I’m in Piedmont region in a country house up on a hillside surrounded by vineyards. I chat with my godmother. She is her mid eighty. The TV News in background talks about the US – Russia crisis, of the economic crisis and many other similar news. She looks at me and she starts telling me: […]
On the Road.
Every trip brings with it many strong feelings because it takes us outside from our routine. Those feelings passing from the enthusiasm while planning to the adrenaline of the leaving, from the fatigue when kilometres on the road are too many, till that mind status of relax and joy while world is just passing by […]
Life is like a photo.
Today we do not need many words, one phrase, one photo and a smile. “Life is like photography, if you smile it is better”.
Autumn’s dawn.
The sky of an autumn dawn, the Dolomites standing over the clouds, the freezing air of a photo taken at 3000 metres of height. A photo of exactly one year ago. With this photo I want to welcome the autumn. A season rich of colours, when forests begin to change the colour with an intense […]
One hundred years ago at Nova Vas.
Today is not a day like another. Time inexorably goes by, memory grow dim and memories fades away but not today! Today the clock points one hundred years ago. Time passed from that damned 17th September 1916. That date carved into my grandmother’s memory, 103 years old. The age brought away the clearness of her […]
Facing the Dolomites.
September is here, the air is clear. The Dolomites stand there close to the sky showing the charm of nature. We live always running, always being in hurry amongst a thousand of meetings and appointments and we lose the contact with nature. That amazing nature that brings meditation and questions without answers. Far away from […]
The volunteers value.
Summer brought me again to the Alps, this time at Pal Piccolo. A mountain cut, up to the top, by the border between Italy and Austria. Once reached the peak we had in front of us the usual horrific and crystallized panorama. Crossing that incredible tangle of trenches, we arrived to what was the first […]
The Christ of the Abyss.
Amongst the many Italian pearls there is San Fruttuoso di Camogli, a tiny village embedded in a small creek that you can reach only by walking on difficult paths or by the sea. It is a place of ancient suggestions with its abbey older more than a thousand years and its incredible stories and legends. […]
Moon reflections.
How many poets, painters, photographers and lovers inspired the moon? Through the centuries and millenniums she had been a silent companion to men clearing up their long nights. In a midsummer night I was on a small harbour dock with the moon just in front of me. I did not resist her glamour, once more, […]
Sailing the sea on board of the U Dragun!
There is a region were the mountains meet the sea. This is Liguria, a region upholder of millenary traditions, amazing landscapes and stories of ancient times. People from here have many centuries of seafaring experience. An experience that brought them to daring ventures that changed the marine history. Camogli is one of the pearls enclosed […]