;7) Salt, pepper, lemon and oil&lt;br /&gt;8) Bon apetit!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Io e Jessica abbiamo fatto Tabbouleh per cena.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 bicchieri di bulgur&lt;br /&gt;1 bel mazzo (bello grande) di prezzemolo&lt;br /&gt;10-15 foglie di menta fresca&lt;br /&gt;3 pomodori&lt;br /&gt;1/2 cetriolo&lt;br /&gt;2 cipolle rosse&lt;br /&gt;succo di un limone&lt;br /&gt;olio extra vergine d'oliva&lt;br /&gt;sale, pepe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) mettere il bulgur in una ciotola con abbondante acqua fredda, lasciar riposare 30 min.&lt;br /&gt;2) tagliare la verdura a dadi&lt;br /&gt;3) tritare il prezzemolo e la menta bene bene, come faceva la mia nonna Ada che era Nicki Lauda con la mezzaluna.&lt;br /&gt;4) strizzare (con le mani, a pugno, come con lo straccio) l'acqua dal bulgur&lt;br /&gt;5) Mescolare tutto bene e far esaltare il verde del prezzemolo&lt;br /&gt;6) olio, limone, sale, pepe&lt;br /&gt;7) Buon appetito!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-7264064384715203267?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/7264064384715203267/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=7264064384715203267' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7264064384715203267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7264064384715203267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/07/tabbouleh-for-supper.html' title='Tabbouleh for supper'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD8r69VIasI/AAAAAAAABuo/GiiE3RgD1kA/s72-c/jessie+007.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-4980521609131387555</id><published>2010-07-14T20:12:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-14T20:42:25.052+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Come in!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD3-J59yHDI/AAAAAAAABug/ckzoenvwyik/s1600/MC+utflykt+140610+010.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 256px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493826566594108466" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD3-J59yHDI/AAAAAAAABug/ckzoenvwyik/s400/MC+utflykt+140610+010.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-4980521609131387555?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/4980521609131387555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=4980521609131387555' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/4980521609131387555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/4980521609131387555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/07/blog-post.html' title='Come in!'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD3-J59yHDI/AAAAAAAABug/ckzoenvwyik/s72-c/MC+utflykt+140610+010.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-3250346422591353959</id><published>2010-07-14T15:23:00.014+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-14T20:44:07.946+02:00</updated><title type='text'>We've got wheels babe ♫</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD2-JQVy3rI/AAAAAAAABuQ/J5FWTWYzLDU/s1600/MC+utflykt+140610+001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493756186676354738" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD2-JQVy3rI/AAAAAAAABuQ/J5FWTWYzLDU/s320/MC+utflykt+140610+001.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Before Mats and I started a family, we owned and enjoyed (very much) a Moto Guzzi California. Once we sold the bike we kept the helmets which have followed us through the several transitions in several countries, always in the hope that may be someday, somewhere we might enjoy biking again. It has been over 20 years and I had totally forgotten the pleasure of riding a motorcycle on country roads a hot summer day. Therefore I document our new start with our old helmets. Life is rich, finding pleasure in fitting in leisure without forgetting all the commitments requires an effort at times. We are church people, in the sense that we like seeing churches, so we stopped several times because Sweden is very rich of churches, especially from the Middle ages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prima che io e Mats mettessimo su famiglia, possedevamo, e ci piaceva parecchio, una Moto Guzzi California. Dopo aver venduto la moto abbiamo conservato i caschi che ci hanno seguito nei vari trasferimenti in diversi paesi, sempre con la speranza di magari un giorno ricominciare a viaggiare in moto. Sono passati 20 anni ed avevo completamente dimenticato il piacere di andare in motocicletta per strade di campagna un giorno d'estate. Per questo documento questa giornata quí, un nuovo inizio con i nostri vecchi caschi. La vita puó essere molto ricca se si vuole. Mantenere la curiositá ed il piacere senza trascurare gli impegni giornalieri e di famiglia richiede un certo sforzo. Siamo gente di chiesa, nel senso che ci piace visitare chiese e sentirne la storia. Oggi ci siamo fermati parecchie volte perchè la Svezia è ricca di chiese, specialmente del Medioevo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD2-IuJ84PI/AAAAAAAABuI/zUjFwPyMKQQ/s1600/MC+utflykt+140610+018.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493756177499873522" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD2-IuJ84PI/AAAAAAAABuI/zUjFwPyMKQQ/s320/MC+utflykt+140610+018.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The church in Håtuna from 1100s'. Never heard of actually, we just saw the sign and turned right ...&lt;br /&gt;La chiesa di Håtuna del 1100. Mai sentita nominare, abbiamo semplicemente visto il segnale stradale ed abbiamo girato a destra...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD2-IB0DFhI/AAAAAAAABuA/77gjW1I_q9Y/s1600/MC+utflykt+140610+008.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493756165596845586" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD2-IB0DFhI/AAAAAAAABuA/77gjW1I_q9Y/s320/MC+utflykt+140610+008.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD2-Hpw8WuI/AAAAAAAABt4/SunFcz4FQC8/s1600/MC+utflykt+140610+007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493756159141370594" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD2-Hpw8WuI/AAAAAAAABt4/SunFcz4FQC8/s320/MC+utflykt+140610+007.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Sweden cemeteries are mostly placed around a church. The sign of this cemetery says in middle age swedish &lt;em&gt;"Lord teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom&lt;/em&gt;" from psalm 90:12 . I like that very much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Svezia i cimiteri sono per la maggior parte disposti attorno ad una chiesa. L'insegna di questo cimitero riporta in svedese medioevale: "&lt;em&gt;Insegnaci a contare i nostri giorni, per ottenere un cuore saggio"&lt;/em&gt; dal Salmo 90:12. Sono parole importanti per la mia vita.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29zRfoVOI/AAAAAAAABtw/3jxdvK375mo/s1600/MC+utflykt+140610+019.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 238px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493755809028920546" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29zRfoVOI/AAAAAAAABtw/3jxdvK375mo/s320/MC+utflykt+140610+019.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; We stopped outside the town of Sigtuna to buy a shrimp sandwich and a cup of coffee, from two very hyperactive sisters who run a little coffee house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ci siamo fermati a comperare un panino con i gamberi ed una tazza di caffé in un bar tenuto da due sorelle decisamente iperattive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29zA9JqzI/AAAAAAAABto/jrv97J4GcYI/s1600/MC+utflykt+140610+024.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493755804589337394" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29zA9JqzI/AAAAAAAABto/jrv97J4GcYI/s320/MC+utflykt+140610+024.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mats after the shrimps and after chatting with one of the two hyperactive sisters.&lt;br /&gt;Mats dopo i gamberi e dopo aver chiacchierato con una delle due sorelle iperattive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29yvfFx2I/AAAAAAAABtg/N9yFa2r5Fic/s1600/MC+utflykt+140610+036.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493755799899850594" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29yvfFx2I/AAAAAAAABtg/N9yFa2r5Fic/s320/MC+utflykt+140610+036.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sigtuna, one of the first towns of Sweden.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Sigtuna è una delle prime cittá svedesi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29x5y_y4I/AAAAAAAABtY/mAdmZDzOoG4/s1600/MC+utflykt+140610+031.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493755785487829890" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29x5y_y4I/AAAAAAAABtY/mAdmZDzOoG4/s320/MC+utflykt+140610+031.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interior of the church in Sigtuna, built by Magnus Ladulås, one of the first regents of Sweden in 1200s'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interno della chiesa di Sigtuna, costruita da Magnus Ladulås, uno dei primi reggenti di Svezia nel 1200&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29xfmyd8I/AAAAAAAABtQ/cJO3ayD6f3I/s1600/MC+utflykt+140610+032.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493755778457302978" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29xfmyd8I/AAAAAAAABtQ/cJO3ayD6f3I/s320/MC+utflykt+140610+032.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; We light a candle and say a prayer for Marcus &amp;amp; Jessica &amp;amp; Jia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una candelina ed una preghiera per Marcus &amp;amp; Jessica &amp;amp; Jia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29We6cSPI/AAAAAAAABtI/c07ay9qxw2Q/s1600/MC+utflykt+140610+034.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493755314414831858" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29We6cSPI/AAAAAAAABtI/c07ay9qxw2Q/s320/MC+utflykt+140610+034.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mats outside the church of Sigtuna. He looks a bit like an american cop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mats fuori dalla chiesa di Sigtuna. Sembra un poliziotto americano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29V2SkrnI/AAAAAAAABtA/x3U5nVq2W_o/s1600/MC+utflykt+140610+046.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493755303510191730" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29V2SkrnI/AAAAAAAABtA/x3U5nVq2W_o/s320/MC+utflykt+140610+046.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On our way back to Stockholm i.e. our dog, work, cooking for the kids etc. etc. We stopped by this last church, also from the 1100s'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tornando a Stoccolma: al cane, al lavoro, al far da mangiare ai ragazzi ecc. ecc. Ci siamo fermati a questa ultima chiesetta, sempre del 1100.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29VbVqI9I/AAAAAAAABs4/Cgix5D1nolE/s1600/MC+utflykt+140610+043.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493755296275375058" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29VbVqI9I/AAAAAAAABs4/Cgix5D1nolE/s320/MC+utflykt+140610+043.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Typical medieval wooden roof.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tetto tipico medioevale, di legno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29U_ECUBI/AAAAAAAABsw/f855e9k-o54/s1600/MC+utflykt+140610+041.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493755288685269010" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29U_ECUBI/AAAAAAAABsw/f855e9k-o54/s320/MC+utflykt+140610+041.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Detail from the church of Hammarby. In the middle ages people used the vikings' inscriptions- stones "runor" to build thick walls. It was a bit like when we nowadays use old newspapers to isolate a room.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Particolare della chiesa di Hammarby. Nel Medioevo si usavano le iscrizioni in pietra lasciate dai vichinghi (runor) per costruire pareti. E´un poco come quando noi usiamo giornali vecchi per isolare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29T_pyOWI/AAAAAAAABso/D6hS3vl6vHA/s1600/MC+utflykt+140610+037.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493755271663728994" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD29T_pyOWI/AAAAAAAABso/D6hS3vl6vHA/s320/MC+utflykt+140610+037.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-3250346422591353959?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/3250346422591353959/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=3250346422591353959' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3250346422591353959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/3250346422591353959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/07/weve-got-wheels-babe.html' title='We&apos;ve got wheels babe ♫'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TD2-JQVy3rI/AAAAAAAABuQ/J5FWTWYzLDU/s72-c/MC+utflykt+140610+001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-7534406300715804969</id><published>2010-07-13T18:58:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-13T19:28:30.288+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDybWEQnZaI/AAAAAAAABqw/zg_F4JBlLdw/s1600/Mats+och+Hondan+003.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493436448888022434" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDybWEQnZaI/AAAAAAAABqw/zg_F4JBlLdw/s400/Mats+och+Hondan+003.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDybVXSqiyI/AAAAAAAABqo/w3d5ZdTh7GQ/s1600/Mats+och+Hondan+001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493436436817021730" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDybVXSqiyI/AAAAAAAABqo/w3d5ZdTh7GQ/s400/Mats+och+Hondan+001.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;I have a very nice but not always flexible husband, especially when it comes to cars. It is only &lt;em&gt;Volvo&lt;/em&gt; that matters to him. Our car is a green old Volvo 855 (I think...not too sure) which breaks down and leaves the yearly inspection with a number of hang ups every single year. We have been biking around (on our bicycles) for the last week looking for a replacement which we can afford. An affordable Volvo turns out to be another very old Volvo. After much thinking and re-thinking, Mats has accepted the idea of leaving our Volvo in the hands of a trusworthy car-mechanic. Up to this day he has done all the reparations on the car himself, but it is now getting out of hand. Through a very intricated exchange with my father-in-law, the car is at the moment at a car-mechanics' on an island in the Baltic sea. Mind me, we live in the capital of Sweden, I am pretty sure there is at least one reliable mechanic here! Our kids know what they are saying when they tell that their father is going through a major inner revolution, not just by leaving the car in the hands of a professional (let be on an island in the Baltic), but also for him agreeing to use some of the savings for the car to buy himself a motorcycle, which he has been longing for for years. It's a kick for all of us to see him so radiant on his newly purchased veteran Honda...a 30 years old bike! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6600cc;"&gt;Ho un caro marito che non sempre è molto "elastico", specialmente quando si tratta di auto. Per Mats l'unica marca che ha valore è la &lt;em&gt;Volvo&lt;/em&gt;. Abbiamo una vecchia Volvo verde, una 855 (credo...non troppo sicura) che continua a rompersi e che esce da ogni revisione piena di guai. Durante l'ultima settimana siamo andati in bicicletta a cercare una "nuova" auto. Purtroppo quando si tratta di Volvo, l'unica auto che possiamo permetterci è un'altra vecchia. Dopo aver pensato e ripensato, Mats ha accettato di lasciare l'auto nelle mani di un meccanico. Si' perchè fino ad oggi ha fatto lui tutti i lavori ma ora la cosa sta andando fuori controllo. Cosí dopo una serie di intricati maneggi con mio suocero, ora la nostra auto si trova da un meccanico su un'isola del mar Baltico. Dico, viviamo nella capitale della Svezia e sono abbastanza sicura che viva quí perlomeno un meccanico capace? I miei figli sanno quello che dicono quando affermano che il loro padre sta subendo una rivoluzione interna, non solo per il fatto che abbia accettato di lasciare l'auto da un professionista (lasciando perdere la storia del Mar Baltico), ma anche perchè oggi ha accettato di usare parte dei risparmi per l'auto per comperarsi una motocicletta che da anni desidera.  E' semplicemente fantastico vedere il suo viso raggiante quando è sulla sua "nuova" Honda...di soli 30 anni!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-7534406300715804969?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/7534406300715804969/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=7534406300715804969' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7534406300715804969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/7534406300715804969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-have-very-nice-but-not-always.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDybWEQnZaI/AAAAAAAABqw/zg_F4JBlLdw/s72-c/Mats+och+Hondan+003.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-6823030883645001567</id><published>2010-07-11T19:05:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-11T19:07:35.514+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Astrid</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDn6AzIwtiI/AAAAAAAABqg/GGPQyMwmkmg/s1600/parkteatern+june+2010+016.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 260px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492696112188929570" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDn6AzIwtiI/AAAAAAAABqg/GGPQyMwmkmg/s400/parkteatern+june+2010+016.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;em&gt; Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-6823030883645001567?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/6823030883645001567/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=6823030883645001567' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/6823030883645001567'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/6823030883645001567'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/07/astrid.html' title='Astrid'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDn6AzIwtiI/AAAAAAAABqg/GGPQyMwmkmg/s72-c/parkteatern+june+2010+016.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-4007303178082648956</id><published>2010-07-09T23:16:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-09T23:48:42.147+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Parkteatern</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#ff6600;"&gt;"The theatre under the oak"  or "theatre in the park". A summer celebration as few for the people of Stockholm.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#009900;"&gt;"Il teatro sotto la quercia" o "il teatro nel parco". Una celebrazione estiva come poche per la popolazione di Stoccolma.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDeSsgB8AUI/AAAAAAAABqY/Kkxut8X06jc/s1600/parkteatern+june+2010+010.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 230px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492019563811569986" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDeSsgB8AUI/AAAAAAAABqY/Kkxut8X06jc/s320/parkteatern+june+2010+010.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;My very personal celebration: a program, a red blanket and a coffee in a cracked china cup.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;La mia celebrazione personale: un programma, una coperta rossa ed un caffé in una tazza di porcellana, crepata&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDeSsDLhK3I/AAAAAAAABqQ/zKn7gl5t-Ao/s1600/parkteatern+june+2010+009.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492019556067126130" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDeSsDLhK3I/AAAAAAAABqQ/zKn7gl5t-Ao/s320/parkteatern+june+2010+009.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Much tighter fellowship than the population of Stockholm is accostumed to. But everyone stayed&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;La popolazione di Stoccolma non è abituata a stare seduta cosí vicina.&lt;br /&gt;Ma tutti sono rimasti&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDeSrxhkGwI/AAAAAAAABqI/8d6oQ1tRhdM/s1600/parkteatern+june+2010+013.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 294px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492019551327755010" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDeSrxhkGwI/AAAAAAAABqI/8d6oQ1tRhdM/s320/parkteatern+june+2010+013.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Lilianne and Siv walking along the seaside, processing the strong messege of the play&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Lilianne e Siv sul lungomare, discutendo la rappresentazione.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDeSrYXdJ3I/AAAAAAAABqA/bqq1nwn1CA8/s1600/parkteatern+june+2010+012.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 278px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492019544574470002" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDeSrYXdJ3I/AAAAAAAABqA/bqq1nwn1CA8/s320/parkteatern+june+2010+012.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt; Sweet Siv&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Dolce Siv&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDeSq4MEpkI/AAAAAAAABp4/ukdoB1lBiBA/s1600/parkteatern+june+2010+011.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492019535936792130" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDeSq4MEpkI/AAAAAAAABp4/ukdoB1lBiBA/s320/parkteatern+june+2010+011.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Downtown Stockholm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stoccolma cittá&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-4007303178082648956?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/4007303178082648956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=4007303178082648956' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/4007303178082648956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/4007303178082648956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/07/parkteatern.html' title='Parkteatern'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDeSsgB8AUI/AAAAAAAABqY/Kkxut8X06jc/s72-c/parkteatern+june+2010+010.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-8429432385787314401</id><published>2010-07-07T20:57:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-07T21:00:53.236+02:00</updated><title type='text'>An unexpected guest</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDTON-d-zFI/AAAAAAAABpA/SE1sVL07sE0/s1600/Alg%2520i%2520tradgarden%2520Skephult%2520webb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 164px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491240585173847122" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDTON-d-zFI/AAAAAAAABpA/SE1sVL07sE0/s400/Alg%2520i%2520tradgarden%2520Skephult%2520webb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#006600;"&gt;Care for a lost elk in your garden?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#009900;"&gt;Un alce che si è perso è decisamente un ospite inatteso&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-8429432385787314401?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/8429432385787314401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=8429432385787314401' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8429432385787314401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/8429432385787314401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/07/unexpected-guest.html' title='An unexpected guest'/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDTON-d-zFI/AAAAAAAABpA/SE1sVL07sE0/s72-c/Alg%2520i%2520tradgarden%2520Skephult%2520webb.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128777272053896075.post-9069328953364542965</id><published>2010-07-07T15:13:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-07T20:44:32.137+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Kind of fun to be reading a book that fills me with anguish and fascination at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;the same time. T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDR9swleSkI/AAAAAAAABo4/t1PkWHwuyQE/s1600/secret-history1.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 129px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491152053581269570" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDR9swleSkI/AAAAAAAABo4/t1PkWHwuyQE/s200/secret-history1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;his is probably the least romantic novel I have read for awhile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;yet it is completely full of emotions and decadence. How could that be?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;The only way to find out is to read Donna Tartt's debut novel: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The secret&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;history&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; 'cause another book to compare it with it is hard to find. D.H Lawrence and Oscar Wilde mixed together might give a slight (very slight) idea. Definetly worth the reading experience.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Interessante leggere un libro che mi riempie di angoscia e di fascino al tempo stesso. Questo è probabilmente il romanzo meno romantico che leggo da un bel po', eppure lievita di emozioni intense e di decadenza. Come puó essere? L'unico modo per scoprirlo è leggere l'opera della debuttante Donna Tartt: &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;Dio d'illusioni&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;/em&gt;libro simile per farne un paragone è difficile trovarlo. D.H.Lawrence ed Oscar Wilde mescolati insieme forse (proprio forse) si avvicinano. Decisamente un'esperienza di lettura che raccomando. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3128777272053896075-9069328953364542965?l=viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/feeds/9069328953364542965/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3128777272053896075&amp;postID=9069328953364542965' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/9069328953364542965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3128777272053896075/posts/default/9069328953364542965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://viaggiovandringenjourney.blogspot.com/2010/07/kind-of-fun-to-be-reading-book-that.html' title=''/><author><name>Il Viaggio</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04121829009276103348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MI9neF7C0ys/TDR9swleSkI/AAAAAAAABo4/t1PkWHwuyQE/s72-c/secret-history1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
