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causeway'/><category term='vote'/><category term='scoperte'/><category term='autunno'/><category term='aereo'/><category term='maps'/><category term='singer'/><category term='snow'/><title type='text'>Huginn e Muninn</title><subtitle type='html'>Want to see the world, but too lazy to join the army? Check out this blog!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>111</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-8566564113800457437</id><published>2010-05-29T18:23:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-29T18:39:10.927+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='helsinki ricerca'/><title type='text'>So Finland it is...</title><content type='html'>Cosa è possibile fare oggi... so già perfettamente quale sarà il mio autobus la mattina, e quanta strada dovrò fare tra casa e la fermata, a che ora arriverò al palazzo del TKK di Helsinki.&lt;div&gt;So anche com'è fatto il mio appartamento da fuori, la stradina e i dintorni. Lo posso vedere da Google Street View.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tuttavia mi mancano ancora le informazioni essenziali su questa mia "avventura di ricerca" (ricerca intesa a tutti i livelli): come sarà? Come starò? Che impronta lascierà su di me?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Niente, di questo non posso sapere niente. Ed in fondo non lo saprò neanche dopo. Ancora rifletto sulla mia Germania e cerco di affrontare la mole di esperienze e sconvolgimenti accadutimi e non riesco con facilità a tirarci fuori le gambe.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So solo che amo smodatamente la Germania, ma non è quella la mia terra.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Poco male, accadeva lo stesso con la Norvegia, poi è arrivata Ulm, le campagne e il centrocittà raccolto. Magari domani la Finlandia mi farà lo stesso effetto...&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/556085913567246114-8566564113800457437?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/8566564113800457437/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=8566564113800457437' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8566564113800457437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8566564113800457437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2010/05/so-finland-it-is.html' title='So Finland it is...'/><author><name>Macro Petulante</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01625046049231467741</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-556085913567246114.post-4777074746538849727</id><published>2009-07-22T22:59:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2009-07-22T23:40:31.295+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='europe germany history &quot;European Union&quot; &quot;mi bruciano i seni&quot;'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>At last, some spare time!&lt;div&gt;I'd like to write something regarding Europe.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;By now I'm reading some of these very useful books, sorta "a very short and brief and remarkably easy history of ??? for dumb dummies" with "Europe" and "Germany" replacing ???.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For precisions' sake it's "A concise history of Germany" by Mary Fullbrook and "A very short introduction on the European Union" by J.Pinder &amp;amp; S.USherwood.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;They come from the Cambridge and Oxford university press, respectively, so despite being "simplified soups" for those without teeth, they are authoritative enough.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What I'm reading so far about EU is amazing. I've never known France had such an influential role over the other countries. But I'll give you later more insight on the topic, by now my time is nearly over and the book is just at its beginnings.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Germany book is interesting too, spanning over a thousand years of Mitteleuropean people history (it is, in fact, difficult to talk about Germany as a whole, since its borders and people moved and changed over the centuries). Germans are a very complex pot of peoples and dialects and traditions, and I love them the way they are... Ah, Germany... I'd love to be there again. Sneaking a glance over the roofs from my 20 squared meters "attic" (though attic sounds too nice... it was more of a loft... though it sounds still too good... anyways whatever you might call that pit, I loved it) and giving a glance to the tall Münster. That was life. No anxiety, no Berlusconi on front page anymore, your city major is not a thief, working on a world famous company and your career just at its beginnings, with free tea in the afternoon, a metal guy as a peer and a bear-ish Italian as a boss.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I smell some fresh air from the north, my way is going north again, I know that.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Possibly bringing some more colours to this blog again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ok, dreams fade away. I'm gonna read my Germany history for a while, trying to better understand that crazy people once again.&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bye everyone&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-4777074746538849727?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/4777074746538849727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=4777074746538849727' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/4777074746538849727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/4777074746538849727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2009/07/at-last-some-spare-time-id-like-to.html' title=''/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-7634823095521103092</id><published>2009-05-06T21:46:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-06T21:48:38.985+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vita'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='donne quasi completamente nude ma non proprio'/><title type='text'>Downstairs I hear...</title><content type='html'>Sotto di me, una coppia litiga. Si sentono le urla, gli oggetti urtati, ed infine, la porta che si sbatte. Le mani che violentano l'ascensore, chiedendogli la pietà di un viaggio veloce vero il basso...&lt;div&gt;Gli inferi? No, solo il portone d'uscita.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Litigano e litigano ancora, quei dolic coniugi, che un giorno pensarono di fare cosa buona e giusta nell'unire le loro vite.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ed io mi chiedo: dovrei forse invidiarli? La mia musica copre le urla...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-7634823095521103092?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/7634823095521103092/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=7634823095521103092' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7634823095521103092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7634823095521103092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2009/05/downstairs-i-hear.html' title='Downstairs I hear...'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-3856673947519534882</id><published>2009-04-13T23:28:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-13T23:42:04.338+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vita'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>C'è solo una linea sottile tra una vita ben realizzata e soddisfacente e una vita sprecata. Chiamatela provvidenza, se avete affiliazioni cristiane, oppure opportunità, se vi interessa più la politica; virtù, se credete nell'homo faber.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Difatti, ci fanno credere che possiamo realizzare al meglio le nostre vite, con gli acri ed il mulo che ci viene consegnato equamente dal capitalismo....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Stronzate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Facciamo i conti della nostra vita e alla fine non abbiamo veramente combinato un cazzo. E non ci sentiamo neanche orgogliosi di non aver fatto nessun danno almeno.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Basta cambiare punto di vista, e tutto si ribalta, una vita che sembrava perfetta poi diventa una perdita di tempo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Io? In questo enorme gioco di ruolo, sento che sto guadagnando esperienza. Prima o poi passerò di livello!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-3856673947519534882?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/3856673947519534882/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=3856673947519534882' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3856673947519534882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3856673947519534882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2009/04/ce-solo-una-linea-sottile-tra-una-vita.html' title=''/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-3098720708822574537</id><published>2009-04-02T16:08:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-02T16:11:09.599+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Hospital</title><content type='html'>I hope Huggin forgives me if I use this blog for my personal worthless scribblings.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;From a &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;way&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;too real&lt;/span&gt; experience.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p lang="it-IT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;HOSPITAL&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"&gt;I had a disease&lt;br /&gt;So I became a disease&lt;br /&gt;Something to be studied, eliminated.&lt;br /&gt;I became a machine&lt;br /&gt;a glass jar with a virus within.&lt;br /&gt;They pierce me with needles&lt;br /&gt;they take away my blood&lt;br /&gt;the blood of my kin&lt;br /&gt;the blood of my life.&lt;br /&gt;They put in me a new liquid&lt;br /&gt;slowly, drop by drop.&lt;br /&gt;The neon light in the ceiling hurts my eyes&lt;br /&gt;I wonder if there is a sun anymore&lt;br /&gt;I wonder if I'll see it again.&lt;br /&gt;I'm pierced again and left without knowing&lt;br /&gt;I don't know myself.&lt;br /&gt;I'm a machine. I have cables.&lt;br /&gt;Nothing is human, not even the disease.&lt;br /&gt;I'm carried on a chair. Machines have to be guided.&lt;br /&gt;My gaze is fixed in front of me. I stare at the ceiling.&lt;br /&gt;No thoughts in my brain. Liquids and pills make me work.&lt;br /&gt;For a moment I want myself back.&lt;br /&gt;But I forgot what it means.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-3098720708822574537?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/3098720708822574537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=3098720708822574537' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3098720708822574537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3098720708822574537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2009/04/hospital.html' title='Hospital'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-4103339562374715331</id><published>2009-03-12T11:07:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-12T11:19:54.448+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='killing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IRA'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='belfast'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><title type='text'>The empire strikes back</title><content type='html'>There is violence again in Northern Ireland.&lt;div&gt;Violence that wants to be named "Real IRA".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7938663.stm"&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7938663.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7933990.stm"&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7933990.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;People asked me - as if I were an expert - why now? Why after a relatively long time without "&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;political manslaughter&lt;/span&gt;" men start shooting policemen again? Especially in the peaceful city of Craigavon.  I don't know.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Perhaps hunger and violence are linked. Or maybe it's just the last bloody breath of an &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;army&lt;/span&gt; that is dying out.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Munin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Irenic &lt;/span&gt;or &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Irenical:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;adjective&lt;/span&gt;, intended to create peace.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-4103339562374715331?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/4103339562374715331/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=4103339562374715331' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/4103339562374715331'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/4103339562374715331'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2009/03/empire-strikes-back.html' title='The empire strikes back'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-7249698728043807420</id><published>2009-03-04T17:49:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T19:17:24.801+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lederhosen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knowledge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='germans'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nerd'/><title type='text'>Wissenlust</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/Sa6xq75kZLI/AAAAAAAAANw/rIJyRe0kj5k/s1600-h/knowledge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 146px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/Sa6xq75kZLI/AAAAAAAAANw/rIJyRe0kj5k/s200/knowledge.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309376361908167858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I am experiencing something not completely new and yet uncommon.&lt;div&gt;Desidre for greater knowledge; for every possible piece of knowledge man can have. Especially if it doesn't belong to my specific field.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There is a sick joy in suggesting a better word for a translation about chemistry, and a sick displeasure in noticing that after all, I don't know exactly how brain works.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For five years of high school I've been pampered with the idea of the "absolute man" who could master every knowledge. Now, I want more.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Therefore, I am going to study some more right now.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Munin&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;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Phlogiston&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;noun&lt;/span&gt;, a substance believed in earlier times to exist in all xombustible matter and to be released in combustion; the observed effects were subsequently found to be due to oxygen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;From Foyle's Philavery, a treasury of &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;unusual &lt;/span&gt;words&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-7249698728043807420?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/7249698728043807420/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=7249698728043807420' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7249698728043807420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7249698728043807420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2009/03/wissenlust.html' title='Wissenlust'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/Sa6xq75kZLI/AAAAAAAAANw/rIJyRe0kj5k/s72-c/knowledge.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-5478896694017842522</id><published>2009-02-27T16:32:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-07T17:43:31.190+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spremuta di patate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='febbra'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neve'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='D&apos;n&apos;D'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nerd'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>As always in life, "soon" comes much later than the worst expectations.&lt;div&gt;Things changed again, a new semester started and eventually I found it was time to write.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Part 1 - Verschiedenheit&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Vaasa is a nice city - at least it appear&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;s so when covered with snow. It is much more &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;heimlich&lt;/span&gt; than Lahti to me, I like the happier accent they have, rather different from the dull &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;etelä suomi&lt;/span&gt; accent. I loved the casheer that greets you with a "hej då".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Same goes with the university; a very small university as student number, though with the services and location of a prestigeous university (for italian standards). Freed&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;om of subjects and lots of entertaining activities for students. And how much is the fee? 0.00€&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now some trivia that non-finnish reader may find interesting - if there are any!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cold related trivia:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- your nose: when temperature sinks below -10, you will feel it. Or actually you won't feel at all. With such temperatures, I experienced l&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;oss of sensitivity and, after longer exposition, a little pain in the exposed parts. Moreover, the steam naturally produced by breathing needs shorter time to get liquid. Actually, after some time outside, I found water coming down my nose all the time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- The ghosts: smog produced my vehicles, for some reason, doesn't fly away, but remains for quite some time close to the ground, between 0 and 30 cm approx. These small cl&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ouds move close to the ground, and move as other cars approach; they stirred my immagination and to me they look like smoke ghosts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- The day when the snow melted in Vaasa I f&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;elt as if everything had changed. Roads looked different, and people felt "closer".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- There is an entire road in Vaasa city centre which is warmed, so that snow never covers it. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Non-cold-related trivia:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Not only Finnish students love to drink and&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; sing ominous songs while they do it: they also wear overalls in such occasions. I know that students are sometimes called "the workers of knowledge", but isn't this a too lit&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;eral interpretation?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Part 2 - Ma maison c'est la meilleur, car elle a une porte e des fenetres...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A new semester has come. Study again, lectures, and some of them are even pleasant. My last semester it appears to be... for the time being; of the future I do not know!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I started writing a short essay called "Pride is Prejudice" which by the way has nothing to do with Jane Austin. We had another D&amp;amp;D session and we are waiting everybody to be back, for the "incredibly funny thing" the master has promised us weeks ago.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The world is sinking down at hyper-speed; world economy is crumbling as a dead golem.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I don't like to boast, but I said it. Who has&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; known me for some time knows that since when I was 14 I am expecting a world catastrophe, showing the crazyness of the whole system we built. Social Darwinism is the exc&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;use european (and therefore also american) race* has used for a long time to justify aggression and violence towards other people, and now it seems we europans have totally failed with this economic system. Schade. Perhaps people will learn how to "feed on dry tubers" or perhaps not. Nothing in the universe is stubborn as a human being.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Myself, I find much pleasure in books, lectures and games. Useless things are the greatest creation of human mind. Nobody but us could create the Beowulf or Blackgammon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And now, to pamper your eyes, a random picture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SbKemwKXuQI/AAAAAAAAAN4/3h3oLV3ekzo/s200/GOD%2BLISTENS.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 140px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310481299223853314" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-5478896694017842522?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/5478896694017842522/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=5478896694017842522' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5478896694017842522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5478896694017842522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2009/02/as-always-in-life-soon-comes-much-later.html' title=''/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SbKemwKXuQI/AAAAAAAAAN4/3h3oLV3ekzo/s72-c/GOD%2BLISTENS.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-5713273610029598555</id><published>2009-01-14T15:57:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-14T16:40:20.679+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finlandesi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aeroplane'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ski'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='skating'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yellow stuff'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finocchio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tampere'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vaasa'/><title type='text'>Destination -20</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SW4HI-W8l6I/AAAAAAAAAM0/n2MPU8fiYL0/s1600-h/IMG_4963.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SW4HI-W8l6I/AAAAAAAAAM0/n2MPU8fiYL0/s200/IMG_4963.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291174462966503330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finland, again.&lt;div&gt;As a zealot pilgrim I reach the airport very early. 3AM.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Airports feel like home. Tired people, farewells, hopes. Check-in, security controls. I am not afraid of security controls, when I am not violating rules: on the contrary, I almost feel proud of being searched personally, of being looked at, asked to take off my belt, and checked. After all, they are caring for our safety, right?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Finnish people start queuing already 45 minutes before the gate opens, and scared italians follow, at safe distance, the pale tall people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A flight like many others. I know that every single flight has a little wonder, be it for good or bad: a particular landscape, a fire dawn, or just a peculiar hostess. This one had its own.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And Finland again. The refreshing snow, the -3 degrees, the white. Italians on a bus, totally bewildered, with a finnish girl acting as a guide: this is my first company.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The bus eventually leaves me at the usual destination: Tampere. The bridge, the square.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Good old people for a totally new Silvester. It is my first time that I spend my second most hated holiday (the first being carnival) abroad. What does "abroad" mean anyway...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Languages give our characters consistency, depth. A man who speak Danish must then be Danish, so that Denmark is the only place where he can be. If we would all speak the same language, our identities would melt much more easily.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Back to Finland. More weird finnish food - I love it! - and more experiences.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A- The cold. How many &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;pakkasta&lt;/span&gt; (below zero) degrees can a foreigner survive? With decent gear - which means, I didn't go shopping at "North Pole TM", just wise winter clothes - I  pushed my way through -11 totally fine. I can't breathe deeply though: the air causes me to cough. Humidity created by the breathing process quickly turn into real water inside your nose. At extremes temperatures, exposed body part don't feel cold; they only loose sensitivity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;B- Skiing. Not downhill skiing, but &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;hiihtää&lt;/span&gt;, on borrowed &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;sukset&lt;/span&gt;. I never tried before, and of course, I sucked; I never fell though, and this made me decently proud.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;C- Ice Skating. What could be more crazy for an outlander than sliding on two long bars with the help of stick? Sliding on the ice on two thin blades without any other help. Ice skating for me is as safe as a holiday in Iraq. Nonetheless I bravely managed to circle several times the track. And it was total fun!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;That came before moving. Before taking a whole room and life possession, pile them in a truck, wake up at 5AM, travel 6 hrs on the said truck and bring out the worldy possessions inside a second floor apartment.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And that came before surviving, only for a couple of minutes, the -20.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now I am in Vaasa, and of this, I shall write more soon...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Munnin.&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/556085913567246114-5713273610029598555?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/5713273610029598555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=5713273610029598555' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5713273610029598555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5713273610029598555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2009/01/destination-20.html' title='Destination -20'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SW4HI-W8l6I/AAAAAAAAAM0/n2MPU8fiYL0/s72-c/IMG_4963.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-479264733588601310</id><published>2008-11-12T11:43:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T18:54:38.555+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='england'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='duration form'/><title type='text'>a trip to UK - Entropy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/SRq7-UFuHNI/AAAAAAAAAJk/f6WNNkiam6M/s1600-h/DSCN0050.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/SRq7-UFuHNI/AAAAAAAAAJk/f6WNNkiam6M/s200/DSCN0050.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267729393382202578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been to the UK to visit a friend. Very fancy trip! I've been to Nottingham and Birmingham. While the former gave me the right input to a true british city, with a story behind and a future ahead (represented by these nuclear plants I photographed? hope not!), the latter, a 2-millions citizens city, resembles very much an american city.&lt;div&gt;Birmingham impressed me, not completely in a good way. It has skyscrapers, but not very nice or tall, though very grey. The core of the city is not a church or a square, but a Mall, the Bullring. To reach the main night-entertainment street, Broad str., you have to pass through a shopping center instead of an arch or a loggia or an old palace and there's no other way to bypass it on foot.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What then? Ah, yep, weekend evenings: in broad street, there's a lot of discos, and disco-pubs, anyway a lot of places for in-people, for cool-people, for good-looking people, no way you can find a "sincere" pub and take a pint of ale in peace. Along that street, there are crowds of young people in fancy dresses, nearly naked, even with the worst weather ever (for which, they don't give a shit, never) screaming, laughing, waiting in long cues to get into their place to spend the night with loud music, several drinks and maybe a fuck. To control all that tide of human bodies and drunken people, tens of guards work there at night, at the entrance of the places, or along the street, or facilitating the cue for taxis. People are crazy there!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another thing I must say about England is that you never feel secure along the streets, not only at night. I heard many episodes which happened recently, therefore you should always keep an eye around yourself. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;People from Asia, Africa and near-east are everywhere and they almost speak in a fluent british accent, meaning they're UK citizens since generations. They anyway live often in ghettos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Let me take Small Heath as an example: Small Heath is a Birmingham district, populated by muslims, africans and asians. There you shouldn't dare making eye contact along the streets, people says.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is strange to me, as England is a country that has experienced immigrations for centuries.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;England is a very awkward country to my eyes. Much similar to the US, in fact, than I believed. A crazy country, whose sights and smells I'll never forget.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-479264733588601310?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/479264733588601310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=479264733588601310' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/479264733588601310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/479264733588601310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/11/trip-to-uk-entropy.html' title='a trip to UK - Entropy'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/SRq7-UFuHNI/AAAAAAAAAJk/f6WNNkiam6M/s72-c/DSCN0050.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-4784226582381227694</id><published>2008-11-09T14:49:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T11:34:42.221+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='treason'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gunpowder'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='united kingdom'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guy fawkes'/><title type='text'>Gunpowder Treason</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/SRbqkLs4y6I/AAAAAAAAAJc/h2rbaqHABDE/s1600-h/guy_fawkes_portrait.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/SRbqkLs4y6I/AAAAAAAAAJc/h2rbaqHABDE/s200/guy_fawkes_portrait.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266654721593625506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And again, another gunpowder plot brewed under secret passages beneath the House of Lords, among courtisans of ancient keeps, where spirits and rage survive...&lt;br /&gt;The 5th of november is passed by now... Explosions, bonfires and fireworks filled with roars the cold and gloomy night of this land, England, which I am allowed to see now. Fires and bonfires, yes, but no government blew up.&lt;div&gt;British pals spent their night in celebration of this event, but I guess in this epoque nobody intends to give away his easy life for a handful of freedom. Nobody's going to plot treason against the Kingdom.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In Italy for the first time we assisted the big awakening of the youth generation. Shall it be the first and last time they party together against the government, fighting for their freedom? We'll see.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-4784226582381227694?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/4784226582381227694/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=4784226582381227694' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/4784226582381227694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/4784226582381227694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/11/gunpowder-treason.html' title='Gunpowder Treason'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/SRbqkLs4y6I/AAAAAAAAAJc/h2rbaqHABDE/s72-c/guy_fawkes_portrait.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-8433171103459542280</id><published>2008-10-31T22:18:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-10-31T22:32:23.052+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anglosassone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='politica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linguistica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gelmini'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rivolte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='televisione'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='italiani'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='133'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ribellione'/><title type='text'>Linguistics and Rebellions.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SQt4kLX-N2I/AAAAAAAAAMs/R2klDCW14kM/s1600-h/Senza-titolo-2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 192px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SQt4kLX-N2I/AAAAAAAAAMs/R2klDCW14kM/s200/Senza-titolo-2.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263433152436516706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Munin è un corvo che vola alto nel cielo, appartiene a questa terra. Per questo, non posso ignorare i fatti che sono successi in questi giorni in Italia, e a Macerata.&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;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Giovedì 23&lt;/span&gt;: seconda assemblea generale. Riempiamo l'aula assegnataci e così ci spostiamo nel porticato. Molti discorsi, il mio primo discorso alla folla, scambio di contatti. Successo. ORganizziamo un sit-in di fronte al rettorato per martedì.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Martedì 28:&lt;/span&gt; sit-in di fronte al rettorato mentre il senato accademico si riunisce. E' uno stand-in perché siamo veramente tanti. Il senato è spaventato dalla nostra presenza ed attende. Entriamo nell'edificio e rempiamo la scalinata e le sale, appendiamo il nostro striscione "non paghiamo noi la vostra crisi".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Poi ce ne andiamo. Osservati da una manipolo di Azione Universitaria e Obiettivo studenti (ergo CL) marciamo in gran numero. Questo è il momento che gli organizzatori aspettavano: usando la forza dei numeri, la marcia ci porta a pochi metra di distanza verso una classe vuota che riempiamo. Sembra spontaneo anche se non lo è.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Altri discorsi, altre decisioni. Una mia amica, con la sua linea poco indulgente non è applaudita dal pubblico - a differenza di tutti gli altri interventi che sono accompagnati da scrosci di applausi e urla.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Una votazione molto demagogica sull'occupazione, fatta valutando il rumore degli applausi. Anche se siamo ben lontani dall'unanimità.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Il preside di scienze della formazione viene a convincerci di uscire dall'aula. Fallisce. Passo la nottata dentro. Il rettore ci denuncia ufficialmente alla polizia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mercoledì 29&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;10:00&lt;/span&gt; - riunione con studenti, professori, ricercatori, tutti tranne il rettore.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;15:0&lt;/span&gt;0 - Lezione all'aria aperta: non ci sono fondi? impareremo nelle piazze! Una magnifica lezione sulla 133 e sulle basi della democrazia e la sua caduta.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;17:00&lt;/span&gt; - Assemblea a Palazzo Ugolini per Lettere e Filosofia. Ottimi discorsi da professori e studenti, buona partecipazione.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;19:00&lt;/span&gt; - per qualche ragione molti che erano a Palazzo Ugolini non ci seguono qua. Ancora discorsi, un gran cartellone con gli articoli della legge che stiamo combattendo, per opporci alla disinformazione. Tutto sembra egualitario, trasparente.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tolta la parola ad un paio di persone. Crisi della democrazia interna. Si dichiara la "notte bianca contro la Gelmini. In breve una festa reggae con il DJ, le canne, e la finanza in incognito. Me ne vado deluso e solo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Questa è solo un breve, troppo breve riassunto.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Come mai questo paese è caduto così in basso? Perché tagliamo i fondi alla cultura e li aumentiamo all'esercito? Perché squade neo-naziste (o neo-cretine, per quello che conta) possono picchiare gli studenti, mentre la polizia guarda e ride? &lt;a href="http://www.repubblica.it/2008/10/sezioni/scuola_e_universita/servizi/scuola-2009-4/camion-spranghe/camion-spranghe.html"&gt;Leggere per credere.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E perché non mi suona nuovo, visto la storia del nostro paese?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sarebbe lungo discutere come tutto ciò è accaduto nel nostro paese, specialmente confrontandosi con persone ancora incastrate in etichette politiche.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tuttavia il professore Mercoledì ha dato delle interessanti cause per la caduta della democrazia:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;- Globalizzazione&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Complessità della società&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Crisi della Comunicazione&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Globalizzazione &lt;/span&gt;è una parola molto generica e non mi piace. E' sbandierata in maniera negativa ma significa anche tante cose buone.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E' chiaro tuttavia che decadi fa, l'economia di un paese dipendeva dalle sue risorse naturali e come venivano usate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Oggi dipende molto di più da quello che gli &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;altri &lt;/span&gt;hanno. E quanto costa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Chiaramente la politica interna ha meno potere di quanto ne aveva prima.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Società complessa&lt;/span&gt;: oggi più persone si ritengono parte di una minoranza di quelle che si ritengono parte della maggioranza.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Migrazioni, religioni, iddeali sono stati mescolati, senza però creare sempre tolleranza.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Se "Tanto tempo fa" eravamo tutti italiani - o &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;qualcosiani&lt;/span&gt;, per quello che importa - e contadini, ora ci uccidiamo l'un l'altro perché siamo italiani, rumeni, emo, nazi, punk eccetera.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nessuno rispetta le minoranze, come gli omosessuali, pochi sembrano capire come la società funziona, richiamandosi ad anacronistici ideali cristiani o di "&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;legge del più forte&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Stiamo usando le minoranze come capri espiatori.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ma le minoranze si posso arrabbiare, e possono imparare a costruire le bombe.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Crisi della comunicazione&lt;/span&gt;: come aspirante linguista, devo dare un'ampio spazio a questo argomento. Per questo il post si chiama "&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Linguistics and Rebellion"&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Abbiamo la concezione errata che la gente nel passato fosse brutta e stupida. Non erano più stupidi di quanto lo siamo ora.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Quando studiavo &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;l'antico &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;anglosassone&lt;/span&gt;, ho scoperto parole che non potevano essere tradotte in inglese moderno - né in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;italiano&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Parole che parlavano delle sfumature di esistenza, che rappresentavano esseri che strisciano tra il piano reale e quello dei fantasmi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Creature e sensazioni che possono essere difficilmente descritte. Come &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"dawn-sorrow&lt;/span&gt;".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;La gente parlava così nei tempi andati. Alcune di quelle parole non potevo tradurre, ma le potevo sentire dentro di me. Alcune no, ed ho sentito di aver perso una parte di anima che i miei antenati avevano.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Con quelle parole forse riuscivano a capire gli &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;animali &lt;/span&gt;(in senso metaforico) e parlare ai loro dei. Le nostre lingue hanno perso tutto ciò. Le nostre anime l'hanno perso.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sarò un naturalista, ma non un "antiquario", che crede che tutti i problemi vengano dalla nostra società e che nel medioevo non ne avessero.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Non è vero. Oggi l'alfabetismo è più alto che nel passato. Punto.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nondimeno, credo che le lingue siano collassate nel tempo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In Italia ci crediamo al sicuro da ciò: siamo discendenti dei latini, della gente del &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"Sermo Maiorum"&lt;/span&gt; e dei "c&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;reatori della cultur&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt;" (dimenticandoci dei greci).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ma siamo dentro a questo crollo come tutti gli altri.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;L'italiano moderno ha tempi verbali complicati. Ma quanti, tra voi, li usano regolarmente?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;La linguistica è descrittiva; non nascondiamoci dietro ai libri: la lingua è quello che diciamo, ed abbiamo perso il congiuntivo! Ed il passato remoto!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E perché devo sempre mettere una foto nei miei post per destare un minimo di interesse?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Abbiamo ancora tutte quelle parole dal latino che ci fanno sentire intelligienti: &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"fisiologico, transitorio, imperscrutabile, ineluttabile&lt;/span&gt; (**** perdonami, non mi riferisco a te!)".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tutte queste parole sono sempre usate nel contesto sbagliato, per confondere le cose, senza significato ma di abbellimento a parole brutte, come "guerra".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Fate un'indagine seria sul linguaggio televisivo e ve ne renderete conto. Quando un linguaggio perde la sua capcità di trasmettere messaggio, La lingua è morta.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Essendo la lingua la più importante interazione tra esseri umani, se la perdiamo, torniamo alle caverne.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;La lingua si sta comprimendo. Ancora una volta, guardate la TV. Interviste che una volta in radio duravano 5 minuti, oggi durano 30 secondi sul TG.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;La lingua è più lenta della sua evoluzione, quindi con questa compressione, parte del messaggio viene distrutto. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Perso&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Quello che poteva essere un discorso, ora è uno &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;slogan&lt;/span&gt;. Uno slogan non richiede ragionamento. A uno slogan si può opporre solo un &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;vaffanculo &lt;/span&gt;o la &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;violenza&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Parliamo sopra gli altri, interrompiamo -&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt; se questa non è la prassi in Finlandia ancora, chiaramente lo è qua&lt;/span&gt; - perdendo quindi lo scambio, perdendo il significato.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;La caduta della democrazia può solo essere accompagnata dalla caduta della libertà di parola, vero?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Qualcuno disse che urlare, interrompere, litigare è vitalità. Non lo è. Negare a qualcuno il suo tempo per parlare è dittatura. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dittatura &lt;/span&gt;è &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;morte&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A tutti voi: Salvatevi, salvate le vostre lingue! Prendetevi tempo per parlare! Non usate etichette per riferirvi a cose, spiegatevi senza urlare slogan!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-8433171103459542280?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/8433171103459542280/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=8433171103459542280' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8433171103459542280'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8433171103459542280'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/10/linguistics-and-rebellions_31.html' title='Linguistics and Rebellions.'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SQt4kLX-N2I/AAAAAAAAAMs/R2klDCW14kM/s72-c/Senza-titolo-2.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-3149434871351636191</id><published>2008-10-31T20:11:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-10-31T22:18:11.250+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='squat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='linguistics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crisis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='runes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='squatter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rebellion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='languages'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sbotto silezioso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='globalization'/><title type='text'>Linguistics and Rebellions</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SQtZ_SwOH9I/AAAAAAAAAMk/mev0ps7mxrU/s1600-h/Runestone_Skansen.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SQtZ_SwOH9I/AAAAAAAAAMk/mev0ps7mxrU/s200/Runestone_Skansen.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263399533413277650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Munin may be a crow flying high in the sky, but he is still a creature of this earth. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I cannot avoid to witness what happened these days in Italy, and describe how did I take part in these wordly matters.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I could write a brief summary of what happened.&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;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Thursday 23rd&lt;/span&gt;: second general assembly. We overcrowd the classroom and so we move outside. Many speeches, my first speech, exchange of contacts, freedom of thought. Success. We organize a sit-in for tuesday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tuesday 28th&lt;/span&gt;: sit-in in front of the presidency while the Accademy Senate is reuniting. It is a stand-in for we are in great number. The senate is scared by our presence outside and waits to begin. We enter the building and overcrowd the stairs and halls, hanging our banners with the motto "We don't pay your crisis".*&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Then we leave. Stared by a bunch of rightwings and catholics, we march in great numbers. This is the moment the organizers have been waiting for; using the strength of numbers, the march brings us a few meters later to an empty classroom that we fill. It looked spontaneous but it was not.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;More speeches, more decisions. A friend of mine, with her not-self-indulgent line is not clapped by the audience - all the other speeches were usually accompanied by exaggerate applauses and banging on tables.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The most demagogic vote: "Do you want to squat this place?". The shouting and banging on the tables in taken as a unanimous agreement; though I saw that for every person shouting there was one smiling or clearly disapproving. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A teacher is sent there to convince us to evacuate the room. He fails. I spend the night inside; the "rettore", the big chief of university, calls the police. They didn't come.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Wednesday 29th&lt;/span&gt;: Morning reunion, with teachers, researchers, students, everybody but the Rettore.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;15:00&lt;/span&gt; Open air lecture: we don't have funds? well, we'll learn on the squares! A wonderful lecture on the 133 law, the theory of democracy, the fall of democracy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;17:00&lt;/span&gt; Assembly at Palazzo Ugolini with teachers and students of Filosofia, Lettere, Lingue, Storia. Good words from the teachers, who denounce how this society is trying to avoid falling using scapegoats. The positive assembly has to be cut short: a mass reunion comes!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;19:00&lt;/span&gt; For some reason, though we marched allthogether, many many people who were in Palazzo Ugolini get lost and won't come to Scienze della Comunicazione.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;More speeches, a big panel with the articles of the law 133 that we are fighting against - to fight disinformation. Everything seems crystal clear, equal and free. We share drinks and food.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Then it happens. A tall man with a stylish hat, who has been to almost all the events, takes the mic. He proposes, instead of another squatting of the same space, that is illegal...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;He is interrupted. Angry shouts from the "leaders" - the lads and lass that have been more or less leading the whole thing, without ever calling themselves leaders - shout at him, surround him, until he resings the mic and exits the assembly.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;With my friends I leave the assembly to eat. There is another "vote". A party against the law is decreed by the leaders. Few people are there squatting, but many come from the streets - we occupied without even closing doors... - looking for "the party". A DJ comes, with speakers and vinyls and everything. Everybody smokes weed, everybody. But not even alltogether.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I know that feasting is important as politics, that after the battle soldiers need to meet and relax around the fire. But this was different. It wasn't for our students. It was like the nearest disco, with drinks, with pushers, people from outside, not students, friends using the classroom as a bar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Angry and disappointed, I go back home, alone.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is very briefly what happened. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;How come this country has fallen so down? How comes that extreme right-wing squads are allowed to beat up students on the streets, while the police watches and laughs?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And why this is nothing new, for those who studied italian history?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It would be long to discuss the fall of this country, especially for those who aren't keen on its history.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The teacher on Wednesday said that the fall of our democracy is dependant on these three main causes:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;- Globalisation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;- Crisis of communication&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;- Complexity of our society&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Globalisation &lt;/span&gt;is a generic word and I don't like it much. But it is clear that, if decades ago, the economy of a country was about its natural resources and how they were used,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;nowadays it is much more about what the &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;others&lt;/span&gt; have. And how much does it cost. Clearly internal politics has less powere than before and little awareness.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Complex society:&lt;/span&gt; nowadays more people believe themselves to be minorities, than in the "mainstream". Migrations, religions, ideals mixed, without always bringing tolerance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If "once upon a time" we were all italians - or &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;somethingelsians&lt;/span&gt;, for what matters - and peasants, now we slaughter each other because we are italians, rumenians, emo, nazi, punk and soforth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nobody seems to respect minorities, such as homosexuals, few seems to understand how our society works, and notice that we are just using minorities as scapegoats.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But minorities get very angry, and they may know how to build bombs. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Crisis of communication&lt;/span&gt;: as a wannabe-linguist, I have to give a major space to this subject. And this is why the name of this post is&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Linguistics and Rebellion.&lt;/span&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;We have the misconception that people in old times were ugly and stupid. They were not more stupid than we are.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When studying old english, I came to know words, that couldn't be translated in modern english. Words that were different shades of existence, that represented beings&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;that crawl between reality and the realm of &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ghosts&lt;/span&gt;. Creatures and feelings that could be hardly described. Like "&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;dawn-sorrow".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;People used to speak like that in old times. Some of these words I could not translate, but feel inside myself. Some I couldn't, and I felt I had lost a part of my soul and heart that my ancestors had.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;With those words perhaps they could understand animals and talk to their &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;gods&lt;/span&gt;. Our languages have lost that. Our souls have lost that.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I may be a tree-hugger, but I am not one of those "relic-huggers", those who believe that all the problems come from our society, because in the middle ages they had none.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;That is just nonsense. Nowadays literacy and culture is more widespread than in the middle ages. Period.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nonetheless, I believe languages have been collapsing with time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In italy we believe we are safe from this: we are the descendant of the latins, the people of "Sermo Maiorum"* and the "creators of culture" (and thus forgetting about the greeks).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But we are inside this collapse as everybody else. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Modern italian still officially has complicated tenses. But how many, among you, actually uses them? Linguistics is &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;descriptive&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Let's not hide behind books: our language is what we say, and we have lost the &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;congiuntivo&lt;/span&gt;! And many past tenses. And why do I always need to put a picture in my posts to have people reading them?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But we still have all those latin-looking words that make us feel intelligient. Such as "&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;fisiologico, transitorio, imperscrutabile, ineluttabile&lt;/span&gt; (forgive me ***, I am not accusing you!)".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And these words are &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;always&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;used in the wrong context to make things unclear, to confuse, with no real meaning but &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;embellish &lt;/span&gt;other uglier words such as "war".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Make a serious research on TV speech and you will notice. when a language loses its capacity of giving a clear message, language is &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;dead&lt;/span&gt;. Being language the most important interaction among men, when we lose it, we are back to the caves.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Language is being compressed. Again, check TV. Interviews that used to last for 5 minutes on the radio, now last 30 seconds on TV.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Language is slower than this change though, so in this compression, part of the message was destroyed. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lost&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What could have been a speech, is now a &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;slogan&lt;/span&gt;. A slogan involves no thinking. A slogan can be opposed only by "fuck you" or violence.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We speak over each other, interrupting - if this may not be true in Finland yet, it clearly is here - thus losing contact, losing meaning.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The fall of democracy can only be accompanied by the fall of freedom of speech.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Somebody said once, that shouting, speaking, interrupting, arguing, is vital. It is not. Denying somebody his time to speak is dictatorship. Dictatorship is death.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our languages are collapsing, some slower, some faster. English is so deep in this collapse that some varietes and dialects of english barely make any distinction between past, present and future.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;All the adverbs became "Totally", awesome became awful.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To all of you: Save yourself, save your language! Take your time to speak! Do not use labels to refer to things, explain yourself without shouting slogans!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;English and Italian versions of this post are not exact translations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;* Sermo Maiorum= language of the ancients/masters&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-3149434871351636191?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/3149434871351636191/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=3149434871351636191' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3149434871351636191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3149434871351636191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/10/linguistics-and-rebellions.html' title='Linguistics and Rebellions'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SQtZ_SwOH9I/AAAAAAAAAMk/mev0ps7mxrU/s72-c/Runestone_Skansen.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-7324980856348356405</id><published>2008-10-25T13:49:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-25T14:18:26.529+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ciccione seminude e giamaicani che ti fermano ogni 5 minuti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pesto alla carbonella'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lappeenranta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beowulf and his midgets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='truzzi di merda'/><title type='text'>Memoirs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SQMIcolNT9I/AAAAAAAAAMc/LU_sWjipNGM/s1600-h/IMG_3373.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SQMIcolNT9I/AAAAAAAAAMc/LU_sWjipNGM/s200/IMG_3373.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261058077721710546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;22-6-08&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Weather: Rain&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Midsummer went by. We missed the &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;kokko &lt;/span&gt;(bonfire), we came too late, but we had great fun.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We played &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;kroketti &lt;/span&gt;(croquet) on a "very heavy metal track" designed by Jaakko, and later on, an epic game of Carcassonne. We ate more meat than socially acceptable. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We failed our bets on how many people would drown (see previous post) since the bad weather discouraged people from boating and so only one man actually drowned&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There was no complete darkness during the night. Only a dark dark light and a blue sky. The moon was so big I thought it was a big balloon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This morning we left for Lappeenranta, where we'll sleep at Henna's godmother's.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We watched "number 23" with Ville; it's rather creepy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;26-6-08&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;Weather: crazy&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lappeenranta is much nicer than the other finnish cities, which are usually functional but ugly as hell.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lappeenranta has three nice churces, especially the orthodox one: tiny but filled with gold and treasures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This country is completely queer. Bunnies frolic freely even in the capital and squirrels are all around. People &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;collect &lt;/span&gt;used cans and bottles from the street and recycle them, so they get some cash. The sun shines at night during the summer, while in the winter it's rarely seen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lakes are everywhere; I would like to have a boat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;28-6-08&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;weather: "hot", 22+&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Qua in Finlandia sono tornato in quel mondo fatto di incomprensione, comunicazione interrotta, parole spezzate e larghi sorrisi come unico medium interculturale. E' un mondo diverso e difficile.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In Irlanda potevo avere lunghe discussioni con chiunque. Il problema erano ogni tanto le parole troppo difficili; qua il gergo di ogni giorno è una sfida. Le persone vivono nel falso credo che la lingua sia il più semplice tramite di comunicazione, ed essa sia &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;solo &lt;/span&gt;un modo per trasmettere fatti, informazioni. Invece, l'atto comunicativo stesso è un fatto, talvolta potente, talvolta creatore di fatti.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are three keys to enter a society; language is one of them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2-7-08&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;weather: warm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Se per sopravvivere è necessario muoversi, allora io vivrò a lungo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dopo una settimana a Lappeenranta ho passato una notte a Lahti. La giornata dopo -ieri- a sbronzarsi a casa dei genitori di Mikko. Lì ho passato la notte ed ora sono ad Helsinki. Lo zaino è sempre più vuoto, si svuota di tutto il superfluo, mentre la mente si riempie di novità. Se volevo girare il mondo, ci sto riuscendo. Non passo due giorni nello stesso luogo. Nulla è facile come lo era in Irlanda. Ma quella nazione è passata, la storia scritta. Passerà ancora molto tempo prima che io vi ritorni ancora.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;L'estate finlandese regala emozioni forti, a differenza dell'inverno spento. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-7324980856348356405?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/7324980856348356405/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=7324980856348356405' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7324980856348356405'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7324980856348356405'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/10/22-6-08-weather-rain-midsummer-went-by.html' title='Memoirs'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SQMIcolNT9I/AAAAAAAAAMc/LU_sWjipNGM/s72-c/IMG_3373.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-2206346606519770979</id><published>2008-10-14T15:09:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-19T14:06:03.123+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coleslaw tastes horrible'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lisbon treaty'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suomi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rubber chicken'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><title type='text'>Many days after: about Finland</title><content type='html'>Here we go with more written memories from months ago:&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Few days before 14-06-08 - Weather:COLD!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ireland today voted NO to Lisbon treaty. They changed history. Barely a million of votig Irishmen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now EU is on a crisis they say. Europe, where shall you go? Incapable yet of taking decisive action, strong decisions that we may need. Politics is nasty.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yesterday I've been to Näsijärvi, which is a local lake surrounded by a forest (tottakai!).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SPWw3KlhH0I/AAAAAAAAAMU/6Y4ugw9arKA/s200/128_4898.JPG" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257302601805930306" /&gt;&lt;div&gt; We went there between 10-11PM and it was bright. This finnish summer is incredible; and cold, right now. It has been raining every day since my arrival, after a "hot spell". It was awesome. The lake is very wide, the forest looks pretty much a Alpine forest, though with taller birches and wider landscape. This country is still weird though. With Ireland it was a matter of days and people. After I explored Dublin a bit everything became familiar. I could understand people speaking. Now everything is so foreign it looks like another planet. Time goes by. If the warm weather comes back...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;14-6-08 | Weather: Warm&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Most of Finns live in unattractive block of flats, usually grey; from the inside though, the houses are of the highest comfort.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Finnish breakfast is weird. The custom often mixes typical products - cheese, smoked ham... - with more exotic stuff such as tropical fruit, youghurt, cucumbers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There is no way to stop the night sun to enter the room, so I had to get used to sleep with light outside and inside. Nonetheless, I love the never-ending days, in which the time of the day almost doesn't matter. Take a walk at 9AM or 10PM, it's the same.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;20-6-08 Weather: warm/rain&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Today I biked to the Vesijärvi lake. It means "waterlake" for no other word could reflect its brightness and clean water... in past times. Now it's black.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It's a nice spot though. Biking here is easier than in Italy, and nicer. Yesterday it was "normaali suomen kesä" (I beg your pardon if I made grammar mistakes) i.e. rain all day. We went to the shop to pile a few goods for Juhannus. Tomorrow happens to be midsummer: the longest day of the year. I find it a funny day to celebrate and be happy: after tomorrow, every day will be shorter. Besides, many people's Juhannus ends with little happiness: a bulk of guys die throughout Dinland for drowning, often by boating right after drinking.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Two milions kgs of sausages are bought by Finns only for midsummer, and there are only 5.4 millions people in the whole country. Make your own "average pro-capite meat" calculations. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tomorrow is a special day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To be continued.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now I hope somebody notice the nice "envelope pattern" in my latest posts&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Munin says Hi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-2206346606519770979?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/2206346606519770979/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=2206346606519770979' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2206346606519770979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2206346606519770979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/10/many-days-after-about-finland.html' title='Many days after: about Finland'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SPWw3KlhH0I/AAAAAAAAAMU/6Y4ugw9arKA/s72-c/128_4898.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-2682394628187448577</id><published>2008-10-05T10:53:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-05T11:02:43.784+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lonely beasts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fakiu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='play'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='marmellata di cipolle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cocksucker'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scavenger'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gaming'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sbotto silezioso'/><title type='text'>The meaning of life - gaming part II</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Me and gaming - top 5 boring stories&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Being cynical, I must say, the first impression I got when I entered the world of gaming was that of an immense desert.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Very early in my childhood, I had people to play with: my parents, my brother, some friends, maybe at school. Soon after though, at lightspeed, I found myself alone. My parents had more important things to do, my brother grew up - and being an elder brother... - and friends... well, I didn't have many friends at school, and all of them spent their time by:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A - running after girls&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;B - harassing girls&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;C - beating up somebody&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;D - playing football&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Me, I don't like football, nor any other team sports. And table games require a long time; very unfit to our modern time, fast time. Therefore, I concentrated myself on reading, computer games, and other stuff.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I embraced again the world gaming with other people only when I had already fourteen years and more on my back....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To be continued&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-2682394628187448577?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/2682394628187448577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=2682394628187448577' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2682394628187448577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2682394628187448577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/10/meaning-of-life-gaming-part-ii.html' title='The meaning of life - gaming part II'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-5409617244264429286</id><published>2008-09-21T15:51:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-15T10:55:27.292+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='funghi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pfilzen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mushrooms'/><title type='text'>Parentesi</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SNZSXANXz_I/AAAAAAAAAL8/DpCm3dQNrKc/s1600-h/mushroom.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SNZSXANXz_I/AAAAAAAAAL8/DpCm3dQNrKc/s200/mushroom.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248472970893447154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SNZSXVIseOI/AAAAAAAAAME/Qo9EMKyPMzA/s1600-h/mushrooms.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SNZSXVIseOI/AAAAAAAAAME/Qo9EMKyPMzA/s200/mushrooms.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248472976510974178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SNZSXrXVUZI/AAAAAAAAAMM/VM_zs2Xpuf0/s1600-h/super-mario-mushroom-bank.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SNZSXrXVUZI/AAAAAAAAAMM/VM_zs2Xpuf0/s200/super-mario-mushroom-bank.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248472982477951378" border="0" /&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;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love mushrooms. Mushrooms are fun. They are a meme, they are deeply rooted in our imagination. Super Mario in mushroomland; the Peyote; Germanic Berserkr using Amanita Muscaria; the saying "to grow up as mushrooms"; and the smurfs live inside mushrooms!&lt;br /&gt;Mushrooms aren't even a plant, no, not a vegetable. They are not in the animal nor plant kingdom. They are just mushrooms . They are mostly water, but still something living, something which is not water. And indeed they can be very good to eat, or very nasty and deadly. They are soft, have funny shape, with those big hats.&lt;br /&gt;That's it. This post is completely pointless, nonetheless i wanted to write it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-5409617244264429286?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/5409617244264429286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=5409617244264429286' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5409617244264429286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5409617244264429286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/09/parentesi.html' title='Parentesi'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SNZSXANXz_I/AAAAAAAAAL8/DpCm3dQNrKc/s72-c/mushroom.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-1934542479918192821</id><published>2008-09-18T20:23:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-19T15:48:51.719+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='games'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='computers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='movies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='carcassonne'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='donne quasi completamente nude ma non proprio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='culo gratis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='board games'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='roleplay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='D&apos;n&apos;D'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pissi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nerd'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='geek'/><title type='text'>The meaning of life - Gaming</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SNOa63oCWEI/AAAAAAAAALk/GSPT6OmT_a4/s1600-h/elmburlhastings.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SNOa63oCWEI/AAAAAAAAALk/GSPT6OmT_a4/s200/elmburlhastings.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247708326971725890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gaming has probably nothing to do with the meaning of life, or perhaps it's its real kernel. By the way, today I will not publish more of my finnish diaries, but write about... well, gaming, I guess you understood by now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;HOW, WHEN AND WHY DID I START GAMING&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not a veteran, but I've been gaming for... 20 years?&lt;br /&gt;I guess I figured out the concept of "playing" at, perhaps, 10-12 months after my birth, and I never stopped thereafter.&lt;br /&gt;As a kid, I played with parents, with my brother and occasionally (rarely) with friends. But playing and gaming are different things. When have I started gaming? I cannot be sure what came first, wether the "adventures" with my brother, "Space Quest I", or Monopoly, but indeed very early. And why? I am strong and healthy (sort of) and I like hiking, climbing, swimming... no sports, but the normal stuff. Nonetheless, I admit that the mind gives me more pleasure than the body, and what better than games to stir the mind?&lt;br /&gt;Backgammon is said to be 5000 years old, and therefore gaming goes along with civilization. Gaming is filling your afternoons with something different than hunting or mating or sleeping. Perhaps gaming is the most human thing.&lt;br /&gt;In my 20 years  of gaming, many things have changed. I did not notice at the time, but they happened indeed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BAD POINTLESS SUMMARY ON THE HISTORY OF GAMING&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before the great war gaming was chess, cards, gambling, Go, Backgammon.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Good stuff indeed, but games of chance and randomness, games for gambling, games for spare time.&lt;br /&gt;After the war, we created the nerd. And nerds are the creators of many things we now have: Wizard of the Coast, Lord of the Rings, Microsoft, Linux, File Sharing, Google. But not only: nerds created gaming as "lifestyle".&lt;br /&gt;Now it's 1974 and Gary Gygax (hope you are in a heavenly dimension, buddy) and Dave Arneson (the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;other one&lt;/span&gt; everybody always forgets) created Dungeons&amp;amp;Dragons. &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SNOq5h5Ch_I/AAAAAAAAALs/Z1Ju83tG0jk/s1600-h/270px-D%26D_logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SNOq5h5Ch_I/AAAAAAAAALs/Z1Ju83tG0jk/s200/270px-D%26D_logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247725896143636466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;They created the Roleplaygame. And the world... didn't change, but geeks did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ROLEPLAY I.E. MENTAL HOSPITAL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Many people ask me what a Role Play game actually is. I believe it is the highest accomplishment of humam mind abstraction. Abstract art or poetry are bullshit, compared to RPGs; Philosophy... you don't want me to talk about philosophy now, do you?&lt;br /&gt;RPGs are about &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;imagining &lt;/span&gt;that you are a &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;character that you are not&lt;/span&gt;, and &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;imagining &lt;/span&gt;this character in a &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;world that does not exist&lt;/span&gt;, not painted, nor filmed, and in this lands, he fights &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;creatures that do no exist&lt;/span&gt; and talks to &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;people that do not exist&lt;/span&gt;, to save the &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;world that does not exist&lt;/span&gt;, with clearly &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;unreal weapons&lt;/span&gt; or &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;spells&lt;/span&gt;. And this makes you &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;happy&lt;/span&gt;. Now, is this &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;mental&lt;/span&gt;? sure it is.&lt;br /&gt;You might think that afterwards, gaming got even better, evolved, or just stayed as it is. I think it moved backwards. I realized it when, yesterday, I've seen D&amp;amp;D accessories named "D&amp;amp;D - miniature game"&lt;br /&gt;Miniature game? What the fuck? Yes, miniatures and cards nowadays sell more than "&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;imaginary worlds&lt;/span&gt;" and therefore, back we go.&lt;br /&gt;What do gamers have today more than yesterday? More stuff, but not more spirit.&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday there was Monopoly and Risk, today there is Monopoly, Risk, Carcassonne,&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SNOq54-KgsI/AAAAAAAAAL0/HX4A5DF97ao/s1600-h/carcassonne.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SNOq54-KgsI/AAAAAAAAAL0/HX4A5DF97ao/s200/carcassonne.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247725902339146434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Agricola, War of the ring.... etc.&lt;br /&gt;And this is great. There is an entire world for gamers, for geeks. Board games, RPGs, Computer Games. All kind of games. And this is great. But I cannot stop thinking, that geeks have been transformed, from "socially different" to a commercial target. They analized geeks, understoof how they work and created something they can buy. Like Emos, Punks, Rappers etc.&lt;br /&gt;And are they wrong? Geeks used to read books, to think more than act, to speak like Oxford teachers and such. Nowadays in geek stores I see only school kids and pre-adolescents with Magic cards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ME AND GAMING = A 100% BORING STORY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, me and gaming. As I said, I've been in gaming for a while. What can I tell?&lt;br /&gt;First of all, lack of gamers. When my parents became too busy for board games, I had only my brother. Then he became too old and I had to drop board gaming. I had been computer gaming since I was very little. Am I a very good gamer now? Indeed, I am not. I quite suck at games usually. I like the feeling they give me, I don't like the winning &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;per se&lt;/span&gt;. I like the stories. Yes, for me computer games are essentialy movies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And computer games were, at the beginning, activity oriented: they were based on doing something, i.e. driving a car or shooting monster. They were hard, but fun.&lt;br /&gt;Then PC games evolved, and the trivial arcade, almost abstract ideas (is pong a simulation of tennis or an abstract game?) became, with the help of sound and image, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;simulations&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;I don't have memory enough to describe the history of computer games, but when the internet came, I got randomly involved in RPG by Forums. That changed quite a couple of things....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you in the next episode!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;In the pictures: chess, D&amp;amp;D logo, Carcassonne board game&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-1934542479918192821?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/1934542479918192821/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=1934542479918192821' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1934542479918192821'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1934542479918192821'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/09/meaning-of-life-gaming.html' title='The meaning of life - Gaming'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SNOa63oCWEI/AAAAAAAAALk/GSPT6OmT_a4/s72-c/elmburlhastings.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-2821815248372518353</id><published>2008-09-16T16:17:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-16T16:49:58.120+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Memories from the repository</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SM_HXtpD2XI/AAAAAAAAALU/W60ZSsnlZo4/s1600-h/54DisentagrationPersistenceOfMemory.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SM_HXtpD2XI/AAAAAAAAALU/W60ZSsnlZo4/s200/54DisentagrationPersistenceOfMemory.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246631301112650098" border="0" /&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;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi again, after a long time!&lt;br /&gt;After Finland, I "enjoyed" Italy with my beloved foreigner. I may describe Italy to you all, but this is not my task. I may tell you the feelings of such foreigner, as far as I know, but that is not my tasks. I may express my own feelings, but this is not your business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As I said in other posts, when I don't post I'm not being lazy: I just prepare bigger posts! And so I'm going to "publish" the memories, i.e. publish here what I wrote on paper during my stay in Finland. Now plug you headphones and play Korpiklaani full volume, we're going back to the first day I left for the land of lakes....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10-06-08&lt;br /&gt;Leaving is always the same. A restless night, an early morning, and with the most casual attitude, you say farewell. The day before is a singular one also. It's such a random day. Usually with good weather, a nice afternoon, a wonderful dinner. A "goodnight", something you forgot to do, and, as an everyday "bye" you say farewell; be it for a week, a month or forever.&lt;br /&gt;That's leaving. Leaving is mystic, it's a religion. [...]&lt;br /&gt;I had a weird dream. I left my old house in Dublin, and I brought with me everything: pieces of my closet, tables...&lt;br /&gt;But something (as my Lego collection :| ) I couldn't bring with me. Back to Italy though I discovered that a weird warp portal was in the room upstairs, so that objects could be transferred from Osimo to Dublin effortlessly. [...] I can find nothing to feed the sense of loss, nothing to replace the Emerald. [...] Leaving is forgiving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11-6-08&lt;br /&gt;Qualche volta ti viene voglia di non fermarti, di prendere aereo su aereo e continuare a viaggiare.&lt;br /&gt;[translation] Sometimes you want to go on, not stopping, to take the next airplane and keep on travelling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SM_HX67incI/AAAAAAAAALc/uIrjwmnZmtI/s1600-h/DSC00093.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SM_HX67incI/AAAAAAAAALc/uIrjwmnZmtI/s200/DSC00093.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246631304679824834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;14-6&lt;br /&gt;I've been in Finland fro three days now. The world is so small sometimes. I've run into a small italian food shop. Inside it, nobody but a chubby, bald italian with rough, generous hands. He's been living in finland for 6 years now, with his finnish wife...&lt;br /&gt;He made me nice discounts, offered us a coffee. It's hard to make a living here, he says. Well, no wonder. Italians can't really stand the cold, the silence... finns have bidet though.&lt;br /&gt;And then I even saw Joni, the finn from UCD. I couldn't believe it. Dublin is the entire world, isn't it?&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes in the evening I think I'll go out with Christian, or early in the morning I think about meeting Alice and Giorgia smoking in the courtyard. I still imagine to see kate waving at me through windows. That world is no more. Is it so difficult to settle down in this country, so hard to change homeland? Andrea did. He was alone, but smart and with a clear aim. Maß und Ziel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20-6-08&lt;br /&gt;In this long time abroad I've stopped writing and playing. Producing. I've been dull to the world but not to myself. I've produced myself. I'm increased, not in size but in capacity. My own world expanded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is much more! It will come, with time...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-2821815248372518353?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/2821815248372518353/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=2821815248372518353' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2821815248372518353'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2821815248372518353'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/09/paperback-from-repository.html' title='Memories from the repository'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SM_HXtpD2XI/AAAAAAAAALU/W60ZSsnlZo4/s72-c/54DisentagrationPersistenceOfMemory.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-679349528369419472</id><published>2008-09-07T11:44:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-07T12:36:38.947+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Journey</title><content type='html'>I made a journey, a most wonderful one, lasted one week.&lt;br /&gt;But for me it was a lifetime, a life within life.&lt;br /&gt;I was surprised from Frankfurt, I love that city!&lt;br /&gt;I was again in Ulm and I loved it.&lt;br /&gt;I was in Augsburg and Innsbruck and... well, not sure I loved them completely.&lt;br /&gt;Then I was near Trento, in the dolomites, at the Taramelli hut.&lt;br /&gt;Then I was back home, and I was so happy and content, that it gave me an energy pump for the life to come next.&lt;br /&gt;That will be really boring, non-exciting. Especially compared to what I've seen and what I've done in the last year. Not to mention the fact that in other projection I could have been abroad.&lt;br /&gt;Well, that's life and my decision. I belong to a place and I belong to people. No place belongs to me nor people do. Besides that, life is a continuous challenge even if you play at home. Working on ourselves is important. If we just focus on the outer world we miss the delights of our soul, we miss to fix the troubles of our soul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note: Innsbruck was very inspiring at night, in the inner city, but the rest of the city is a bit grey. Besides, people are really kind!&lt;br /&gt;Ah yeah, I didn't mention, I traveled on my own. I met people, special people, but I traveled on my own. And I was looking for that, I love it. Me and myself...&lt;br /&gt;I love to travel by train: you see the landscapes mutating, you understand the distances, and you can dig into history, imagining to live in fast forward the great migrations. Airplanes are maybe cheap, but they only bring you to a specific place, to the crowded places. With the train you can reach nearly everywhere. You can really say you're travelling.&lt;br /&gt;I traveled for 2100kilometers which only 700km were made by airplane.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I discovered a lot during this trip. I learned about myself, and about life. Traveling is the occasion to put yourself into challenge, or observe yourself from a different point of view. That way you improve yourself, your life. You understand things that are not visible when you live in the everyday life. That's the important part of traveling, besides the fun. Exploring new places and meeting new people is partially true: we can do that always. Just we don't when we are at home, and that's a great flaw, especially if we declare ourselves "international people".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-679349528369419472?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/679349528369419472/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=679349528369419472' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/679349528369419472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/679349528369419472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/09/journey.html' title='Journey'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-931845930564449097</id><published>2008-08-03T22:36:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-03T22:59:25.630+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sagra della sarda a scottadito'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ciccione seminude e giamaicani che ti fermano ogni 5 minuti'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='montemartre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='metro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kebabbari di merda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='turisti della domenica'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cinegri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paris'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nouvelle cuisine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='teatro'/><title type='text'>Paris</title><content type='html'>I've been for a workweek in Paris, for - easy to say - work.&lt;br /&gt;Work was great but tough, especially phisically, I came back home sick, but now I'm feeling better.&lt;br /&gt;I had some time to sightsee the city and as I did already 4 years ago I was puzzled by its romance. I love that city. The architecture is great everywhere in the innercity, there's no palace or building which is not tuned to the overall atmosphere.&lt;br /&gt;The suburbs are times worse. I've been in Saint Denis and Neully-Plaisance, two outer areas, served by metro. Two aspecta I have to outline about them is the uglyness of the streets and the multicultural component.&lt;br /&gt;The street are quite ugly as what concerns architecture and urban care. Some positive spotlights of course are churches.&lt;br /&gt;Paris is really multicultural, and I think the racial integration is better than any other places I've been to... I'm wondering if it's even better than american metropolis like New York, where there are still "niggers" ghettos as far as I know. There in Paris arabs, asian and africans live together with european frenchs, without - apparently - problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think I would never move to Paris even tho I liked the cosmopolitan way of living, the easy trekking with the metro, the events and occasions. I think I would likely move to a satellite town of Paris, a nice and good looking one, like I saw passing by by car.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I would like to discover more about smaller cities and towns of France. I've been once in Avignon and the nearby cities, but I can't recall many things. I should see them again under a different light.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I learnt french for 3 years at middle schools (that's to say: 11 to 14 years old) and I loved it, I was motivated and I was good in it. After so much time I didn't forget much and I was still able to conversate with french people. I'm fucking upset with my high school studied: I wasted 5 years with inadequate and unprepared teachers. I didn't learn a word of english (while I could have been a mothertongue speaker by now under different conditions), I wasn't taught math and phisics (like, instead, it was intended to be), and I had to relearn on my own at university (I learnt in a couple of years tons more than I didn't in 5 years), I learnt an unuseful latin, while I could be a good french speaker or even a german speaker (hate to say, things would have been different if I knew german). I don't remember anything of the literature and history studies which were just sticked to my mind for a few days after exams, the only thing I benefit from these fuckin'horrible 5 years is philosophy.&lt;br /&gt;Ok I'm going too far with this topic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So back to Paris: it's a pretty good place to spend some time, surely more than a tourist week...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-931845930564449097?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/931845930564449097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=931845930564449097' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/931845930564449097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/931845930564449097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/08/paris.html' title='Paris'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-6207427061827249499</id><published>2008-07-26T21:19:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-07-26T22:59:24.389+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The of Finland - The worst of Finland</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SIt-1X_CSzI/AAAAAAAAAHs/YPVBYuYkTc4/s1600-h/Ireland-Dublin-Molly-Malone.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SIt-1X_CSzI/AAAAAAAAAHs/YPVBYuYkTc4/s200/Ireland-Dublin-Molly-Malone.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227411247930166066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First of all, a piece of news: Henna isn't able to join Tampere University and will be back to Dublin. I have the feeling I'll se the eccentric Irish capital again soon.&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;Then, the few international readers may forgive me, I'll give my temporary evaluation of Finland - but in&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; Italian. The few non-english speakers who read this blog are anyways probably finnish.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Il meglio della Finlandia&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SIuBdk088jI/AAAAAAAAAH0/ZmoLDUuQK1g/s200/M%C3%B6kki_2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227414137595556402" /&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;L'estate:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I fiori sbocciano, il vento diventa tiepido ma non troppo caldo - come in italia. Le giornate sono cosí lunghe che si fondono l'una con l'altra: luce, luce! La notte é annientata, il cielo non é mai nero e cupo. Ogni ora é buona per uscire, mangiare, festeggiare, mai per dormire!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;L'estate é una poesia tiepida e accogliente, luminosa. D'estate una fresca birra Finlandese é il meglio, accompagnata da un festival musicale o dal semplice svago, il giaciere in una foresta o su un lago. Condurre una barca sulla sua morbida e splendere supeficie, camminare sotto antichi e magnifici alberi, sul grasso muschio. Guidar&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;e una bicicletta nelle sue pianure. I finlandesi, finalmente liberi del winter blues (ma non del grugno) si fiondano nei loro mökki e nelle saune a legna, in mezzo alle foreste.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bacche:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;D'estate vengono i grandiosi "marjat": le bacche. Fragole e lamponi ma anche i piú esotici lakkat, i lamponi artici, o lindonberries, cranberries, fragole selvatiche, more, mirtilli, ribes... in quantitá enormi, liberi per tutti da essere raccolti sul suolo pubblico e congelati, per essere gustati durante l'inverno.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Non dimenticheró mai la dolcezza dell'estate finlandese. Un capolavoro per coloro che hanno un cuore soffice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Laghi:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Il lago é una delle principali caratteristiche fisiche della Finlandia e un po' un centro spirituale della nazione. Sul lago si passeggia d'inverno, sul lago si va con le barche e si annega durante Juhannus, attorno al lago si fa il "kokko" (faló) e si mangia makkara. Dal lago si pesca e attorno al lago si fanno passeggiate. Non c'é nulla di meglio di una foresta riflessa sulla superficie di un lago.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Foreste:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;La Finlandia non é che un&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; grumo di piccole cittá e villaggi sparsi tra foreste e laghi. Certo, in Italia possiamo vantare tanti piccoli paesini sparsi, ma la struttura é diversa. In Italia abbiamo le grandi repubbliche marinare, le cittá industriali, i paesi di montagna. Anche i piú piccoli centri sono aggregati di origini medievali, sul picco di una collina per difendersi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I villaggi finlandesi sono uniti solo dal nome. Sono solo case di legno sparse casualmente pre una foresta. Non fatevi ingannare dagli enormi palazzi di Helsinki o Turku: al di fuori della cittá c'é sempre foresta.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Le foreste non sono distese di pini piantati dopo la deforestazione, o bassi, cattivi e impenetrabili fratte di arbusti e serpenti, ma nella maggior parte vecchie foreste, ampie e incredibili di abeti e betulle; atte&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;nzione perchè ci sono ancora alci, orsi, scoiattoli ed ogni animale! Ma anche funghi e frutti di bosco (vedi alla voce:bacche)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;La neve:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;L'inverno sará pure buio e freddo, ma che gioia andare con lo slittino! E la luce riflessa sulla neve, camminare SUL lago, bianca freschezza ovunque, dove correre, sciare o solo stare in casa a guardare i bianchi fiocchi...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Politica, welfare, riciclaggio:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tutti riciclano; se p&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;orti a riciclare lattine e bottiglie prendi soldi indietro; l'ambiente é protetto; lo stato da case a coloro che non ne hanno, e soldi ai disoccupato (24€ al giorno, mi dicono). C'é molta energia alternativa, i politici non sono corrotti fino all'osso. Molte cittá forniscono connessione Wireless gratis. Le strade sono sicure, le persone vivono tranquille; anche troppo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;La Musica:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I chitarristi finlandesi sono veloci, molto veloci. Ma non solo. Non c'é bisogno di essere mafiosi come gigi d'alessio o raccomandati come i gazzosa per suonare. Le band hanno i loro spazi, e nessuno ti dirá che sei un&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; cretino perché dopo i 20 anni invece di mettere su famiglia suoni.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Il Traffico:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Se vi piace guidare rilassati la Finlandia é il posto per voi. Su le cinture, frecce attivate e luci accese. Si rispettano i limiti e i semafori, nessuno ha troppa fretta, e comunque le strade non sono mai affollate. Un sogno per i viaggiatori.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;La libertá:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In Finlandia la chiesa conta nulla, anzi, ci si puó anche "disiscrivere". Puoi avere figli senza essere sposato, andartene di casa a 18 anni, convivere, sopravvivere, con persone di qualsiasi sesso ed é tutto abbastanza normale. Ma il natale con i tuoi!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Puoi ascoltare "la musica del diavolo" e va bene, girare vestito male, non importa. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Il Peggio della Finlandia:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SIuNHTniIwI/AAAAAAAAAH8/JBS_p-VwS3w/s200/finland_ugly.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227426949158281986" /&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;Architettura:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Le cittá finlandesi sono brutte. Ad eccezzione di qualche bella chiesa ed antico edificio a Lappeenranta, o il castello di Turku e Hämenlinna, la cittá é fatte di larghe strade e alti blocchi di cemento grigi. Sará perchè sono italiano, ma per me edifici storti, antichi, pieni di storia, diroccati, tondi, ovali, a casaccio e colorati sono la norma.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Alcohol:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Alko", i negozi monopolio dello stato per la vendita dell'alcool é il centro della vita finlandese. Senza una bottiglia di Kossu (38%) nell'armadio non si vive. Ci vuole almeno una birra dopo la sauna. Ai matrimoni si beve piú di quanto si mangia. Non sará come l'irlanda, ma la Finlandia é una nazione che ama la bottiglia: l'incubo di ogni donna finnica é il marito alcolizzato.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Metodo:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In Finlandia c'é un modo giusto per fare ogni cosa. Qui ogni cosa é efficace, grandi lavori fatti con il minimo sforzo e massimo rendimento, ogni cosa pulita e pronta all'uso. Ma quanto é divertente fare le cose a modo proprio, sprecando tempo ed energia?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Timidezza:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sará il winter blues, sará fisiologico, ma i Finlandesi troppo spesso nascondono il proprio mondo interiore, nel silenzio che caratterizza la nazione. Molti sono gioielli nascosti.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Considerate questa come una bozza. Ci sono tante altre cose in finlandia, belle e brutte, che mi verrano in mente solo con il tempo o che forse non sapró mai.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hail, Munin.&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 class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-6207427061827249499?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/6207427061827249499/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=6207427061827249499' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/6207427061827249499'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/6207427061827249499'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/07/of-finland-worst-of-finland.html' title='The of Finland - The worst of Finland'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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://bp0.blogger.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SIt-1X_CSzI/AAAAAAAAAHs/YPVBYuYkTc4/s72-c/Ireland-Dublin-Molly-Malone.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-6895626241314741076</id><published>2008-07-20T19:59:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-07-20T20:17:21.154+02:00</updated><title type='text'>the meaning of life - don't overdo</title><content type='html'>I planned and indeed started writing this post as quite philosophical, claiming that traveling for real - no turism -  is a good way to understand that what we take as eternal truths are nothing but a faded image of the world seen by a blind man from a tiny hole in a wall. This was going too far away though, and I'll keep it on paper, as I'm doing with much of the stuff. I may publish it all later on this blog.&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;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SIN_xCR9eNI/AAAAAAAAAHk/fOvSKulPrw0/s200/erasmo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225160473082427602" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; A CALL TO ARMS&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Being an ex-erasmus in not only about erasmus: I shall now answer to my call to arms, or two actually:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-I believe I'm going to subscribe as an "erasmus buddy"; what does this mean? I'll be in charge of a drunkard asshole foreign student coming to Macerata, and help him finding his way -to the pub- in this completely weird country.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- There's a contest for ex-erasmus students, which involves using movie, photos, text and basically anything to explain their experience. My photos have been sucky and I have no recording (or 'footage') therefore I'll try to join with my diary.&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/556085913567246114-6895626241314741076?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/6895626241314741076/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=6895626241314741076' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/6895626241314741076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/6895626241314741076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/07/meaning-of-life-dont-overdo.html' title='the meaning of life - don&apos;t overdo'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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://bp2.blogger.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SIN_xCR9eNI/AAAAAAAAAHk/fOvSKulPrw0/s72-c/erasmo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-524136324017806973</id><published>2008-07-20T10:28:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-07-20T11:55:03.855+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chicken salad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='migration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snufkin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finocchio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brodo vegetale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='old furniture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beowulf and his midgets'/><title type='text'>the meaning of life - hometown, homeland.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SIL3wIZaVCI/AAAAAAAAAHM/OtZofxiT9H8/s1600-h/snufkin06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SIL3wIZaVCI/AAAAAAAAAHM/OtZofxiT9H8/s200/snufkin06.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225010923963044898" /&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;The whole modern human society is based on one single basic mistake: that a man shall have only one home that he owns.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Therefore he shall protect his home, use and abuse it, and no one can enter it; thus he has to endure it if the winter is chilly or the summer too hot; thus comes that he shall expand it further; thus he shall buy, conquer, steal and hoard items and treasures, and keep them for himself; thus comes that upon his death his sons must bring forth this task.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Are swallows so foolish, after all?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SIL5xcXiWxI/AAAAAAAAAHU/RlIxCUkaiGA/s200/fenicotteri.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225013145527016210" /&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;Hail, Munin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-524136324017806973?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/524136324017806973/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=524136324017806973' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/524136324017806973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/524136324017806973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/07/meaning-of-life-hometown-homeland.html' title='the meaning of life - hometown, homeland.'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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://bp2.blogger.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SIL3wIZaVCI/AAAAAAAAAHM/OtZofxiT9H8/s72-c/snufkin06.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-5876973674962591569</id><published>2008-07-17T19:19:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2008-07-17T20:32:14.732+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kate havnevik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pesto alla carbonella'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gnocchi fritti allo sbotto silenzioso come fosse antani'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulm'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='singer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chikinki'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='norwegian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='myself'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='germany'/><title type='text'>100th post! - Kate Havnevik</title><content type='html'>The title was meant to be just "kate havnevik" but then I saw it was the 100th.&lt;div&gt;Kate Havnevik is a norwegian female singer. She had been in a lot of different styles and genres, but up to now I only had the chance to listen to two tracks from her (back then) recent album, "unlike me" and "timeless". I didn't want to talk about the music in itself but about what that music means to me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I discovered her just for instance during random surfing (despite the shroddy internet connection) when I was in Ulm, and downloaded for free these two songs...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I was astonished how dreamy and enchanted these atmosphere were. Ulm, my first city, the snow, my small room, at the top of a typical german house (i'm not sure about a precise definition for the kind of building in this case), in sight of the münster and a nice view over the inner city roofs, the cold breeze, the nights and the walks along the city, the food, the smells, the small discoveries, the straßenbahn stop in the early morning and the nice tune of my morning alarm, the unknown language which made everything harder but more miserious, and Havnevik with her wonderful music. I felt happy for every step I made in the cold. I felt in a wonderland which in Huggin and Muninn's phantasies is called Norway or Scandinavia, even though I think it's probably nowhere but our spirits.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Everything was perfect and I had a life on my own, deciding for every step, the room was my nest, even tho somebody else could have seen it as a dark lair. Everything was delicate cause it was deeply me. My room and that music, my room and the snow, myself and the streets. I was sorrounded by and of myself. After some time, which was incredibly short - just a month or so, but felt like a life - I started to lack something: a guitar in my hands, a hug every now and then, a person to take care for. Yes, that's loneliness, but a very feeble one. I didn't look for my italian friends for a few weekends just for coincidence, which eventually I did. And then I met her. And everything changed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The world which was still and silent like in a snow bowl started spinning fast and fast and my frozen heart respawned and the music changed: it was time for chikinki.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But now I'm going too further.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Everything was too short, the time for myself and the time for chikinki. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Only 5 fucking months. Never doing it again, too short time.&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/556085913567246114-5876973674962591569?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/5876973674962591569/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=5876973674962591569' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5876973674962591569'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5876973674962591569'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/07/100th-post-kate-havnevik.html' title='100th post! - Kate Havnevik'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-1055121395544106400</id><published>2008-07-10T08:48:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-07-10T09:18:37.367+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='åland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sbotto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salsa di acciughe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sbronze'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stockholm'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cacare'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bere'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='urpo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maccheroni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sauna'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sweden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='weird people.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finns'/><title type='text'>The travels of Munniver</title><content type='html'>I' sorry for all the (imaginary) readers of this blog, for not having time - or means - to share my extreme experiences in the country that recently won the "most eccentric country" award: Finland.&lt;div&gt;I've been here for... several weeks, lots of time and yet not enough. My knowledge of finnish advances very slowly, partly for lack of time, but mostly for the characteristic of the language itself. Every time I learn a new word, or grammar feature, I find out later that I was mistaken, or the word is right, but it has 7 other more often used synonyms. Learning a language has seldom been more frustrating.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The other habits still surprise me, or I surprise them; for example, Jaakko was amazed, impressed and disgusted when he saw me putting salt on salad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Salt and oil, is there anything more basic for a salad?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And there is a lot more. What about, for example, the silence? It seems to be a law in here, that I actually don't dislike - and as every rule is often broken by teenagers. I could spend hours describing the perfectly hygenic lack of hygene; no matter what they do, finns are always healthy - except for lactose allergies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I should post a few pictures, but, well, they are on the other account now. I suggest to everybody who has a facebook account to check them there.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;All the time I've been moving. After Lappeenranta I came back to lahti for one single day to leave again for Helsinki. There, after 2 days I departed for Turku, where the Ferry to Mariehamn, Åland, was. Together with Jaakko we went on a short trip with the motto "Knights &amp;amp; Dragons". Don't ask me why.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;After enjoying tax free shopping, wonderful scenery from the sundeck, terrible wind on the sundeck, we reached the glorious capital of... Åland.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The city is tiny but quite pretty, a weird little island, in which finns can fell "half-foreigners".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There's not too much in Åland, but beaches, bird poo, ships and tiny forests should keep you busy for some time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Then we faced another too early departure, this time towards the capital of... Sweden!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I have to say - finns, forgive me -  I loved Stockholm. There is so much to see and to do; the capital seems massive, its city centre comfortable and huge: looking from the channel, you can see a wide wide city, or so it seems. Don't think of New York, that's way to  big, but in Stockholm, there's free air - except in the small tourist venues of the Old city - everywhere. There is room for people. And toilets are expensive.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There is an entire small island for museums and a park, a Tourist could spend weeks in it. We only had tim to visit the &lt;a href="http://www.vasamuseet.se/InEnglish/about.aspx"&gt;Vasa museum&lt;/a&gt; and it was great.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;By chance, we had the two sunniest day of the summer... so that the city looked even happier and warmer - Helsinki feels quite the opposite.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, long story short, I ran out of time. I'll try to write again soon....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;BWOOOOOUU - INAPPROPRIATE!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-1055121395544106400?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/1055121395544106400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=1055121395544106400' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1055121395544106400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1055121395544106400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/07/travels-of-munniver.html' title='The travels of Munniver'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-4746969081657467993</id><published>2008-07-05T17:16:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-07-06T20:02:45.321+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Birmingham by surf</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/SHEInxH56bI/AAAAAAAAAGg/qBzoUQSbPv8/s1600-h/392165933_93d0c58afc.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/SHEInxH56bI/AAAAAAAAAGg/qBzoUQSbPv8/s320/392165933_93d0c58afc.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219962922393528754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A friend of mine is going to Birmingham in a couple of months. He's going there with an international mobility project within university and a company. Lucky he is!&lt;div&gt;Not that I'm fond of Britain but must be a great experience. After all is exactly the same experience as I did, just coordinates change: the country, the person, the company.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Another friend of mine just ended up the bachelor degree and I'm doing that in a couple of months too hopefully, so an idea rose to my mind: why don't we all go there?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;That's exactly the kind of sudden ideas that fade in a couple of minutes. Anyway I surfed to Birmingham and exactly to the local university site. I roamed an hour maybe on internet to seek infos, images and tastes. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When I was a bit younger I was used to just take a map and fly to that region with my imagination. I usually chose dolomites or other mountain regions among Italy. Now I look a bit further the italian borders, but I'm still doing the same, and I soak the same juice. I think I like to travel that way as much as I do really travelling and organizing real travels...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For the whole morning I felt in Birmingham, between the thick red bricks of the campus and the typical british spring air. The hot summer was not there anymore for a short time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Living abroad is a different thing than travelling. I'm still willing to do both.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-4746969081657467993?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/4746969081657467993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=4746969081657467993' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/4746969081657467993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/4746969081657467993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/07/birmingham-by-surf.html' title='Birmingham by surf'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/SHEInxH56bI/AAAAAAAAAGg/qBzoUQSbPv8/s72-c/392165933_93d0c58afc.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-1261100399389496344</id><published>2008-06-29T17:26:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T17:54:23.303+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ciccio e nonna papera'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='melaleuca caprifolia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='death'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paté di portofino'/><title type='text'>Die zeit, the time that kills</title><content type='html'>After this huge expierence (never huge enough, never long enough, never enough), there's a lesson among the others that I had to draw: Time wipes, with every little drop that flows away, places, emotions, moments, feelings, people, loves.&lt;br /&gt;I can be pretty sure I'll never see some special someones, but not necessarily cause of premature death: because mutually banished and ostracized by time.&lt;br /&gt;Leaving home first, and Ulm afterwards, I discovered that there's a horrible truth that I already knew, slightly, but I can feel burdening and omnipresent: time kills, passing by.&lt;br /&gt;When you live the same place for years you run into the illusion that things are changeless and still, because the hills never move, nor they'll do.&lt;br /&gt;But we walk in time, not only on earth, and the hills fade away, people fade away, we fade away. We'll never reach the same place even crossing a square called during the centuries under the same name. As Eraclitus said: &lt;b&gt;"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;World stands there, people don't, expierences don't.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We all have to face that, cause what scares us most of this truth is: death. Death is the natural consequence of all this. And as a natural thing we shouldn't be scared but allow it to be.&lt;br /&gt;If we couldn't die I think we would barely care about things going away forever. Time would be but a two penny coin if we would be timeless. Hopefully we are not.&lt;br /&gt;But we are scared to lose things as the time passes away: it gives us no control on the events, on our lives, nothing to hold on to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my taoistic point of view I feel this lesson as the most important one as it is the key to live peacefully whatever happens outside, whatever we have to face.&lt;br /&gt;There's no race, nor no place, that can avoid the rule of time, that's why Huginn is speaking that way: to tell you what he saw so far, wherever he went.&lt;br /&gt;Cheers.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-1261100399389496344?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/1261100399389496344/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=1261100399389496344' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1261100399389496344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1261100399389496344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/06/die-zeit-time-that-kills.html' title='Die zeit, the time that kills'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-7543438320812600067</id><published>2008-06-27T16:19:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T19:19:24.410+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spremuta di patate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='foto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='donne quasi completamente nude ma non proprio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lappeenranta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sugo al mustacchio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lakes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fottersi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sbotto silezioso'/><title type='text'>History loves to get stuck in linguistic facts</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;"Real history loves to get stuck in linguistic facts"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Munin hails you from the far north... "so near to the north pole" as grandma said.&lt;div&gt;Actually I'm still far far away from the northpole. I can't surprise you with 'Vönderful pictürs vrom Vinlant' because I don't have the cable to download them on this laptop. They'll come soon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'm in Lappeenranta - which is NOT in Lapland, and it is NOT snowing - suffering from early awakenings caused by the "midnight sun" which happens to be at 4AM and there's no curtain to stop it. It's true: finnish houses are great to bear the cold dark winter but completely unfit to the summer - which is, as you may not believe, just wonderful.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Finnish summer is not just warmer but the antithesis of the winter. The days are warm (not lately... but in general they are) but not too hot, which allows you to stay in, out, wherever you want. Sometimes in Italy it's so hot that you can't really go out or at least not enjoy it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If the day is not warm enough for you, you can just stay in sauna, which hot temperatures and incredible moist would please the pickiest tropical reptile.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The sun shines almost all the time, giving you freedom of performing any activity at any time of the day - except sleeping.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lappeenrant (Willmannstrand) happens to be on the biggest lake of Finland - or so they say - which continues, through an artificial channel, straight to Russia. The border is only at 30 km from here; for this reasons, the city, even though very small, is packed with russians, and pretty much everything is written both in finnish and russian - no swedish. The buildings and the city are small but prettier than most of the finnish cities. It's a nice place.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lakes are very pretty and always accompanied by tiny foresty islands. The weather is completely crazy, alternating thunderstorms with sunshine, but I heard that it's the same in all europe. And what about the food crisis? It is giving me the creeps, aren't they exaggerating? First it was a bad year for agriculture and now all the prices - even dairy, meat, chocolate, drinks - is overpriced.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well anyway, I came to think about houses.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What are our houses really for? Are they a place for fitting human beings, feed them and make them sleep in warm beds or something else, a temple to some pagan deity?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'm thinking of all the rooms locked, left there "for some special event" or "so that I don't have to clean them everyday". Are our houses some temple of self-worship, of esteem-wanking, to show ourselves our little amount of glory and wealth, not to show or to use? Are they some complex political instrument to promote our image? Are they a den of vanity, furniture and appearance, or a safe place for people, steady or traveling, a shelter for friends, to offer them a bed and a warm soup in the time of need?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Take care, Munin.&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/556085913567246114-7543438320812600067?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/7543438320812600067/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=7543438320812600067' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7543438320812600067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7543438320812600067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/06/history-loves-to-get-stuck-in.html' title='History loves to get stuck in linguistic facts'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-1083757459550081241</id><published>2008-06-15T18:39:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-15T19:01:31.139+02:00</updated><title type='text'>A day to the seaside</title><content type='html'>Life is like a trip to the seaside on a sunday...&lt;br /&gt;You wake up in the morning and walk to the seaside, and all you think about is reaching it, cause you think it's the place you want to go at the moment. You have to walk for a hundred yards and you have to stop frequently to let the cars go by and cross the street. Like at school: exams are a sort of barrier to cross to reach the last goal: reaching the sea, ending the education and get to the adult age. You have a bag with you: with a paddle and a bucket to build up your own sand castle, and loads of other toys.&lt;br /&gt;Eventually you get to the sea.&lt;br /&gt;And there you go: it's already 12 and the sun is freakin'burning...&lt;br /&gt;You've never been to the sea before: you wouldn't imagine it to be so huge: everything's blue in front of you. It's nearly scary... And now? What should you do?&lt;br /&gt;It's a bad moment when you reach the adult age, you get your degree and kicked out in the world of work. The sea's so huge. You've always been sorrounded by houses and walls, with small steps to do one after the other, one at time. Now everything's free and there's a lot of space, but your eyes refuse to see: what should I do with all that space?&lt;br /&gt;Some people now are laying down at the sun: they're lucky, they can live their day without doing anything. But you're a honest guy and you're going to call the people that are coming to the shore with a boat. They are fishers and they'll give you some hard work for today and some money too.&lt;br /&gt;They come closer, you hail loud them to get the attention, and after a few words they'll get you: you're on for today.&lt;br /&gt;You throw your bag: the toys, the bucket, the sand castle: there's no time for it anymore. Bye bye toys. You jump on the boat.&lt;br /&gt;From now on you have to face the infinities of the seas. From now on you can decide. You can keep on fishing with these guys or trying to get to a bigger one and sea another sea.&lt;br /&gt;What will happen next?&lt;br /&gt;Probably they'll get you to the shore, you'll be old and your face wrinkled, your hands marked by fatigue and the salt of the sea. They'll get you to the shore and they'll give you a few of the food you fished together with them: will be enough for today, cause the day is nearly gone, sun's setting and you'll have some time to rest on the seaside.&lt;br /&gt;Maybe you'll even find your toys. But you forgot how to build a sand castle.&lt;br /&gt;Sun's down, it's getting cold, too cold.&lt;br /&gt;And that's how your life ended, that's how your day to the seaside went.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-1083757459550081241?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/1083757459550081241/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=1083757459550081241' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1083757459550081241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1083757459550081241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/06/day-to-seaside.html' title='A day to the seaside'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-8324482564444576158</id><published>2008-06-15T18:26:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T19:20:52.945+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beowulf and his midgets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='midnight sun'/><title type='text'>Vinlant!</title><content type='html'>I'm in Finland right now and I've been here for 4 days now. I wish to speak a bit about it, but i'm given no time at the right moment. I'll surprise you with a few pictures though...&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SFVEKo1M3aI/AAAAAAAAAG0/Tw3Jm-IfmQg/s200/128_4886.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212147093301157282" /&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SFVDinPXCII/AAAAAAAAAGs/zhqgjt8fIEc/s200/128_4898.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212146405679237250" /&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SFVDiI6alcI/AAAAAAAAAGk/umN-qb7O9A0/s200/128_4892.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212146397538325954" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&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;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;Wonderful sunset on lake Näsijärvi. 11PM approx.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SFVEMcjwvnI/AAAAAAAAAHE/c21ru2jl4L8/s200/128_4959.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212147124366524018" /&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;Hedgehog (Siili) in Tampere.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-8324482564444576158?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/8324482564444576158/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=8324482564444576158' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8324482564444576158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8324482564444576158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/06/vinlant.html' title='Vinlant!'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SFVEKo1M3aI/AAAAAAAAAG0/Tw3Jm-IfmQg/s72-c/128_4886.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-7717726979258474160</id><published>2008-06-07T21:24:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-07T21:30:20.343+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='motorini truccati'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cacare'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sbotto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scorregge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drink'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='succo di melanzane'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drunk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='erasmus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='truzzi di merda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sbotto silezioso'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pistulino'/><title type='text'>Briefly</title><content type='html'>Have you thought it was the end? That with that last post, "Hugin and Munin" or "Fratelli oltr'Alpe" was archived, finished, just a piece of garbage left in Google's memory? Did you &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;hope&lt;/span&gt; for it? It's not!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SErhBRtbLmI/AAAAAAAAAGU/LCNDxyA6_SM/s1600-h/206479600_9205290241_o.gif.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SErhBRtbLmI/AAAAAAAAAGU/LCNDxyA6_SM/s200/206479600_9205290241_o.gif.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209223331057446498" border="0" /&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;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eventually, Erasmus is just about getting drunk with foreign people.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-7717726979258474160?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/7717726979258474160/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=7717726979258474160' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7717726979258474160'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7717726979258474160'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/06/briefly.html' title='Briefly'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SErhBRtbLmI/AAAAAAAAAGU/LCNDxyA6_SM/s72-c/206479600_9205290241_o.gif.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-853524864811187529</id><published>2008-06-03T23:13:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-07T21:32:01.526+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='farewell'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irlanda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='airplane'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aereo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dublin'/><title type='text'>Farewell</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SEW6KRhoa5I/AAAAAAAAAF8/ni_5WzuaQZc/s1600-h/Ireland_from_space_edit.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SEW6KRhoa5I/AAAAAAAAAF8/ni_5WzuaQZc/s200/Ireland_from_space_edit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207773229789768594" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And thus it happened. Quickly, without time for remorse, the end came.&lt;br /&gt;All my flatmates left very soon. I hated them, but leaving is forgiving. May they have peace.&lt;br /&gt;Luca left quite soon. We gathered there, in the courtyard, after a long terrible night in "the Church". It was a very windy and sunny morning, time for farewell. That was the last time I saw him. We kept tears for ourselves. Remy brought him to the airport on his car. The two flatmates travelled together once more.&lt;br /&gt;Many memories came to my mind, things to remember, thing seen together. All gone.&lt;br /&gt;We had but a last hug to tell each other everything. Goodbye.&lt;br /&gt;Thus he left. The wind brought clouds. We went back home.&lt;br /&gt;Then it was time to say hello to everybody else, the same night.&lt;br /&gt;I spent the day cleaning and trashing everything I couldn't bring with me. One shall not have more than he can carry on his shoulders, if he's willing to have any adventure.&lt;br /&gt;Things own us, they are an anchor that keep us down, at the harbour.&lt;br /&gt;Evening came. We ate our last dinner, full of sorrow, of remorse, and carelessness. Then all the "survivors" met there, at Alice's place (was it?). Me, Henna, Remy, Alice, Arielle, Giorgia, Federica. We spent a wonderful night, talking, throwing a ball, throwing wax on Remy's laptop (ooops), drinking vinegar (yuck!), beer.... One of those usual wonderful Erasmus night. So bad it was the last one. Then me and Henna had to leave, our flight was in the night. We hugged everybody and said bye a thousand times. It was so hard. Then we wanted to say farewell to the Californians, Christian, Federico, Kevin. They were having a party at Trevor's and every single of them was drunk as fuck. They barely notice we where in. We managed to say bye to Federico though. It was better maybe. I felt sick of farewells. We saw them in the best of their lives, laughing and having fun, not minding about the future.  The moment itself was reality. Jumping and spanking each other was the thing. I like to imagine that they are partying even now, there in Belgrove; I am too melancholic to party on the edge of the end.&lt;br /&gt;Farewell boys, I will not forget you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SEW6q_PHodI/AAAAAAAAAGE/4RZZrwr48Ww/s1600-h/IMG_2712.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SEW6q_PHodI/AAAAAAAAAGE/4RZZrwr48Ww/s200/IMG_2712.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207773791815967186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Away we went. They were playing Stairway to Heaven....&lt;br /&gt;Packages done, away we go, to the airport. At the first light of dawn we get to say goodbye, we are able to say "farewell or see you" to all the buildings and fields, dyed by the pink morning light. The early bus catches me and Henna. He drives us north, to the airport. We are given the chance for a last look to the city. Seagulls walk in Grafton Street. The radio is on a Gaelic channel. The speaker says us "Slàn". Here we go, the journey with the bus ends, we are in the airport.&lt;br /&gt;The thousand things I didn't have time to do come to my mind. It's too late to mourn.&lt;br /&gt;Farewell Ireland.&lt;br /&gt;Me and Henna take different planes. For us it is just a "see you soon".&lt;br /&gt;I am tired. I did not sleep all night. But I have some energy left to feel sad other than sleepy.&lt;br /&gt;The airplane accelerates, more and more; the wheels leave the soil, and as they are tear away from the soil, my heart is teared apart. Farewell Ireland. This time is no joke. This time may be forever. Farewell Ireland. Farewell to the green fields and the muddy beaches, to the crows and the people, to the Guinness and Inis Mòr, to the incredible rocks of Giants' Causeway and wonderful lakes of Killarney.&lt;br /&gt;Farewell Kathleen ni Houlihan, my love, Farewell.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SEW7EWct9RI/AAAAAAAAAGM/gYIy58QPimk/s1600-h/glendalough+137.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SEW7EWct9RI/AAAAAAAAAGM/gYIy58QPimk/s200/glendalough+137.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207774227543749906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-853524864811187529?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/853524864811187529/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=853524864811187529' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/853524864811187529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/853524864811187529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/06/farewell.html' title='Farewell'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SEW6KRhoa5I/AAAAAAAAAF8/ni_5WzuaQZc/s72-c/Ireland_from_space_edit.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-3904121922251505691</id><published>2008-06-03T23:05:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-06T09:38:15.178+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='O&apos;Donoghues'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drink'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><title type='text'>O'Donoghues</title><content type='html'>This world famous pub was worth a good pint before leaving the Island. So we stopped there one afternoon, a not crowded day, to have some black stuff.&lt;br /&gt;The pub is very small, the toilets almost medieval, the walls scratched and covered with hundreds of pictures. Al this, in the rest of the world, means a low-prestige, dirty filthy place. In Ireland it means quality.&lt;br /&gt;High quality is the people, a company of old-middle aged Irish women. Incredibly good was the pint. Nice was the day. A good place, go there when it's not crowded and enjoy. You'll never forget.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-3904121922251505691?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/3904121922251505691/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=3904121922251505691' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3904121922251505691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3904121922251505691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/06/odonoghues.html' title='O&apos;Donoghues'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-7839612168540616847</id><published>2008-05-30T12:25:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-30T12:26:19.139+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Church</title><content type='html'>Do you know the pub called "The Church" because it's actually built inside what was a place of cult?&lt;br /&gt;Don't go there.&lt;br /&gt;It sucks and it's expensive.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-7839612168540616847?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/7839612168540616847/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=7839612168540616847' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7839612168540616847'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7839612168540616847'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/05/church.html' title='The Church'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-2571586093235456953</id><published>2008-05-30T11:48:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T19:20:08.526+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='national gallery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ireland'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='museum'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dublin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vikings'/><title type='text'>national gallery</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SD_RkMsDunI/AAAAAAAAAFw/qhK2dbYBhU0/s1600-h/sea-stallion-at-sea.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SD_RkMsDunI/AAAAAAAAAFw/qhK2dbYBhU0/s200/sea-stallion-at-sea.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206110114075097714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've some tips for those who are still in Dublin, or will be there soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;National Gallery:&lt;br /&gt;This place is worth visiting, since it's free. And free museums are what I love about Ireland.&lt;br /&gt;The gallery is a weird one. It is place in the old barracks, a huge courtyard with an old nice building around it. In the courtyard was (and now is no more) the "Sea Stallion", a faithful reproduction of a Viking ship built in Glendalough. Which makes me quite suspicious, since Glendalough is not on the sea. But... the ship has been used! It sailed, with a crew of volounteers, from Denmark to Dublin. It's a small shell apparently, with no motor but sail and oars. It shows how tough were Vikings and theirs ships.&lt;br /&gt;The museum itself closes way too early (at 5PM they kick you out) and it's a terrible, random placement of good material. I enjoyed the historical museum, in Kildare street, but the national gallery is just a mess. There are small, well constructed sections, like the one on war - excellent indeed - and on 1916 and civil war. Personally, I'm sick with 1916 Revolution. I mean, it's everywhere, even on Lisbon treaty posters. Ok, it was a good attempt, but could we pleeeeease, move on? 1916 is over! And it wasn't even really succesful!&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, the section is very well constructed, since it's the kind of gallery which does not need any guide.&lt;br /&gt;Then there are the "selected objects", a small room with almost 20 (i don't remember the exact number) of objects selected by the leaders of the museum. Nice. And then.... it comes the thing...&lt;br /&gt;THE RANDOM GALLERY. All the stuff that they could fit is placed in a few rooms, on glass shelves or even drawers, without any explanation or date. Just completely random stuff.&lt;br /&gt;Then a nice but quite meaningless section about furniture.&lt;br /&gt;I would say it's a 7.5 out of ten, good but needs improvements.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-2571586093235456953?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/2571586093235456953/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=2571586093235456953' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2571586093235456953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2571586093235456953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/05/national-gallery.html' title='national gallery'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SD_RkMsDunI/AAAAAAAAAFw/qhK2dbYBhU0/s72-c/sea-stallion-at-sea.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-6286076149916971268</id><published>2008-05-27T12:53:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-27T15:37:00.256+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The end</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/SDwOSMIULQI/AAAAAAAAAGM/piChne5NxJI/s1600-h/PA146048-Edit-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/SDwOSMIULQI/AAAAAAAAAGM/piChne5NxJI/s200/PA146048-Edit-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205050974989987074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come si poteva chiedere al tempo di fermarsi?&lt;br /&gt;Come si poteva sperare che il destino non desse fine a ciò che era nato per terminare presto?&lt;br /&gt;Eppure ho sperato.&lt;br /&gt;Ho sperato che si potesse trasformare, che potesse finire una fase di questa esperienza per tramutarsi in qualcosa di diverso che potesse ancora far parte della mia vita.&lt;br /&gt;E invece no.&lt;br /&gt;Con l'arrivo degli scatoloni a casa tutta la mia vita di Ulm riconfluisce nella mia stanza, che trabocca di oggetti, ricordi. Lacrime anche. Forse fa parte del gioco.&lt;br /&gt;Ora c'è solo una compagnia che può sopperire a quella mancanza di giochi, gioie e scoperte: la mia finestra. Sempre lei. Dalla mia finestra tutto prende forma in una razionalità che va oltre la logica, perché da pace. Va oltre gli schemi perché è in forma di colline.&lt;br /&gt;Ho imparato tanto, troppo. E sono stanco. Vorrei ripartire, ma non riesco neanche a riallacciare la cintura. Vorrei scoprire ancora il mondo fuori, ma ora è il momento di collezionare le memorie.&lt;br /&gt;Riflettere e assorbire. Assorbire le memorie, gli errori, i tentativi, le lacrime.&lt;br /&gt;Assorbire per ritrovare un po' di energia e ripartire da zero con una vita che pensavo finita.&lt;br /&gt;Kathrin non fa più parte della mia vita. La distanza e gli eventi hanno ucciso un sogno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muoio oggi per rinascere domani. Come un rampicante mi aggrappavo ad un muro cadente, e per non venir strappato taglio quel vizzo, che seccherà sul muro e cadrà con esso.&lt;br /&gt;La fine. La fine.&lt;br /&gt;Ed un nuovo inizio.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-6286076149916971268?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/6286076149916971268/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=6286076149916971268' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/6286076149916971268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/6286076149916971268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/05/end.html' title='The end'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/SDwOSMIULQI/AAAAAAAAAGM/piChne5NxJI/s72-c/PA146048-Edit-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-5436455660185057808</id><published>2008-05-22T17:59:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-22T18:04:56.899+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Pictures</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SDWZlcsDukI/AAAAAAAAAFY/4whakCao1Fo/s1600-h/dublin+life+006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SDWZlcsDukI/AAAAAAAAAFY/4whakCao1Fo/s200/dublin+life+006.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203233813131672130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SDWZl8sDulI/AAAAAAAAAFg/k1oDkfnyJJs/s1600-h/dublin+life+007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SDWZl8sDulI/AAAAAAAAAFg/k1oDkfnyJJs/s200/dublin+life+007.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203233821721606738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SDWZmcsDumI/AAAAAAAAAFo/HcDKbqbYQRA/s1600-h/dublin+life+008.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SDWZmcsDumI/AAAAAAAAAFo/HcDKbqbYQRA/s200/dublin+life+008.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203233830311541346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SDWZU8sDufI/AAAAAAAAAEw/5xZQ11LFyQ4/s1600-h/dublin+life+001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SDWZV8sDuiI/AAAAAAAAAFI/qnXCRdRGyxQ/s200/dublin+life+005.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203233546843699746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SDWZWcsDujI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/_76oM993_tQ/s1600-h/dublin+life+006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SDWZWcsDujI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/_76oM993_tQ/s200/dublin+life+006.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203233555433634354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally I have some pictures of Waylander's gig, and many others!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-5436455660185057808?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/5436455660185057808/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=5436455660185057808' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5436455660185057808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5436455660185057808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/05/pictures.html' title='Pictures'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SDWZlcsDukI/AAAAAAAAAFY/4whakCao1Fo/s72-c/dublin+life+006.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-6313757739202312775</id><published>2008-05-22T13:28:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-22T13:56:56.729+02:00</updated><title type='text'>news &amp;quotations</title><content type='html'>I'm at the end of my Erasmus. I've said farewell to my flatmates, farewell to UCD, farewell to many things.&lt;br /&gt;I still have a few days to spend in Dublin and I'll try to make them great.&lt;br /&gt;My Erasmus life has ended, this I know. I should write how do I feel about it, what have I learnt, but it's not quite the right moment; I am already writing and storing my thoughts, but I'll post them only when they'll be fully translated. So when I'll be back in Italy I will still write about Dublin. I'm going to review a few things and places, like O'Donoghues, the National Museum, and so on.&lt;br /&gt;Sincerely, when we started this blog, I (and probably Hugin too) was scared and thrilled by the idea of such an experience and I had no time to think about coming back. If I were to realize how leaving Ireland feels, I probably would have never applied for the exchange. But here I am, in one of the few Europe's corner which has never been conquered by the Romans.&lt;br /&gt;The quest is not finished though. The Aldafaðr would be quite narrow-minded if he thought to use my sight only to explore the small and remote Ireland.  I'll be back to Bananitaly on the 26th, but another plane will bring me to Finland on the 11th of june. My wanderings continue, and what I see shall be written down for all (well... for a few...) to read and perhaps remember.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quotation time:&lt;br /&gt;"You should do it on baily dasis!" myself.&lt;br /&gt;"People in the north are ignorant!" Alex aus Napoli. It should be read as "Peepol in de nord ar ee-nj-or-aant"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May the north wind be a bit warmer this summer!&lt;br /&gt;Munin&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-6313757739202312775?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/6313757739202312775/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=6313757739202312775' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/6313757739202312775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/6313757739202312775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/05/news.html' title='news &amp;quotations'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-6439092235411304453</id><published>2008-05-11T21:41:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-06T09:39:46.951+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Myspace'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='runecaster'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='metal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='folk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='concerto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Waylander'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cruachan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gig'/><title type='text'>The Kings of Irish Folk Metal</title><content type='html'>I promised some picture, but since Henna didn't send them to me yet, I'll replace them with some taken from the bands' Myspaces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SCdMINrHDJI/AAAAAAAAAEI/Eue-vDzNymc/s1600-h/runecaster1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SCdMINrHDJI/AAAAAAAAAEI/Eue-vDzNymc/s200/runecaster1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199207998815669394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We pay the ticket and enter the lair underneath the surface of Temple Bar. In such occasions, the club suddenly transforms: you come from the terrible streets of temple bar on saturday night, packed with italians, spanish and french people (Henna would say "but mostly germans"), drunk or going to get drunk, and enter this underworld with tall (!!!) long haired stout Irish headbangers, with T-shirts of every possible metal band, from Iron Maiden to Korpiklaani and even Apocalyptica and Moonsorrow.&lt;br /&gt;Runecaster had already started playing and a hammering 1/16 bass drum beat welcomes us. The band features 4 members, whose leader sings, plays guitar and the tin whistle when appropriate. Ok, the band does not show great excellence in arrangements or complicate riffs and structure, but good will and cheerful metallic power. The leader is actually the whistle-bodhrann-mandolin player of Waylander, and Runecaster may be just a side project in which he is the leader.&lt;br /&gt;We arrived a bit late, so I listened only to a few songs from this band, anyway the feeling was good even with all the sound problems, mics, etc. Folk metal bands must have some problems when playing live: they usually have more instruments than musicians and switching is difficult: acoustic guitar are replaced with clean electric guitars; Bodhrann and flutes are difficult to amplify.&lt;br /&gt;The face-body painting was funny but very &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;in tema&lt;/span&gt;. At first I thought the drummer had huge blue nipples!&lt;br /&gt;Then the band stops playing and leaves the stage. The "filling" music starts playing: Whiskey in the jar! But the song stops: Runecaster are given time for another song!&lt;br /&gt;Good performance, but finally, after some Flogging Molly, the unofficial protagonists of the night&lt;br /&gt;: Waylander!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SCluCdrHDKI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/wcPddmUtaD4/s1600-h/wayland1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SCluCdrHDKI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/wcPddmUtaD4/s200/wayland1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199808233380187298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their entrance is a bit weird since the guitarist-singer of Runecaster is still there... with his tin whistle! The bands enter, they have body painiting of the same colour as Runecaster and they look cool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/clanwaylander"&gt;Check them on Myspace&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;They start with a song with a silly name: "Walk with honour" (or actually "wok wid onow") but quite cool. The singer is not that good with clean vocal but has a good growl, the groove is fast and chaotic, the band shows complete carelessness for mistakes - but this is the unifying theme of the night - just as I would imagine celtic music; Irish lads, you know.&lt;br /&gt;Their part on the stage is short but impressive. Without too much seriousness they sweat on the stage - hell, everything was hot and wet that night and no oxigen for anybody!&lt;br /&gt;I liked the MANLY and AGGRESSIVE attitude of the band, but their overall cheerfulness. They even let a crazy men in the audience sing a few lines. All Eamon Doran's was on fire when they played their last song "Born to the fight", which they played &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;slightly&lt;/span&gt; longer than the original, for, like, 8-10 minutes? Whatever, it was gr&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SClw7NrHDLI/AAAAAAAAAEY/2dYXgsnzZxE/s1600-h/cruachan1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SClw7NrHDLI/AAAAAAAAAEY/2dYXgsnzZxE/s200/cruachan1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199811407361019058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;eat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is time now to introduce the main band of the night, and the main delusion: Cruachan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is from their Myspace:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Cruachan combine modern rock /metal with traditional Irish music, but there is a lot m&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ore to them than just that: elaborate classical pieces, ancient medieval tunes etc. They also use real instruments rather than relying solely on a ke&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;yboard or sampler. The use of these instruments also adds an element of curiosity in live shows due to each member's ability to play a variety of instruments. Some of the traditional instruments they use are: Tin whistle, Irish Flute, Bódhran (an ancient hand-held goatskin drum), Uilleann pipes (or elbow pipes, like the traditional bag pipes, but instead of blowing, a bellows is used to pump air into the bag), Harp, Bouzouki (originally a Greek guitar, it has been adopted into Irish and Scottish music) Cruachan's original metal style could have been classed as Black metal, but the band have now opened up to other styles of metal and rock, although the black influenc&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;es are still evident and the whole ethos is still there. Cruachan consider themselves as modern day bards or storytellers. They tell the old Celtic myths and legends of their proud past like the ancient Fili did before them, or the tales of hardship and rebellion that Ireland endured, through the medium of music "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;ndeed they have many pros: they really use all those instruments &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;widely&lt;/span&gt; and not just &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;en passant&lt;/span&gt; for intros like most of folk metal bands. They started in '93 to play black-folk metal, which is quite early: Bathory released their first real Viking metal album, Hammerheart, only in 1990, and in '93 Varg Vikernes was imprisoned, closing a stage of black metal.&lt;br /&gt;But for some reasons, &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SCl0p9rHDMI/AAAAAAAAAEg/P0G1Be1-SDs/s1600-h/cruachan2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SCl0p9rHDMI/AAAAAAAAAEg/P0G1Be1-SDs/s200/cruachan2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199815509054786754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;the gig just wasn't right.&lt;br /&gt; John O'Fathaigh's mic (Tin Whistle player) did not work at all and he was clearly pissed off/embarassed. I didn't almost hear the bozouki too. The Bodhrann was neglected most of the night, but Cruachan didn't use it at all if I remember correctly. Keith Fay is not a "guitar hero", but his growl is strong and dark. I think his guitar was out of tune, or he was using minor chords, which do not blend that well with happy Irish fiddles. The overall effect was grotesque.&lt;br /&gt;The first impact was very negative, but with the following songs the band gets better: Karen Gilligan pops on the stage, and the band plays what seems to be a famous masterpiece: "Ride On". The melody is now milder, the female voice is well alternated with Keith's vocals; good song, the audience loved it.&lt;br /&gt;The last song(s?) gave more credibility to the band, that unleashed all its Black power and rage, without Karen and Irish stuff and I really enjoyed this part. Just pure evil chaos, for the extreme headbangers. Then, without even say "bye" (did they? I didn't notice) they left the stage.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SCl3edrHDNI/AAAAAAAAAEo/Wsb_ZGmVCzM/s1600-h/cruachan3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SCl3edrHDNI/AAAAAAAAAEo/Wsb_ZGmVCzM/s200/cruachan3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199818610021174482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In conclusion, I think the band sounds good in studio, but didn't live.&lt;br /&gt;Keith wore a quite ugly/funny leather armour, and all the members looked more pissed than amused (unlike Runecaster and Waylander!); technical problems made their gig less enjoyable; their extreme nationalism was a bit annoying. I mean, it's ok, they play Folk Metal with Irish roots, so you expect them to sing about Brian Boru, Cuchulinn, Irish legends etc. But the Irish flag on the stage, dedicating the first song only to Irish headbangers (and there were several foreigners that night), saying that Ireland was &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;the only western country to ever have a famine&lt;/span&gt;... I mean, it was just a bit excessive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I don't want to be over-criticising: the overall feeling of the night was very relaxed, careless and pagan. The place was packed, especially since such bands which would be called "weird" in Ireland; the bands were very sensitive toward the audience.&lt;br /&gt;All in all I think Irish folk metal is still rawer than, say, the Scandinavian one. I never saw them live, but bands like Lumsk, Korpiklaani, Fejd, show much more attention to details and arrangement; I appreciated the harsh look and sound though, and I think it is very appropriate to Irish music.&lt;br /&gt;So, Irish Metal, see you soon!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Munin says hi.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-6439092235411304453?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/6439092235411304453/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=6439092235411304453' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/6439092235411304453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/6439092235411304453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/05/kings-of-irish-folk-metal.html' title='The Kings of Irish Folk Metal'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SCdMINrHDJI/AAAAAAAAAEI/Eue-vDzNymc/s72-c/runecaster1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-8155266700617958896</id><published>2008-05-11T14:45:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-11T15:22:06.284+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Chapter X - Chaos</title><content type='html'>Yesterday I went to a small gig at Eamon Doran's - Temple Bar - , a "king of irish folk metal" night, with - in this order - Runecaster, Waylander and Cruachan. The concert was fun, but I will spare a detailed description of it later, when I will download the photos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then me and Henna went back home. All south Dublin was silent, except for Belgrove, "where chaos (and not god) ruled all over the race of Belgrovites, as it still does now". Who understands the quotation wins a french kiss.&lt;br /&gt;Everybody was out in the courtyard (yes, out in the fields like Phil Lynott) drinking, fighting, mating, smoking... you name it. Almost naked girls, a guy whith a Toga... every possible hellish vision was there, like Tortuga in "Pirates of the Caribbean".&lt;br /&gt;Right in the middle of the chaos there is a circle of people sitting: among them Luca, Remy, Federico, Arielle... people we know, so we joined them. Conor lost his job and got drunk, Luca was sick for drinking too, Remy... well, he had some business going on. Matteo misses the sun and wants to walk the Santiago de Compostela way or what the fuck is that called when people take a plane and then walk for miles only to give a look at a pagan site on which a christian shrine has been built. But everybody wants to win god's grace, right?&lt;br /&gt;Then the security came and quite violently started taking away drinks from people. Many were pissed of and there was open ostility and almost aggression on the security; thus the Garda was called. Under the menace of "disperse or I will arrest you, I'm fucking serious" chaos stopped, groups were dispersed, and only few throngs were left, smoking and complaining that in a free country we have right of assembly and Conor saying that Gardaì have no authority on private soil.&lt;br /&gt;Long story short, a reasonable amount of order was restored. Until the police went away and then it was chaos again. Not as much though. It was already 3 A.M. by the way.&lt;br /&gt;Then we gathered at Remy-Luca-Christian place (neat as usual). Henna moved the conversation on politics - how rare! - with drunken Conor and me. We left the frenchie to his affairs and we moved at my place, with Arielle, Federico and a few beers, gossiping about crazy germans on campus. Outside Somebody played Wonderwall by Oasis, the top hit of the century in Ireland, with a guitar.&lt;br /&gt;The night went on, and at 4:20 the sky was painted in light blue, dawn was near. We finally went to sleep, hoping to have a decent rest. Which did not happen.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-8155266700617958896?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/8155266700617958896/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=8155266700617958896' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8155266700617958896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8155266700617958896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/05/chapter-x-chaos.html' title='Chapter X - Chaos'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-2614290749921481014</id><published>2008-05-10T20:03:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-06T09:40:27.571+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kettle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='yellow stuff'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stronzo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='schifo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bastard'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='horror'/><title type='text'>Vita di flat sharing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SCXj4cLMqLI/AAAAAAAAAD4/EoKq1rvf7Ag/s1600-h/casual+003.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SCXj4cLMqLI/AAAAAAAAAD4/EoKq1rvf7Ag/s200/casual+003.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198811903644444850" border="0" /&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;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SCXkGcLMqMI/AAAAAAAAAEA/1SyRO1eXL9o/s1600-h/casual+004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SCXkGcLMqMI/AAAAAAAAAEA/1SyRO1eXL9o/s200/casual+004.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198812144162613442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-2614290749921481014?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/2614290749921481014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=2614290749921481014' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2614290749921481014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2614290749921481014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/05/vita-di-flat-sharing.html' title='Vita di flat sharing'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/SCXj4cLMqLI/AAAAAAAAAD4/EoKq1rvf7Ag/s72-c/casual+003.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-1944776774403198760</id><published>2008-05-10T19:39:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-10T20:10:07.979+02:00</updated><title type='text'>pensieri e paesaggi</title><content type='html'>So was? Sono tornato da una settimana in Germania e mi ci è voluto un po' per ambientarmi. Il mare e le campagne marchigiane (per non parlare della bassa montagna, dove sono stato alcuni giorni) erano fantastiche. Penso il miglior periodo per visitare la nostra regione sia proprio la primavera inoltrata, quando ancora non è troppo caldo, i colori sono vividi e le coste di smeraldo.&lt;br /&gt;In merito ai paesaggi le marche meritano davvero, ed è una fortuna che non siano molto conosciute ai turisti, così ce le possiamo godere tutte per noi...&lt;br /&gt;D'altronde quest'anno le Marche sono in testa insieme alla Toscana per il numero di bandiere blu...&lt;br /&gt;Beh che dire anche qui la primavera è fiorita e sinceramente trovo alcuni scorci davvero fantastici, per non parlare dei campi coltivati a Raps, un fiore giallo che copre letteralmente le colline (colline mpf... è tutto piattissimo!) di lenzuola color sole. Le temperature sono come quelle in Italia e in bicicletta si gira che è una meraviglia (beh, visto? forse il fatto che tutto sia piatto non è tutto sto gran male!).&lt;br /&gt;Mi sono messo in testa che strade e case qui assomigliano un casino a quelle in Norvegia.&lt;br /&gt;Ah! Ah-ah! A proposito di fiori! Questa la devo proprio raccontare.&lt;br /&gt;Per capire a che grado di civilizzazione sono arrivati qui: Volete dei tulipani e narcisi per il balcone (beh il balcone gli edifici di centro città e molte delle casette monofamiliari a schiera non lo hanno, ma noi sì!) ?&lt;br /&gt;Bene: potete trovare dei campi vicino alla strada, di quando in quando, coltivati a fiori, tulipani e narcisi. Lì vi troverete un cartello con il prezzo dei fiori, alcuni coltellini per asportarli e un contenitore per monete. Non c'è nessuno a controllare, ovviamente: chi mai ruberebbe tulipani?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...un italiano, un francese, uno spagnolo, un inglese e persino il fantasma formaggino.&lt;br /&gt;Ma non un tedesco a quanto pare.&lt;br /&gt;Uhm adesso che guardo meglio fuori, mi sono convinto che invece i campi somiglino un po' all'Olanda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ci sono dei boschi di piccole dimensioni oltre ai campi qua. Nella zona di Stoccarda ci sono aree boschive molto più ampie e anche colline e campi coltivati ad uva. Dicono sia una regione più mite (anche se è ad un'ora di strada da qui). E' una bella zona anche quella, e Stoccarda è una bella città, anche fuori dal centro urbano. Non ci sono neanche quei quartieracci di baracche per operai. Qui neppure però questa è una città più piccola. E forse anche un po' monotona dopo alcuni mesi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'università probabilmente è il vero cuore di questa città, la cui mensa è straordinaria: c'è anche il menu BIO, cioè non solo quello vegetariano ma anche quello BIO! Per non parlare della scelta incredibile che avete!&lt;br /&gt;L'unico sconveniente è che sti tedeschi (che in genere sono tranquilli ma qualche volta c'hanno delle scappate da pignolazzi) ti fanno pagare il piatto a peso: niente trucco di ammassare quindici cotolette, insalate e paste diverse sullo stesso piatto perciò pagando il prezzo di un solo piatto...&lt;br /&gt;Ma c'è perfino una seconda saletta mensa per i dolci!&lt;br /&gt;Unico neo: se la cucina tedesca non vi piace siete fregati. A me piace, però ci sarà un motivo se le nostre diete sono più sane.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bene, detto questo?&lt;br /&gt;Ancora ho parecchi pensieri da esprimere, però facciamola breve, sarà per la prossima volta...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-1944776774403198760?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/1944776774403198760/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=1944776774403198760' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1944776774403198760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1944776774403198760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/05/pensieri-e-paesaggi.html' title='pensieri e paesaggi'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-2360448581562407356</id><published>2008-05-10T10:03:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-10T10:12:00.818+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='esami'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lezioni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='succo di melanzane'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='allarme'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bestialate'/><title type='text'>Fine delle lezioni, esami, bestialate</title><content type='html'>Interrompo il silenzio non per importanti riflessioni ma per mere minchiate. La serietà (e nuove foto ;)) verranno più tardi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Antefatto: il mio coinquilino francese, come sapete, è uno stronzo che spesso mi tiene sveglio la notte. Stesso dicasi per i miei dirimpettai. Ho provato mille volte a ricambiargli il favore, svegliandomi la mattina presto e facendo partire musica ad alto volume, cercando di passare l'aspirapolvere, e mille altri tentativi del genere. Mi è sempre sfuggito: un giorno non era a casa, un'altro era già sveglio, ecc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fatto:Tra un paio d'ore ho l'esame di filosoffia greca. Stamattina però mi sono messo ad armeggiare in cucina e a fare qualche esperimento oltre alla mia solita fettina di pudding. nel mio esperimento c'era anche dello zucchero, e un mezzo cucchiaino di questo è caduto sulla piastra calda. Lo zucchero brucia più di quanto pensavo, così una vivida fiammata si è sprigionata, seguita a breve distanza dall'allarme antincendio! Già, il nemico di tutti i sonni a Belgrove ha iniziato a ringhiare, e questa mattina ho svegliato sia il suddetto stronzo che la sua ragazza (ugualmente transalpina) che dormiva con lui.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le lezioni sono finite e l'atmosfera qua è moscia. Il sole è arrivato e gli irlandesi stanno di fuori a giocare a pallone invece di studiare, che novità. Ogni tanto piove anche, come oggi, ma è fisionomico.&lt;br /&gt;Cercherò di tenervi aggiornati in questi pochi aihmé giorni che mi rimangono in Irlanda.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-2360448581562407356?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/2360448581562407356/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=2360448581562407356' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2360448581562407356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2360448581562407356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/05/fine-delle-lezioni-esami-bestialate.html' title='Fine delle lezioni, esami, bestialate'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-7249907678191673795</id><published>2008-04-18T19:45:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T20:14:52.919+02:00</updated><title type='text'>alcune riflessioni di Huginn</title><content type='html'>A Ulm ho portato il sole.&lt;br /&gt;Sì, ho cambiato qualcosa in alcune persone, ho portato novità in certi ambienti, aiutato in certi altri e di certo sollevato anche un po' di chiacchiere in giro.&lt;br /&gt;Ho portato un po' del sole che vivo dentro.&lt;br /&gt;Quando sono arrivato Ulm era soleggiata. E tutte le volte che sono tornato da fuori c'era il sole.&lt;br /&gt;E tutte le volte che l'ho lasciata nevicava.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trattenute le lacrime a stento, caricando i bagagli su una macchina che mi avrebbe riportato in Italia, sotto una neve inaspettata e incalzante, ho baciato il mio addio a una città che per qualche motivo aveva attratto le mie simpatie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saranno stati i corvi, le prime nevi di novembre, così entusiasmanti.&lt;br /&gt;Saranno state le passeggiate solitarie per le strade (quanto si vede meglio sulle proprie gambe, fanculo l'auto).&lt;br /&gt;Saranno stati gli italiani, simpaticissimi e generosi, e i tedeschi sinceri e tranquilli.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Ulm ho portato il sole, ma sento di essermi portato a casa tanta nebbia.&lt;br /&gt;Aver abbandonato una realtà e delle persone per cui ero a mio modo un centro di gravità, è stata dura. Ma ancora più dura tornare all'università: un luogo che prima amavo, ma ora vedo solo come svilente e spersonalizzante. Non conto niente, non valgo niente, sono solo una bestia da esami.&lt;br /&gt;Cerco di capire per quale motivo avrei dovuto imparare a memoria la sintesi in controreazione dello stato, perché a memoria, e perché questa conoscenza determina l'essere o no un ingegnere. E nel frattempo arrivo lo "Zeugnis", il report di fine contratto con Frank che attesta le mie competenze tecniche e umane, mi riempe di complimenti e mi dice che con dispiacere chiudono il contratto.&lt;br /&gt;E allora mi chiedo perché non l'ho esteso come proponevano loro? Perché cazzo perché? Perché devo subire le pene meschine e barbine di gente che non ha mai lavorato davvero? Quante ce ne sono da dire sulla nuova università, su come si è adeguata la nostra e su certi professori.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Riforma del cazzo, ha rovinato l'università.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beh, per quanto riguarda l'esperienza di Huginn vi dico questo.&lt;br /&gt;E' stata grandiosa e mai la cancellerei. Sarebbe importante che tutti i popoli si spostassero e visitassero altri paesi. C'è sempre da imparare. Nel nostro caso c'è tutto da imparare. Quasi.&lt;br /&gt;Ora vorrei solo tornare alla terra natìa da vittorioso e restarmene qua, completare la specialistica e nel frattempo decidere per il futuro: sogno sempre di andare a vivere in Norvegia e trovare lavoro là, ma mi chiedo ancora se la Norvegia è un mito che mi sono costruito da me...&lt;br /&gt;E qua ho tutto, non manca niente. Anche il lavoro più bello che potessi desiderare.&lt;br /&gt;Le montagne e il mare, il Conero non ce l'hanno in molti...&lt;br /&gt;Quello che ci manca è un sistema sociale adeguato, una società democratica e una politica quasi onesta. E non possiamo sperare di averli nei prossimi 5-10 anni credo.&lt;br /&gt;Quello che ci manca è una vita serena, perché qui siamo tutti stressati. E se due madri si fermano con i figli in carrozzina a parlare al parco - che è già tanto che hanno trovato un momento di pausa - si lamentano e si piangono addosso e poi fuggono perché il tempo è finito.&lt;br /&gt;In Germania i genitori uscivano insieme con i bambini al parco tranquilli e beati, perché vivono nel benessere. I soldi contano fino a un certo punto, che lo si voglia o no. Magari qualcuno che ha fatto scout come me sa anche qualcosa a proposito di essenzialità, ma è una lezione per pochi e perciò chi non la conosce ha bisogno del benessere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lasciare casa fa riflettere su tante cose. La famiglia e il proprio essere adulto. Quanto tempo vogliamo spendere con i nostri genitori? Che vita vogliamo davvero per noi, ora che è possibile provarne una? I luoghi? Sono tutti uguali? E le persone? Le persone contano davvero. Se i luoghi fossero così importanti allora l'Italia sarebbe il migliore posto del mondo per vivere. Perché mite e bella come l'Italia ce ne sono pochi. La neve mi piace. E la Norvegia era bella. Le campagne della germania del sud sono molto pittoresche. Ma io credo che dal punto di vista naturale e paesaggistico l'Italia sia completa. E ci sarà un motivo se tutti vengono qua, mica sono proprio scemi.&lt;br /&gt;Andare a lavoro da riflettere molto, e su questo punto, a quest'età insisterei parecchio. Molti dei nostri compagni delle medie lavorano da un pezzo. Magari per loro è naturale e su certe cose non ci hanno mai riflettuto. Per noi tardoni universitari che magari cominciamo a percepire uno stipendio o un assegno di ricerca a 28 anni (all'estero è tutto un altro discorso), lavorare ormai non è più concepibile. E poi... azz ora non ho più tempo mi dispiace.&lt;br /&gt;A presto&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-7249907678191673795?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/7249907678191673795/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=7249907678191673795' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7249907678191673795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7249907678191673795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/04/alcune-riflessioni-di-huginn.html' title='alcune riflessioni di Huginn'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-7544745721796414476</id><published>2008-04-18T19:39:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-18T19:45:12.011+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Riguardo le elezioni</title><content type='html'>Riguardo le elezioni c'è poco da dire: il circo delle pulci... Tra indagati per mafia candidati al parlamento, un sistema elettorale da cancellare, l'idea anticostituzionale del "voto utile", la disinformazione più totale dei cittadini, partiti che promuovono l'aumento dell'acido ascorbico nella coca-cola e la riduzione dell'IVA sulle patatine al formaggio...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Direi volentieri "io emigro", se non fosse che le mie colline - piene di mezzi mafiosi, per carità, un certo sindaco adesso è indagato - sono proprio mie, quasi mie e sono splendide, per quanto sono e saranno sempre le stesse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E' che l'italiano sta diventando un animale da stress, e i giovani degli animali asociali co sto cazzo di internet, ma che ci sto perdendo tempo a fare?&lt;br /&gt;Ah, sì, perché Huginn e Muninn viaggiano sul serio... E vogliono raccontarvi qualcosa...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-7544745721796414476?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/7544745721796414476/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=7544745721796414476' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7544745721796414476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7544745721796414476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/04/riguardo-le-elezioni.html' title='Riguardo le elezioni'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-550095000083376309</id><published>2008-04-14T18:37:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-06T09:46:08.199+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elezioni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stronzate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='elections'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='citazioni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='minchiate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='italy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bestialate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vote'/><title type='text'>Elezioni... + quotation time</title><content type='html'>I risultati definitivi delle elezioni non sono ancora arrivati. Ma avevate forse dubbi?&lt;br /&gt;Avevate dubbi che l'Italia, di fronte a un momento di difficoltà, avrebbe votato chi ci ha messo nelle statistiche tra i "paesi semi liberi"? Avevate qualche dubbio che un ridicolo nano pelato avrebbe preso il potere ancora? Quante volte è già successo? Non abbiamo cominciato lo scorso secolo?&lt;br /&gt;Ma questa volta è diverso.&lt;br /&gt;Le ultime elezioni le avevo passate in veglia, con il pugno chiuso e il basco con la stellina, sperando.&lt;br /&gt;Queste elezioni le ho passate dormendo, curandomi di altri affari.&lt;br /&gt;La volta scorsa ho accolto i risultati con appresione e gioia. Questa volta ho solamente scosso la testa. Lo sa pevo già. Era ovvio, era scritto.&lt;br /&gt;Questa volta ho un rimpianto per i &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;kinsmen&lt;/span&gt; che ho lasciato in patria, e un respiro di sollievo poiché non sono in Italia. Ci dovrò tornare, lo so, ma solo per il tempo strettamente necessario.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Irlanda Ahern ha governato per 3 mandati, cambiando la faccia dell'Irlanda nel paese che io conosco.&lt;br /&gt;In Italia dopo un anno ci stufiamo del presidente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;QUotation time: this time from public toilets around dublin:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a condom machine: "Insert baby for refund"&lt;br /&gt;"Reading this is gives me official rights to rape your sister"&lt;br /&gt;"RIRA: really idiot really arrogant"&lt;br /&gt;"Piss in the urinal, faggot, I have to sit here!"&lt;br /&gt;"It's really amazing how many people bring pens in the toilet, isn't it?"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-550095000083376309?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/550095000083376309/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=550095000083376309' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/550095000083376309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/550095000083376309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/04/elezioni-quotation-time.html' title='Elezioni... + quotation time'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-941992677434570185</id><published>2008-04-10T23:35:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-04-10T23:40:23.627+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Quotation time</title><content type='html'>Yeeeeeh! It's again quotation time!!  The best quotations from Dublin everyday life:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Can I say Obla when you bang me?" from the game swish pang obla...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Bau bau, is it your nickname?" Christian... INAPROPRIATE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Write it in the numbers of finnish!" Perhaps some grammar inconvenience....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"if electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?" Remy, probably copie from somebody else, since he's a nasty frenchman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"no fucking old deluded man in a clown costume proclaiming to be the representative of some science fiction character should have anything to do with my right to choose" My wonderful angry Henna "hassu" Muhonen!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-941992677434570185?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/941992677434570185/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=941992677434570185' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/941992677434570185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/941992677434570185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/04/quotation-time.html' title='Quotation time'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-5539485953446881272</id><published>2008-03-10T15:14:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-06T10:13:03.011+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irish weather'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sun'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cd'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dublin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='korpiklaani'/><title type='text'>Irish weather - part 2</title><content type='html'>Today I went to the An làr, the city centre alone.&lt;br /&gt;It was one of those thick rainy days, in which it has been raining all night and all morning. Lovely. I went to the bus stop waiting for my number 10, that I luckily spotted and stopped for it was already going away.&lt;br /&gt;A short interlude in the bus reading "Kalevala" and here I am, O'Connel street.&lt;br /&gt;It's so different from the time in which I was there the first time. A sunny, hot day, in a hostile city.&lt;br /&gt;Today everybody was running, avoiding the stubborn rain. I walked forth and back under the rain, just to see people, their ordinary life, their disappointment. Dublin is a huge tabagist lung. It breathes, coughs sometimes.&lt;br /&gt;I entered Penneys, not much for shopping but to avoid the rain. I saw a green T-shirt "Why having a 6pack when you can have a barrel?". 4€. Bought!&lt;br /&gt;Then a bag of local potatoes from the market in Moore street. I went to Eason, but their CD collection sucks. They can't divide all music between "rock/pop" and "classic"!&lt;br /&gt;So I went to Grafton street. I stopped in another music shop. At least they have a metal corner. I bought "Tervaskanto" by Korpiklaani. Of course when I came out of the shop, the sun was shining, and Dublin taking a deep, happy breath.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Album's review:&lt;br /&gt;A brief research in my vocabularies tells me that Tervaskanto means "tar-stage" (palco di catrame) that is, of course impossible.  I'm hopeless in finnish...&lt;br /&gt;The booklet saves me, for they kindly translated all the lyrics and titles in english. Tervaskanto means "Resinous Stump". Well, I was close. It sucks anyway.&lt;br /&gt;The ablum opens with a song with an encouraging name "Let's drink". For sure this track is a Irish-finnish agreement. It's nothing special, short and happy. Then Tervaskanto. I jumped it, since I already knew it and in my opinion is the crappiest track of the album. Then Viima... this is breathtaking, at least for me, for I get so excited when I hear singing in suomi!&lt;br /&gt;Veriset äpärät... didn't they say they wanted to stop singing in finnish? anyway, a very restless happy and funloving song. Korpiklaani trademark.&lt;br /&gt;Finally a bit of rest - not much though - with an acustic intro to "Running with the wolves". After 30 seconds the lightspeed-fast beat starts again. The accordion is much more dominant in this album.&lt;br /&gt;Liekkjön isku: The revenge of Ljekkjö. DOn't worry, the 100hitperminute beat doesn't stop. But this turns in a more Humppa melody. Some nice choirs and a cool riff. Again the accordion is overdominant. The song as a whole is very cool, strongly adviced for emo-depressed-lazy people. Just don't mind about the lyrics: no matter what languages do you speak it just sounds as "humppa hummpa homppa hamppa".&lt;br /&gt;Tired? A bit of relax with "Palovana". Not much, but it's a bit slower. Finally guitars get again the  leadership. Wonderful, for Italian speakers, the refrain: Katso katso katso katso....&lt;br /&gt;This song tries to be a bit more serious of the usual "dance drink and smash tables" inspiration. Does it succed? Well, yes. Again some acoustic guitar, ending the song. I don't like the equalization though: too emphasis on high pitches.&lt;br /&gt;Karhukaatolaulu: I can't translate this myself: Hunting bear song. You know, Finns have a thing with bears. It's their sacred animal, or at least used to be. Again a "drink dance and smash more tables song", but with feeling in it.&lt;br /&gt;On we go, smashing tables for several minutes and songs, when we can be fascinated by the acoustic intro to "Vesilahden veräjillä". This song is sort of slow haunting and incredibly fashionable. The lyrics are about a real historical fact. A song of blood, for it tells about Kirmu, the lord of Vesilahti, disciple of Ukko. Well, this king didn't love preacher so much, for this traps Huntu, a preacher, that doesn't want to give up his Christian faith and for that his arms are torn away and he is left to painful death. This is by far the masterpiece of the Album.&lt;br /&gt;Then, end titles: we are left with a voiceless song, Nordic Feast. Quite fast, but more relaxing, with some whistles and stuff. A joyful song: everybody is drunk and all the tables smashed. Time to go home with joy. A very short serious part, and humppa humppa again!&lt;br /&gt;That's everything.&lt;br /&gt;I hoped in something more "kädeet siipina", but unluckily this is a happy album. Maybe too happy, but for this reccomended to emo-depressed-lazy suckers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hugin is coming to Dublin tonight, so that  the crows will meet again in the land of Ravens.&lt;br /&gt;May the northwind bring you good potatoes harvest.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-5539485953446881272?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/5539485953446881272/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=5539485953446881272' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5539485953446881272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5539485953446881272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/03/irish-weather-part-2.html' title='Irish weather - part 2'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-3223807667087169068</id><published>2008-03-07T16:31:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-07T16:51:55.884+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Irish Weather</title><content type='html'>This morning it was sunny and warm (for Irish standard). I thought I didn't need the big jacket... beside is just 2 minutes walk from my house to Newman building. "I'll bring my raincoat instead" I thought. It's small, you can fold it and put it in your bag. I thought I'd look a moron with a raincoat during a sunny day with no clouds. But I didn't care so I came out with sunglasses and raincoat.&lt;br /&gt;After half an hour inside Newman buliding I went to the post office. Outside it was still sunny but it rained a bit. Without clouds. Well... it happens in Dublin.&lt;br /&gt;The I spent the next hour inside Newman building, at a lesson. I had sun in my eyes for all the time.&lt;br /&gt;Finished the lesson I returned a book, it took me like 3 minutes and then I went back home. Outside the door there was a dark sky and heavy rain. Luckily, I had my raincoat. Though I needed to hold the hood for the wind was taking it off from my head.&lt;br /&gt;Now the sun is shining again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stamattina c'era il sole ed era caldo. Ho pensato quindi di non portarmi la giacca a vento, ma solo il mio raincoat o cerata o kway o come cazzo lo chiamate. E' piccolo, comodo, si piega e si mette in borsa. Ho pensato che sembravo un coglione con la cerata in una giornata di sole, ma me ne sono fregato e sono uscito con raincoat e occhiali da sole.&lt;br /&gt;Dopo mezz'ora dentro il Newman building sono uscito per andare alle poste. Piovigginava anche se c'era il sole. Niente nuvole. Succede a Dublino.&lt;br /&gt;Poi ho avuto un'ora di lezione, il sole mi ha accecato tutto il tempo. Infine sono andato in biblioteca (tutto al chiuso) per restituire un libro. Ci avrò messo 3 minuti. Quando finalmente esco per tornare a casa, fuori il cielo era nero e pioveva pesante. Fortunatamente, avevo il raincoat. Anche se dovevo tenere il cappuccio con la mano perché altrimenti il vento me lo portava via.&lt;br /&gt;Adesso il sole brilla di nuovo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-3223807667087169068?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/3223807667087169068/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=3223807667087169068' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3223807667087169068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3223807667087169068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/03/irish-weather.html' title='Irish Weather'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-6360915209949725065</id><published>2008-03-06T22:43:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-06T22:51:55.568+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Looking for Ireland - Part 2</title><content type='html'>This should be the part -1 since I've been in Killarney weeks before Glendalough. Anyway... here it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;                         &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Lo scorso fine settimana sono stato a Limerick e Killarney. Il viaggio pianificato e prenotato di fretta, qualche giorno prima. Tutto fatto  in maniera più economica possibile.&lt;br /&gt;La mattina mi sveglio, dopo festa e macello notturno, alle 6 di mattina. E' freddo e siamo già in ritardo: perdiamo il bus delle 8. Henna si è scordata di controllare nome e posizione dell'ostello. Fortunatamente in stazione c'è un computer con internet che per l'incredibile somma di 1€ ci fa controllare l'e-mail di conferma.&lt;br /&gt;Entriamo nel bus, dove finalmente ci si può riposare. Il tempo è osceno, buio e nebbioso, ma il paesaggio comunque piacevole.&lt;br /&gt;Fermata in una mini-stazione di servizio per pisciare. Freddo.&lt;br /&gt;Il bagno è freddo, l'acqua è fredda e, incredibile, l'asciugatore elettrico spara aria fredda!&lt;br /&gt;Ritorniamo al moderatamente tiepido bus, il viaggio continua.&lt;br /&gt;Infine arriviamo a Limerick. Facciamo un freddo pranzo con i panini che avevo portato, poi lasciamo le borse alla stazione degli autobus (2,50€, ladri) e giriamo per la città. Beh, la stab-city non è così emozionante, proprio come raccontano. Tuttavia  camminando vediamo una chiesa con cimitero, poi visitiamo il museo della contea (piccolo ma gratis) e infine il castello di re John. Quest'ultimo è effettivamente bello e ben curato. Poi si corre indietro alla stazione per paura di perdere l'autobus. CI perdiamo per le vie, ma alla fine troviamo la strada. A quel punto realizziamo che quelli che tengono le borse hanno chiuso per cena. Fanno pausa dalle 6 alle 6:30 e il nostro bus è alle 6:35. Quindi ci dividiamo e incrociamo le dita.&lt;br /&gt;Ottengo le nostre borse alle 6:29, giusto in tempo, poiché i bus della Bus Eireànn sono sempre molto affollati, ma i posti contati, per cui se non spingi per salire sei fottuto e rimani a piedi.&lt;br /&gt;Riusciamo anche a salire. Assetato, stanco e affamato sonnecchio nel bus.&lt;br /&gt;Non sono portato per i viaggi in bus. Ad un certo punto sono assalito dalla sete ma non ho acqua, dal caldo, dal desiderio di una doccia. Per fortuna non manca molto. Infine il bus ci scarica alla stazione di Killarney. Due passi e siamo nell'ostello. Ci affidano la stanza “Lion”, 6 letti ma per fortuna nessun rompicazzo. C'è una finestra sul tetto e non c'è tenda o persiana o sportellone. Bene, ci alzeremo presto. La camera è tutta di legno e sulla card per entrare c'è disegnata una croce celtica. Sì, sono in Irlanda.&lt;br /&gt;Pianifichiamo l'attività per il giorno seguente ed andiamo a dormire, sfiniti.&lt;br /&gt;Ci svegliamo presto, al suono della sveglia dell'orologio. Veloce doccia, colazione. Purtroppo non hanno salsicce, pudding, roba irlandese in generale. Solo pane burro e marmellata.&lt;br /&gt;Prepariamo gli zaini e partiamo: si va ad affittare le biciclette.&lt;br /&gt;Le prendiamo in un'altro Ostello, molto accogliente, tutto di legno, con il caminetto e un tipo svitato. Le bici sono Ok, costano solo 12€ a giornata. Unica condizione: riportarle prima delle 6.&lt;br /&gt;Così si parte. Panico: siamo nella città e dobbiamo guidare a sinistra! Con aria da turisti incapaci ci mettiamo in carreggiata. Io vado per primo, ma col mio senso dell'orientamento mi perdo: Henna prende la leadership. Pedaliamo a lungo ma alla fine troviamo l'entrata del parco: un paradiso di laghi e monti, foreste e prati che non può essere spiegato da un semplice racconto. Non c'è prosa che possa splendere come le acque del lago, essere misteriosa come la nebbia. Corriamo veloci sul dorso delle bici, fermandoci nei punti migliori, esplorando a piedi i capolavori della natura. Dopo lunghe ore abbiamo finito il giro principale. E' tardi, ma nonostante le gambe crampate decidiamo di vedere il Ross Castle. Il castello è sul lago e decidiamo che il giorno seguente vale la pena di esplorarlo il barca: c'è un'isola abitata, DENTRO il lago!&lt;br /&gt;Sta per scadere il tempo di affitto delle bici! Per questo corriamo – sfiniti – indietro al posto dove le abbiamo prese. Contro ogni previsione, arriviamo in tempo. Facciamo due passi  per la città, incerca di una pinta. I pub non mancano, ma Henna è così affamata – a ragione – che torniamo all'ostello. Prima però facciamo altri due passi. Incrociamo un “Celtic Bookshop” e un “Celtic music shop”. Entriamo in entrambi. Sono tentato di regalare a Leonardo un libro tipo “100 irish tunes” ma so che mi ammazzerebbe! Adocchio una cinta per chitarra con Celtic knots vari. Costa una cifra impronunciabile. Usciamo.&lt;br /&gt;Ci prepariamo la cena della cucina dell'ostello. C'è un australiano che cucina carbonara, ce ne offre un po'. Ottima! Racconta che da piccolo giocava con gli amici a rivoltare i serpenti con un bastone.&lt;br /&gt;Riposiamo le stanchissime gambe nel letto. Dormiamo pesante. Un'altro giorno arriva.&lt;br /&gt;E' domenica. Vorrei vedere la città, ma vorremmo anche vedere l'isola. Faremo in tempo a vedere entrambi. Ja paskat.&lt;br /&gt;Ci incamminiamo verso il parco, fermandoci un attimo alla cattedrale. Seguiamo un sentiero che indica “Holy well”. Dopo mezz'ora di Holy wells non c'è traccia, ma già che ci siamo proseguiamo per il Ross Castle.&lt;br /&gt;Infine arriviamo. Scopriamo che il traghetto non c'è, l'affittabarche è chiuso. Mannaggia alla bassa stagione. Tuttavia incontriamo due pescatori che imbarcano la gente. Su queste barchette a motore ci facciamo portare su e giù per i laghi. Il vento è gelido, schizzi d'acqua ci assaltano.&lt;br /&gt;Monti e rocce si riflettono sull'acqua immobile del lago, facendo perdere il senso della realtà. C'è un altro mondo dentro al lago, un riflesso del nostro, come per Platone il nostro era un pallido riflesso del mondo delle idee... Gli uccelli costruiscono nidi e ci guardano, dicendo “qua nessun uomo è stato!”&lt;br /&gt;Sbarchiamo. Degli sconosciuti ci salutano e ci chiedono “Lovely weather, isn't it?”&lt;br /&gt;C'è un fuoco freddo sotto l'Irlanda. Una potenza che la fa germogliare e proliferare. Una felice speranza che alimenta piccoli esseri in tane nel terreno. Una melodia nascosta.&lt;br /&gt;A passo veloce torniamo in città per prender il Bus. Rischiamo di perderlo ma ce la facciamo.&lt;br /&gt;La città non l'abbiamo vista.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Un prodigio si è compiuto.&lt;br /&gt;Pensavo che non si potesse amare più di una persona alla volta; ora amo Henna e Cathleen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Nota per i lettori: Cathleen ni Houlihan è l'impersonificazione dell'Irlanda, presente in ballate popolari e ripresa da Yeats nell'omonimo dramma.&lt;br /&gt;&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/556085913567246114-6360915209949725065?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/6360915209949725065/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=6360915209949725065' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/6360915209949725065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/6360915209949725065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/03/looking-for-ireland-part-2.html' title='Looking for Ireland - Part 2'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-7539813957153360318</id><published>2008-03-06T22:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-06T22:43:28.497+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Looking for Ireland</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Oggi sono stato a Glendalough, con il viaggio organizzato dall'International Office... si, proprio come il CRI di macerata...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Qualcuno dovrebbe spiegarmi perché in questi viaggi internazionali c'è sempre una nazionalità sproporzionatamente più numerosa e ogni volta una diversa: prima i malesiani, poi gli spagnoli, poi i tedeschi...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Ad ogni modo, il bus ci fa attraversare la solita amorevole campagna irlandese, inondata dal sole. Ci scaricano a Glendalough, un giro nel museo e presentazione, poi si va nel sito. Tra due colline, nel verde d'irlanda stanno nove edifici piccolini, qua e là, e un'alta torre. E miriadi di tombe e lapidi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Più in là c'è un grande lago. L'acqua scura contrasta con il giallo della vegetazione fatto risplendere dal sole. Il vento è così forte che sassi legati a corde volano come aquiloni.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Saliamo per il sentiero il paesaggio si trasforma: una foresta, una cascata, una palude, come se attraversassi stanze di un museo. Camminando la pioggia si sovrappone al sole, sottile, pioggia sole e vento e il lago si muove come il mare, ribolle come se un Kraken si stesse agitando nelle sue profondità. Cammino su enormi alberi caduti, ricoperti di muschio e di piccole piante che un giorno diventeranno esse stesse alberi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;L'irlanda è solo prati inglesi e pietre rotte, disse qualcuno. E laghi, aggiungo io. Ma più la guardo più mi innamoro di lei. Cathleen ni Houlihan, tanti anni porti sulle spalle ma il tuo volto ha una bellezza senza età.&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/556085913567246114-7539813957153360318?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/7539813957153360318/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=7539813957153360318' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7539813957153360318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7539813957153360318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/03/looking-for-ireland.html' title='Looking for Ireland'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-2594903546777186605</id><published>2008-03-03T12:33:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-03T12:34:47.135+01:00</updated><title type='text'>fondue est divertente</title><content type='html'>brevi manu: la fondue è come il tetris con il livello 1 (quello più facile).&lt;br /&gt;Vediamo se qualcuno la capisce...&lt;br /&gt;Burp!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-2594903546777186605?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/2594903546777186605/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=2594903546777186605' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2594903546777186605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2594903546777186605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/03/fondue-est-divertente.html' title='fondue est divertente'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-5845611708683297478</id><published>2008-02-22T23:56:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-23T00:29:43.058+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Abrodians</title><content type='html'>How weird is being abroad.&lt;br /&gt;You look down when you walk and you know every inch of the path, at least that's what I do when I go to newman building in the morning.&lt;br /&gt;And then you realize that it's soooo many miles from home. Like... thousands!&lt;br /&gt;But you are at home in a way. You say "I go back home" after lesson.&lt;br /&gt;Then a sudden pale fear assaults you when thinking you're far away from home. Then a rational warmth comes to your vein. "I'm in Ireland - I think - I'm home as never before".&lt;br /&gt;Dirty walls are clean and hills are mountains when I think I'm in Ireland. Colours are brighter and the rain... well it's just nice.&lt;br /&gt;I am abroad and in being a foreigner everything takes a special flavour. The flavour that a valley has when seen from the top of the mountain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I want to speak about two questions and two answers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 -"Where are you from?"&lt;br /&gt;     "I've been born in Lyon"&lt;br /&gt;2- "What's your name?"&lt;br /&gt;    "I'm A*****, from Germany"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where are we from?&lt;br /&gt;For the first person it was a matter of where are you born. For the second one, being german is as much important as the first name. Indeed we are all born and mostly raised in a place. That's were we are born. But then we can move and be something more.&lt;br /&gt;I've been born in Osimo. I lived in Osimo up for 19 years. For 19 years I had no foreign friends, I've never been abroad for more than 10 days.&lt;br /&gt;Today, I can't deny to be born in Osimo. But if somebody calls me "osimano" it upsets me.&lt;br /&gt;For Italian spoke my parents to me and indeed I know how to cook spaghetti, but today there's more in me.&lt;br /&gt;It's in a united europe I live and today I'm even a bit Irish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So to speak... another intelligent answer to the request "can we speak english?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I'm italian and I speak Italian".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Munin wishes you a good european and brotherous weekend, wherever you're from.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-5845611708683297478?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/5845611708683297478/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=5845611708683297478' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5845611708683297478'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5845611708683297478'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/02/abrodians.html' title='Abrodians'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-662914008694057159</id><published>2008-02-21T20:22:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-21T20:40:04.092+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Spreading the News</title><content type='html'>Who can tell me (without checking on wikipedia) who wrote the play in the title of this post wins incredible prizes!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My experimentation in cheap cooking go further. Tonight I had plain rice with curry, soy sauce, and the misterious "Sauce" that was in the fridge.&lt;br /&gt;The product was satisfying, especially because the quantity was considerable. Rice is so useful!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;L'altro ieri c'è stata la festa di compleanno di Trevor. Tutti conoscono Trevor: lo dimostra l'orgia di persone che erano dentro il suo appartamento. Il tema era “California” e lui, per dare il buon esempio, indossava solo il costume da bagno. Forse in California si gira nudi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;E' stata una festa enorme e magnifica. Di solito la gente sta per cazzi suoi, ma ieri, dovuto anche alla mancanza di spazio vitale, c'era abbastanza interazione. Una festa allegra, ubriaca (mai come quella volta dalle svedesi... c'era gente a cui ruotavano le pupille!) e molto amorosa, tanto che a un certo punto mi sono guardato intorno e tutti stavano parlando con una persona del sesso opposto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Si anche Christian Kramer!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;A quel punto succede il misfatto, cioè che io non avevo tasche, per cui ho lasciato le chiavi di casa a Henna. La quale ad un certo punto è scomparsa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Ora, immaginatevi un povero matto con addosso la calzamaglia di superman e una maglietta dei Led Zeppelin, nel freddo inverno Irlandese a cercare la propria ragazza e soprattutto la propria casa!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Viktoria mi ha prestato il cellulare, ma Henna non rispondeva. Allora le sono andato a bussare direttamente in casa. La porta era aperta ma non c'era nessuno dentro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;In quel momento le cose buttano in merda e comincio a vedermela brutta! Tremendi sospetti mi assaltano, mentre la festa si sfoltisce, la gente se ne va a casa e io, per la miseria, una casa non ce 'ho più! A quel punto ho ben pensato di andare a dormire a casa di Henna, se la porta era ancora aperta (come l'avevo lasciata).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;La porta è aperta e indovinate chi vi incontro? Si, Henna che esce dal bagno dopo una seduta di sbotto. Le porgo un bicchiere d'acqua e una pentola: la festa è finita, in bene.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Sorry for not translating... it's about Trevor's Party.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;It was his birthday, so he made a house party, theme California. That's why everybody was almost naked. People were quite drunk, even though not drunk hammered wasted, irish style. I still remember the guy at the swedish party whose pupils were going up and down separately...&lt;/p&gt;It was sooooo crowded, all UCD was there and at some point we were at least 50 people in the small flat!&lt;br /&gt;Then something bad happened to my keys, but maybe I'll tell this later...&lt;br /&gt;It was a loving party: at some point everybody was talking with somebody of the opposite sex... even Christian!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SO, Trevor, can you have two birthdays a year?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-662914008694057159?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/662914008694057159/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=662914008694057159' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/662914008694057159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/662914008694057159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/02/spreading-news.html' title='Spreading the News'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-365817745622389970</id><published>2008-02-20T21:02:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-20T21:14:42.845+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Peanut butter</title><content type='html'>Well, I written the post but everything fucking crashed and now i must write it again.&lt;br /&gt;Perkele saatana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fartmates&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Perché l'altro giorno Juan, entrando in cucina e vedendomi, si è sporto dalla finestra ed ha fatto un gesto di diniego ad un misterioso individuo al di fuori della casa? pensa che so cretino? E soprattutto, chi è questo oscuro personaggio così segreto che non posso vederlo?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Siamo tutti contenti che Clement scopa con una francese, ma perché deve lasciare la scatola di preservativi (quelli gratis che passava l'antiAIDS in centro mesi fa) sul tavolo della cucina?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try banas+peanut butter. It's cool&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-365817745622389970?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/365817745622389970/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=365817745622389970' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/365817745622389970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/365817745622389970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/02/peanut-butter.html' title='Peanut butter'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-7160915448821343545</id><published>2008-02-14T13:13:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-14T13:47:01.901+01:00</updated><title type='text'>la crescita</title><content type='html'>Ragazzi...&lt;br /&gt;vi scrivo un po' perché di lavorare in questo momento non ne posso più...&lt;br /&gt;Per carità, un po' di battute con il capoccia italiano, qualche battuta con gli altri, finalmente in questa settimana vengono pubblicate informazioni sul mercato sul quale in questi mesi ho lavorato... Ma questo lavoro in particolare in questo posto non mi piace.&lt;br /&gt;Qualche sera fa ho assistito ad un bellissimo concerto e mi sono reso conto che la mia strada non può separarsi dalla musica. Deve procedere in parallelo ad essa. Quanto mi aiuta la musica, quanto ne ho bisogno, quanto mi riempie lo spirito. E tutta la conoscenza che ho accumulato negli anni? No, non posso dimenticarmi da dove vengo.&lt;br /&gt;Ormai, per fortuna, di lavoro ne rimane davvero poco e nel futuro si prospetta una visita in Irlanda da Dani, e poi studio (matto e disperato...?) il ricongiungimento con le colline marchigiane e visite periodiche nella frazione bucolica di Donaurieden, dove dimora la persona che ha dato un senso a questi ultimi mesi e che ha determinato grossi cambiamenti e una crescita necessaria nella mia personalità. Sembra piuttosto drammatico detto così: è il mio amore. Beh spesso l'amore suona drammatico e ridicolo allo stesso tempo, maestoso e inurbano insieme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sto avendo un quadro un po' schematico, ma se non altro chiaro della mia esperienza.&lt;br /&gt;Dopo la preparazione iniziale, a casa, sono arrivato qui guardingo e allo stesso tempo favorevole a questa nuova realtà. Ho incontrato nuove persone, stretto amicizie e iniziato la nuova vita. Ero ancora uno da fuori a ottobre. A novembre è nato il lupo solitario: passato ottobre ospite di Fabiano mi sono spostato nella mia stanza e per tutto il mese non sono riuscito a incontrare praticamente nessuno. Mi sono rifugiato in me stesso e applicato sul lavoro.&lt;br /&gt;E' stato bello, la mia casina era confortevole e stavo bene. Ero sereno e vivevo come un lupo solitario, eccezion fatta per il contatto con amici e parenti su internet. Mentre camminavo ero tranquillo perché circondato dalle persone ma non legato a nessuno.&lt;br /&gt;Mi chiedo che sarebbe successo se avessi passato tutti questi mesi così?&lt;br /&gt;Sentivo la necessità di compagnia, di contatto fisico con qualcuno, come quando hai bisogno di prendere in mano una chitarra e suonare: ti manca qualcosa. Ma non era niente di preoccupante.&lt;br /&gt;Dopo un mese con pochissimi contatti con gli altri italiani qui in Ulm, una domenica arriva un messaggio da una delle ragazze qui, Carola, che infreddolita stava passando la giornata a tenere una mostra aperta. Dovevo andare a pattinare quel giorno con altre ragazze dello stesso gruppo di amici più tardi. Carola però mi mette in contatto con Suzanne per pattinare. Le altre mi danno sola. Suzanne mi fa conoscere Kathrin. E la vita cambia radicalmente.&lt;br /&gt;Era il 2 dicembre. Se novembre è stato il mese della calma e della ricerca di una solitaria pace interiore, dicembre è stato l'opposto: lo sconvolgimento, la rottura con la solitudine, con i miei orari confezionati, con i bus e con l'assessment: è il tempo della scoperta, della costruzione, del nuovo amore e del ritrovo con gli amici a Ulm che non vedevo da un mese.&lt;br /&gt;E' anche il tempo delle vacanze e della famiglia.&lt;br /&gt;Da capodanno invece inizia l'anno nuovo, sempre con lei, questa volta però non solo innamoratini, ma anche conviventi.&lt;br /&gt;Da gennaio sono cresciuto molto.&lt;br /&gt;Prima era solo dimostrare a me stesso che me la cavo, che so vivere da solo, che so lavorare e risparmiare.&lt;br /&gt;Tutte cose in cui me la cavo già egregiamente, ed è per questo che il tempo è scorso facilmente.&lt;br /&gt;Ma quando ci si scontra con la propria preparazione sul piano affettivo, sull'emotività, sulle scelte per il futuro e le proprie idee sulla vita adulta... allora cominciano i guai...&lt;br /&gt;Questo anno nuovo è cominciato con felicità impensabile, ma anche con un sacco di sfide.&lt;br /&gt;Maturare interiormente, tra amore, una convivenza molto stretta, e la consapevolezza del distacco, la necessità del ritorno, idee per il futuro, la necessità di far passare il tempo, la consapevolezza di non poter ottenere tutto subito, la capacità di lasciar passare il tempo, pensare al presente, non dimenticare il passato, non pianificare il futuro, ma facilitarlo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avrei tanto da scrivere, ma non ne ho il tempo.&lt;br /&gt;Avrei molto da riflettere, ma non ne ho la possibilità.&lt;br /&gt;Immagazzino lezione su lezione. Presto forse avrò il tempo di lavorarci su.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Intanto vivo. E per la prima volta sono felice di non avere piani e date.&lt;br /&gt;Felice, non tanto per vivere qui, non tanto per tornare in Italia. Felice per essere.&lt;br /&gt;So che non è per sempre. So che è dipendente da chi mi sta a fianco. So che è dipendente da me. So che è: mi basta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A presto.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-7160915448821343545?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/7160915448821343545/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=7160915448821343545' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7160915448821343545'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7160915448821343545'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/02/la-crescita.html' title='la crescita'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-1929692702003840352</id><published>2008-02-13T15:22:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-13T15:46:51.201+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ancora altro</title><content type='html'>...Nel frattempo il Centra nel Campus si è ampliato. Questo significa che ha un po' più di merda già pronta per studenti e che il latte adesso costa di più: 1.99€. Continuo poi a dire che dovrebbe essere processato per frode poiché non scrivono mai i prezzi della merce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Domenica sono andato a Malahide, con la International Student Society. Meeting al Trinity (strano luogo, lo ammetto!) e poi si va con il DART (o la DART?) direttamente alla suddetta città.&lt;br /&gt;Orbene si parte. Appena scesi dalla stazione di  Malahide, metà del gruppo si perde. O meglio, gli spagnoli si perdono. Vabbè, la furbizia è di quelle parti.&lt;br /&gt;PErdiamo altri elementi nella strada (10 minuti) a piedi per arrivare al Castello della famiglia Talbot. E' attorniato da un enorme parco, molto carino visto con la splendente luce pomeridiana. In Irlanda, quando il sole esce dalle nuvole, si riflette sull'erba con uno strano effetto.&lt;br /&gt;L'entrata del castello è 6,10€ per studenti. Io e Henna entriamo, gli altri si perdono nel negozio di souvenir.&lt;br /&gt;Il castello spazia tra le varie epoche, dal primo stabilimento dei normanni nel 1070 e qualcosa fino al 1960 (più o meno) quando l'ultima erede ha venduto il castello e si è ritirata nella tenuta familiare di Haiti, o forse era le Hawaii, no magari la nuova guinea... insomma, non mi ricordo, leggetevi una guida. Cmq in un posto che con l'irlanda non c'entra una mazza.&lt;br /&gt;Insomma, il castello è piccolo ma bello con gran mobilio e molti quadri. Special guest, un fantasma che tormenta occasionalmente gli abitanti.&lt;br /&gt;Usciti dal castello, scopriamo che il gruppo si è dileguato senza di noi. Eccoci alle solite....&lt;br /&gt;Abbastanza pissed of ci dirigiamo verso la costa, o Porto, se così si può chiamare.&lt;br /&gt;Riacchiappiamo il gruppo, che ormai gruppo non è visto che si sono persi tutti e saremo si e no 8-9 persone.&lt;br /&gt;Stanno tutti a Starbucks. Il clima gelido mi fa sorvolare i prezzi da rapina e così prendo la bevanda più economica: cioccolata calda standard, taglia piccola. Da notare che la taglia piccola si chiama "tall", quella media "grande" e quella grande "venti", non si sa perché.&lt;br /&gt;Insomma mi bevo la suddetta bevanda. Il gruppo ci abbandona ancora, tornano a Dublino.&lt;br /&gt;Ma l'ultima corsa del DART   è in tarda serata, per cui io e Henna restiamo. Dobbiamo ancora vedere la costa!&lt;br /&gt;Questa non è che un litorale melmoso abitato da un paio di gabbiani e barche, in fronte al quale sta una piccola isoletta erbosa completamente disabitata, che non dista più di 30 metri dalla riva.&lt;br /&gt;Prato inglese e pietre rotte, direbbe qualcuno. Ma quanto sono belle entrambe!&lt;br /&gt;Alla luce serale, la spiaggia è grigia come il mare, e l'isolotto di fronte sembra bagnato, come un pulcino uscito dal guscio. Un lieve vento gelido contorna l'atmosfera. Sono in Irlanda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il verbo essere indica staticità. Quando si è in un posto, si giace in coordinate X-Y.&lt;br /&gt;STARE è solo una posizione su un piano.&lt;br /&gt;Ma allora perché, quando sono in Irlanda, sono felice?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tornando a noi, sulla costa c'è il ristorante CRUZZO (TRUZZO per gli amici) e, meno chic, un altro ristorante italiano: CIAO.&lt;br /&gt;Incontriamo una scolaresca italiana che si fa riconoscere per il grande stile (no comment) e degli altri italiani che, consultati i prezzi del ristorante CIAO, se ne vanno borbottando.&lt;br /&gt;Vengo da una cultura cibaria. Se gli americani devono piantare la bandiera nei posti che visitano, io ci devo mangiare, per cui propongo alla mia compagnia di disavventure finlandese di cenare a Malahide.&lt;br /&gt;Ottimo piano.&lt;br /&gt;Dopo aver girato tutta la città, consultando i prezzi di ogni bettola, ci rendiamo conto che non si può avere neanche un primo a meno di 20€.&lt;br /&gt;Disperati, prendiamo la DART per Dublino e ceniamo nel solito buffet a 10€.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-1929692702003840352?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/1929692702003840352/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=1929692702003840352' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1929692702003840352'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1929692702003840352'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/02/ancora-altro.html' title='Ancora altro'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-8432951745496889817</id><published>2008-02-13T13:28:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-13T13:43:21.255+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Shopping</title><content type='html'>Caos e riassunti delle ultime settimane in ordine sparso poiché sono a lezione: intro to greek philosophy.&lt;br /&gt;Shopping, due settimane fa. 20€ a testa da aldi, cibo che ci basta per quasi 2 settimane.&lt;br /&gt;Vestiti da Pennys: scarpe, maglietta maniche lunge (cotone biologico) maglione, pantaloni, 5 paia di calzini,  belt e mutante "going commando". Penserete che ho speso una fortuna. 46€&lt;br /&gt;Come sia possibile non lo so, ma a quanto pare a Dublino ci sono 2 cose che costano poco: cellulari e vestiti.&lt;br /&gt;Specialmente i boxer sono fondamentale dopo che un paio si è aperto come un cancello...&lt;br /&gt;Sopravvivere a Dublino non è facile, da un punto di vista monetario, ma con qualche dritta si tira avanti. Specialmente quando un furbone da Kildare trova il modo di farti pagare 6 latte di Stonehouse quanto 6 di Druids... ma questa è un'altra storia che racconterò tra poco.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-8432951745496889817?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/8432951745496889817/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=8432951745496889817' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8432951745496889817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8432951745496889817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/02/shopping.html' title='Shopping'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-4705427518620409818</id><published>2008-02-04T08:54:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-04T09:22:05.002+01:00</updated><title type='text'>ctrl+alt+del, life restarted!</title><content type='html'>Life is tough, no way.&lt;br /&gt;Last week I lived the hell. Guys, I want to be clear. Now all is gone, because my parents lighted this corridor where I was dangling, in the dark, hurting my head against the walls, looking for an emergency door to open. When the light came again I was able back to see and walk straight. Today I'm here with the leather jacket my father dressed for years, with the scarf my mother made me with her hands, to remind me I'm not alone, to remind me I've roots that I cannot cancel. To remind me who I am, who gave me life, what give us life: that is, love.&lt;br /&gt;I thought what would have been other two months like this without this wonderful creature, nearly alone in Ulm.&lt;br /&gt;Even if sometimes makes me suffering because I know I have to go back to my house (yes, it's still my house) soon, is love that create life, and I am life. But to be life I have to love also myself, and that's why I can go on, because I can live also by my own, not binded to girls, family or objects or places. (Now I understand very well that 'a place is only a place, parting with friends is a sadness')&lt;br /&gt;Love, is something a jedi knight cannot afford.&lt;br /&gt;Now is all gone because my brother reminded me yoda's lessons: you mustn't bind to things, nor to people.&lt;br /&gt;Also Ulm is Pantha Rei.&lt;br /&gt;Probably also Osimo is Pantha Rei, but there things changes so slowly that you can't realize it.&lt;br /&gt;Always remember: also mountains breathe, but so slowly that we don't realize it in our so short lifes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So to close: Now life restarted!&lt;br /&gt;There is lot more to say but no time for it, no time even to write down to myself...&lt;br /&gt;I wish everyone a happy february, and wait to see all my friends soon!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-4705427518620409818?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/4705427518620409818/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=4705427518620409818' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/4705427518620409818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/4705427518620409818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/02/ctrlaltdel-life-restarted.html' title='ctrl+alt+del, life restarted!'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-8371038811719397154</id><published>2008-01-30T15:09:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-30T15:20:28.105+01:00</updated><title type='text'>There and back again</title><content type='html'>After a Christmas that has been crappy and a new years eve with few emotions, I've been overwhelmed by a disease that cancelled all my trips, my holidays, my confindence.&lt;br /&gt;The name of the disease still remains unknown. With no help from the bloody hospital and much from Henna I managed to recover. And now I'm in Dublin again.&lt;br /&gt;Many things have changed indeed. The bus fares are 10c higher, lessons are harder. Many left, like Davide, today, due to his father's health problems. And he won't be back.&lt;br /&gt;Some other changed even university, and is always so weird when you realize that is the last time ever that you'll se a face. I doesn't matter who is he/she, if you like him or not.&lt;br /&gt;Dublin is "Panta Rei".&lt;br /&gt;Yes, it's so weird to study greek philosophy again, after so many years, and in english.&lt;br /&gt;Dublin is Heraclitus' city. You'll never step on the same Liffey two times. Mainly because you would die for intoxication...&lt;br /&gt;It's hard to manage everything again: laundry, shopping, study, lessons, cooking, flatmates....&lt;br /&gt;But life goes on. Life shall go on! Especially in Dublin!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-8371038811719397154?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/8371038811719397154/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=8371038811719397154' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8371038811719397154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8371038811719397154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/01/there-and-back-again.html' title='There and back again'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-1071672778560674227</id><published>2008-01-15T12:51:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-15T13:15:02.421+01:00</updated><title type='text'>waiting to conquer spain under the red and white flag...</title><content type='html'>Hi folks!&lt;br /&gt;We are already in the middle of january... My birthday came and passed... With much noise and fun, with lot of tenderness from someone, with the usual distance from the colleagues that ate the cake in a while without any greeting, except from a few good ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The peak of the experience is now on the back, and the remaining time must not pass forgotten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some tips about germans:&lt;br /&gt;- german girls know how to drive (strange uh?)&lt;br /&gt;- there are no condom machines in the streets&lt;br /&gt;- but in every city at least one apotheke (pharmacies) must be open nighttime.&lt;br /&gt;- south germany is like our north italy - productive, and the north east is like our mezzogiorno... maybe with the difference that they don't have any Vesuvio where to throw garbage and no Vesuvio to throw people that throw garbage in the street...&lt;br /&gt;- a lot of austrian terms are different from the german ones and similar to italian, like "marmelade" for marmellata instead of konfituere... Yes we also have confettura, so ok, I took the wrong example... Entschudigung!&lt;br /&gt;- people care too much for their assets, like car, house, electronic gadgets, etc...They are too rich and sincerely I see something wrong with this. I see in some Italy, in the less modern one something really good, bound to discipline with money and goods, still appreciating simple things, and still being simple in the character, even if showing good manners... But I do know that the times of my mum's memories are past and I can't really distinguish between the new teens from any italian city and the ones from Ulm.&lt;br /&gt;- I want to state finally that in my opinion there are mainly two levels of knowledge of english here: very good and basic understanding. Someone really excels. In Italy there are two levels too: no knowledge and medium understanding, so the same, just a step lower. Germans are helped cos they have a language that sounds a bit nearer and surely share a bit of lexic with english. For me has been easier to learn german thanks to my knowledge of english and... Latin!!&lt;br /&gt;Yes, latin helps translating sentences and understanding grammar. And still some lexical background is shared with latin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taneli Perkele is still ill. He's been badly ill, and still is in bed for getting out from this. He's been at the hospital and I'm sorry I was far from him. Maybe he will like to tell us somthing soon about this Kafka-wise experience. I want to thank a lot Henna for the support to him, and for having come to Italy to ease him!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The map of Europe stands a few feet from me, attractive and disgusting...&lt;br /&gt;What has to be seen in the future?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S: I've been in Muenchen and I've a lot of new photos still to work on... Hope something will come soon!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-1071672778560674227?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/1071672778560674227/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=1071672778560674227' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1071672778560674227'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1071672778560674227'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2008/01/waiting-to-conquer-spain-under-red-and.html' title='waiting to conquer spain under the red and white flag...'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-2553987715971263852</id><published>2007-12-27T16:33:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-27T16:40:44.698+01:00</updated><title type='text'>meaningless post - meaningless times</title><content type='html'>Ulm est divertente...&lt;br /&gt;Era il nome di una festa splendida, l'ultima festa prima di Natale.&lt;br /&gt;Nell'indecisione di temi, di lingue, ho deciso che non scriverò niente.&lt;br /&gt;Se mi guardo allo specchio vedo solo un'immagine distorta e paurosamente colorata.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/R3PHRe5pT3I/AAAAAAAAAGE/L7u5x_vchBQ/s1600-h/delme.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/R3PHRe5pT3I/AAAAAAAAAGE/L7u5x_vchBQ/s320/delme.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5148677902181158770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-2553987715971263852?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/2553987715971263852/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=2553987715971263852' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2553987715971263852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2553987715971263852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/12/meaningless-post-meaningless-times.html' title='meaningless post - meaningless times'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/R3PHRe5pT3I/AAAAAAAAAGE/L7u5x_vchBQ/s72-c/delme.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-8071800300493792900</id><published>2007-12-24T15:25:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-24T15:51:26.980+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Quotation Time</title><content type='html'>This post will not be translated... quotations are just quotations!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Citazioni da tutto il primo semestre in ordine sparso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Can I put the dick on the table?" - Andrea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-"Do you know sburro?" Davide&lt;br /&gt;-"What is sburro?"&lt;br /&gt;-"Juan, do you know porn movies? Well, at the end..." Andrea explaining.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-"Ma le ragazze irlandesi non ti sembrano fatte tutte con lo stampo?"&lt;br /&gt;-"SiDavide, è la venticinquesima volta che me lo chiedi"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Che c'è da vedere in Irlanda? E' tutto un prato verde e pietre rotte" by Andrea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Te li faccio gli esercizi, ma poi tu cosa mi dai?" by Andrea&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Do you like sadomaso?" Kristian&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“ah italians! Pizza mandolino mafia! I know some words in italian: vaffanculo bastardo!” irlandese standard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Then I'm Jaegerschnizzel!" Kristian&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Do you do that often in Finland" Kristian, each five minutes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Cavalli... Ticoddiri!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Yes, is very difficult to know Irish people... talk to you later!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Sorry for my english, I'm spanish" - Juan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per ora è tutto, ci vediamo al prossimo quotation time quando me ne vengono in mente altre.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-8071800300493792900?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/8071800300493792900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=8071800300493792900' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8071800300493792900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8071800300493792900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/12/quotation-time.html' title='Quotation Time'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-2511627429057418676</id><published>2007-12-23T06:34:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-23T06:54:52.674+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Achille's Last Stand</title><content type='html'>Solo, ancora.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Solo poche ore mi separano dal mio aereo. Me ne sto qua, sveglio ancora per un po', in questo stato di sospensione, solo.&lt;br /&gt;Ho accompagnato Henna e Luca alla fermata dell'aircoach, che li porterà all'aeroporto e da lì, alle loro case.&lt;br /&gt;Per l'ennesima volta ho percorso la strada dalla fermata dell'autobus a casa. Solo.&lt;br /&gt;La strada che ha unito me e Henna ora la percorro solitario e non c'è neppure la volpe di belfield a tenermi compagnia. Neppure un corvo. Tutto è congelato. L'erba schricchiola sotto le scarpe. Non ho freddo, ben diverso problema mi assilla.&lt;br /&gt;Lo UCD è una città fantasma.&lt;br /&gt;Te la ricordi Maggie, l'americana? Era alla fermata. Torna a casa, per sempre.&lt;br /&gt;Non c'è mai tempo per salutare degnamente. Una parola, una stretta. “Hyvä joulua”, Merry Christmas, see you.&lt;br /&gt;Molti se ne vanno per sempre. Scott, Omar, Paola, Maggie... Altri torneranno dopo natale.&lt;br /&gt;Ma un giorno lasceranno lo UCD per sempre.&lt;br /&gt;Gente che va, gente che viene.&lt;br /&gt;Dicono che l'erasmus è tutta una festa. Beh, ultimamente è stato molto più simile a un funerale.&lt;br /&gt;Il ragazzo che suonava l'ukulele che vedevo tutti i giorni dalla finestra non tornerà più.&lt;br /&gt;Ho sempre vissuto in Osimo. La gente restava. Solo i morti se ne andavano, genericamente con un breve rito e poche lacrime.&lt;br /&gt;Qua a Dublino la gente di cui ti innamori un giorno può scomparire quello seguente, su un aereo. Anche io me ne scomparirò un giorno, lasciando il posto che chiamo casa. Belgrove.&lt;br /&gt;Belgrove non è un residence, è una creatura. Dal lento respiro. Oggi Belgrove è solitario, chiuso nel suo gelo, dimenticato. Poche anime battono i loro cuori nel suo ventre, molte delle quali stanno per partire in breve.&lt;br /&gt;Guardo ancora le foto appese al muro, che segnano la mia camera come pietre miliari. Me ne sto andando, dico loro. Tornerò presto.&lt;br /&gt;Italia mi attende. Italia mi guarda con impazienza e al suo sguardo io tremo.&lt;br /&gt;Quando hai due case, non importa quale sia più importante per te: lasciare una per l'altra è sempre una sofferenza. Polvere si poserà su polvere, prima che io torni ad abitare qui. Tutto è immobile, congelato.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Solo la tiepida speranza delle numerose coppie interculturali vive, nel ghiaccio dell'inverno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;          &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;People go, people come. There is never enough time to say goodbye properly. A word, a hug. “Hyvä joulua”, Merry Christmas, see you.&lt;br /&gt;Many people leave forever. Scott, Omar, Paola, Maggie... Other will be back after Christmas.&lt;br /&gt;But one day they will leave UCD forever.&lt;br /&gt;They say Erasmus is all about parties. Well, lately it has been more like a funeral. The guy that played the Ukulele that I always saw from my window will never be back.&lt;br /&gt;I always lived in Osimo. There, people stays. Only deads leave, usually with a brief rite and few tears.&lt;br /&gt;Here at Dublin, people with whom you fall in love one day can disappear the following, on an airplane. I will disappear as well one day, leaving the place I call home. Belgrove.&lt;br /&gt;It is not a residence. It's a creature. Today it is lonely, closed in its frost, forgotten. Few hearts beat in his womb, many of which will leave soon as well.&lt;br /&gt;I watch the photos hanged to the wall, that are signposts of my realm. I'm leaving, I say to them. I'll be back soon.&lt;br /&gt;Italy waits me. Italy looks me with impatience and at its gaze I tremble of fear.&lt;br /&gt;When you have two homes, it does not matter which one is more important to you: leaving one is always painful. Dust will lay on dust, before I will live here again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Only the warm hope of the many international couples lives, inside the winter's frost.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Munin&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-2511627429057418676?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/2511627429057418676/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=2511627429057418676' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2511627429057418676'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2511627429057418676'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/12/achilles-last-stand.html' title='Achille&apos;s Last Stand'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-966288822969551286</id><published>2007-12-23T06:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-23T06:33:58.412+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pint'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irishness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='celt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pinte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='banjo'/><title type='text'>Irishness - part 2</title><content type='html'>Un post che avevo scritto giorni fa, ma pubblico solo ora:&lt;br /&gt;      &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Ieri sono andato in centro con Henna. Ci siamo fermati per una pinta al the Celt. Bel posto, non nel mainstream (temple bar) ma stile irlandese, con musica live tutti i giorni.&lt;br /&gt;Tre uomini già belli canuti con banjo, chitarra, ukulele e flauto erano le star della serata.&lt;br /&gt;E' stato proprio come me lo immaginavo prima di partire. &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Pinta, Irish coffee, pinta...&lt;/span&gt;Ed hanno anche suonato rocky road to Dublin! &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Certo pero non avrei mai immaginato di andarci con una ragazza finlandese.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi sono sentito veramente in Irlanda. Perché non basta una Guinness e un cretino vestito da Leprechaun. L'Irlanda, l'angolo a nord-ovest dell'europa (ok, tecnicamente c'è l'Islanda, ma suvvia...), un posto in cui tutti vanno, un posto di cui tutti credono di sapere tutto, ma un paese ancora segreto.&lt;br /&gt;Si, Irish, coffee, Guinness, prati verdi e gente amichevole. U2. Questo è ben noto a tutti. E anche della guerra e IRA si fa un gran parlare. Ma cosa sappiamo veramente?&lt;br /&gt;Beh quella sera al Celt c'erano veramente pochi stranieri, l'atmosfera era buona.&lt;br /&gt;Quella sera mi sono sentito veramente Irish. E troppo vicino al volo che mi porterà a casa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Yesterday I went to the Celt with Henna. We stopped for a pint at “the Celt”. Good place, non in the overcrowded temple bar, but Irish style, with live music every day.&lt;br /&gt;Three men with mostly white hair and a few years on their backs, guitar, banjo and whistle were the star of the night.&lt;br /&gt;It was just as I imagined before coming to Ireland. Pint, Irish coffee, pint, music... and they even played “Rocky road to Dublin”. But I had never imagined to go there with a finnish girlfriend.&lt;br /&gt;I felt to be in Ireland. Because a Guinness and a moron dressed as a Leprechaun is not enough. Ireland, the North-west corner of Europe (ok maybe it should be Iceland but...), a place in which many go, which everybody thinks to know everything about, but a still a secret country.&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, Irish coffee, Guinness, Whiskey, green lawn and friendly people. U2. Everybody knows it. And people talk much also of the 'war' and IRA. But what do we really know?&lt;br /&gt;Well yesterday at the Celt there were very few foreigners, the atmosphere was good.&lt;br /&gt;That night I felt Irish. And too near to the flight that will bring me back home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S.: for bilingual guys: the translation can be not exact sometimes, just because I want it to be.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-966288822969551286?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/966288822969551286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=966288822969551286' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/966288822969551286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/966288822969551286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/12/irishness-part-2.html' title='Irishness - part 2'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-6626081850097394701</id><published>2007-12-19T18:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-19T19:13:13.195+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Weihnachts ist nähe</title><content type='html'>Dear friends,&lt;br /&gt;seems like some time has passed, uh?&lt;br /&gt;I was too much occupied falling in the eyes of my schatzi Kathrin, and found out at the last moment december was going to finish soon bringing with it all the delights.&lt;br /&gt;Anyway I´m going to be back in Italy soon, just a couple of workin´day and I´ll be in Ancona again for the late saturday.&lt;br /&gt;I hope to see all you friends even if I´m probably staying in Italy less than expected and still have some opens about New year´s eve.&lt;br /&gt;I would have never expected to be so in love with this country and this weird city...&lt;br /&gt;See ya mandolino guys soon!&lt;br /&gt;Yours&lt;br /&gt;Huginn&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-6626081850097394701?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/6626081850097394701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=6626081850097394701' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/6626081850097394701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/6626081850097394701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/12/weihnachts-ist-nhe.html' title='Weihnachts ist nähe'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-784212127818868319</id><published>2007-12-17T14:56:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-17T15:13:27.629+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Merry Christmas! Ndugulu!</title><content type='html'>News? Nothing special.&lt;br /&gt;I have an exam in a few days, I just had one and I should study now.&lt;br /&gt;I don't know why but I just feel that at UCD I can have more instruction, in less time and with less stress. All more organized.&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, here you can actually &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;choose&lt;/span&gt; some modules. Not like in Macerata that you must do the only one that fits your schedule, and you'll have the other one in your phd or postgraduate, insomma "specialistica".&lt;br /&gt;You have a library; time; essays to write. The knowledge is there, all you can possibly want. Go and take it. Please. You also have free internet connection.&lt;br /&gt;You don't have to travel the world with teleport and find the seven dragonballs to find your teachers. An e-mail is fine and you'll be replied in a few hours.&lt;br /&gt;The problem of UCD is money.&lt;br /&gt;You have to pay if you don't pass exams. You have to pay to enroll. You have to pay to change modules (sometimes). Of course in Italy we pay university as well, but not in all countries. An example? Again.... Finland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, surfing randomly the web I found a blog. I don't know the guy, I just know he's from USA, but I found this pretty interesting:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I’m not a viking, and neither is anybody I know. That said, maybe we could learn a little something from these stalwart Norsemen. For one, Vikings didn’t get “depressed,” at least not according to the vast stores of viking lore that I’ve amassed by searching for “runes” on Google. A Viking feels down, he just rides a fucking wolf into a burning Troll village. Today? We get sad and it becomes a lifestyle. Seriously! There’s a whole industry set up around people who “just aren’t feeling it Today.”  &lt;p&gt;Therapists? Yeah, yeah. But that’s the easy one. Think about this: &lt;em&gt;Netflix is just Blockbuster video for dudes too sad to leave the house. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;If you’re anything like me you just inhaled sharply, bugged your eyes out, and mouthed “Oh my God,” because, shit, you never thought of it that way before. &lt;em&gt;And neither did I, until just now. &lt;/em&gt; But the point is this: depression has totally sold out. It no longer makes you pitiable, it just carves you into another wafer thin slice of the pie - no, pie &lt;strong&gt;chart&lt;/strong&gt; that rich dudes get to eat. And that’s lame. Vikings would get so pissed off about that shit that they’d totally find the rich dudes’ village (Westlake Hills) and &lt;strong&gt;raze it to the fucking ground."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.indianchiefblowers.com/?m=200705"&gt;See the blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Hey man, that's bloody true. Depressed people are not different, just customers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Think about emo bands, black clothes, sad music and movies; pills; What about shopping, for those who are not depressed but &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;unsatisfied&lt;/span&gt;. And chocolate.&lt;br /&gt;What do you do if you feel a bit down? WHy not goin' out and buy something?&lt;br /&gt;Bloody hell, isn't it frightening?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Luckily I'm oversatisfied now. And, voi perkele, I will not be sad anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-784212127818868319?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/784212127818868319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=784212127818868319' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/784212127818868319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/784212127818868319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/12/merry-christmas-ndugulu.html' title='Merry Christmas! Ndugulu!'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-8340546054031742629</id><published>2007-12-07T14:40:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-07T14:43:38.550+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Is ireland different?</title><content type='html'>Volevo scrivere un post, ma per oggi ho trovato questo articolo sul sito dello UCD che riassume molte cose che penso:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I Wanted to write a post, bu today I found this article on UCD's website that summarises many things I thought:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ucd.ie/news/0712_december/061207_global_ireland.html"&gt;Is Ireland Different?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway I still think that the answer is yes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-8340546054031742629?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/8340546054031742629/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=8340546054031742629' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8340546054031742629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8340546054031742629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/12/is-ireland-different.html' title='Is ireland different?'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-5604705223585436606</id><published>2007-12-04T20:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-12-04T21:15:48.251+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='taoism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eastern'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='philosophy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='western'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ontologies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='koan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meditation'/><title type='text'>T-I-M-E</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/R1W0CYTwreI/AAAAAAAAAF8/ZmEfNTWJU3E/s1600-h/palace+of+my+voice+%28reflecting+on+the+lake%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/R1W0CYTwreI/AAAAAAAAAF8/ZmEfNTWJU3E/s200/palace+of+my+voice+%28reflecting+on+the+lake%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5140212502691360226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time. What's time?&lt;br /&gt;Think at it just as a dimension in an n-dimension space. There is not better if you want to talk about it with out flying in the clouds.&lt;br /&gt;BUT what I &lt;think&gt; -THINK- about time is not so important and interesting since there's ton of phisicians and poets out there chatting about it.&lt;br /&gt;Maybe I want to talk about what I -&lt;feel&gt;FEEL- time is.&lt;br /&gt;I don't feel time. I just feel it as a word. There are some illumination moments which let me feel it as something more consistent than just a concept.&lt;br /&gt;But basically I don't regard time as a major problem, nor a major concept for any philosophical discussion.&lt;br /&gt;It's because I'm getting more and more like what I should be, a living being, or call it an animal.&lt;br /&gt;Because when we are humans we don't live, we are not binded to the present. We are just a nightmare of concepts, ontologies, and bijective or surjective interactions, look-up tables and a lawier archives.&lt;br /&gt;What does mean meditation in eastern conceptions?&lt;br /&gt;Just this: unbinding from concept and thought. Killing thought and forget for a while our actual status.&lt;br /&gt;And as usual we use the term in an awkward way: meditation for us is focusing the rational thought on a single point. Absolutely the opposite as it should be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Time, what is time?&lt;br /&gt;I live.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is my koan for today.&lt;br /&gt;Is also what I definitely feel time to be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sincerely and freely yours.&lt;br /&gt;Huginn, the pizza-mandolino guy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/feel&gt;&lt;/think&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-5604705223585436606?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/5604705223585436606/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=5604705223585436606' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5604705223585436606'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5604705223585436606'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/12/t-i-m-e.html' title='T-I-M-E'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/R1W0CYTwreI/AAAAAAAAAF8/ZmEfNTWJU3E/s72-c/palace+of+my+voice+%28reflecting+on+the+lake%29.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-8648802781016903239</id><published>2007-11-27T19:27:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-27T19:41:30.932+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='foto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='scoperte'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulm'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tai-chi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='concerto'/><title type='text'>interesting discoveries...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/R0xkEn_hQCI/AAAAAAAAAF0/VSpoLPKLsUI/s1600-h/minchiata.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/R0xkEn_hQCI/AAAAAAAAAF0/VSpoLPKLsUI/s200/minchiata.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137591305540550690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi guys, it's been days...&lt;br /&gt;Some news...&lt;br /&gt;Prima di tutto, ora ho un nuovo amico in azienda, studente come me che sta facendo il tirocinio. E' un simpatico pirla, che non sa fare niente, e non ha nessuno che lo segue tranne me, e ci stiamo divertendo molto insieme. D'ora in poi lo chiameremo Posacenere Gandalf, come del resto facciamo di continuo in azienda.&lt;br /&gt;Some discoveries: il mio manager tedesco Frank è appassionato di fotografia su film, e abbiamo parlato molto. Mi piace il suo stile e la sua idea fissa di usare un 24mm, un grandangolo, per mostrare la vita come la vede l'occhio umano, circa 85° gradi.&lt;br /&gt;Invece il cinese, Gu pratica tai-chi nel parcheggio dopo pranzo. Prenderei lezioni da lui se solo non fosse dannatamente freddo fuori.&lt;br /&gt;Ivan è stato da me a pranzo con la ragazza e poi siamo andati a sentire un collega in concerto, che oltre a suonare il sax, mi dicono dalla regia che suona il flauto di pelle. Ora non so come matchare questa dichiarazione con il bebè che tiene come sfondo del desktop. Desiderio di maternità? O è tutto un misunderstanding?&lt;br /&gt;Il concerto comunque è stato molto bello. Immaginatevi una frazioncina sfigata di Ulm, tipo Polverigi, che si chiama Nersingen. Beh a differenza nostra non si fanno mancare neanche lì un bel auditorium con buona acustica e almeno 300 posti a sedere. I tedeschi non sono affatto serii. Ficcano battute ovunque, anche nella presentazione dei brani. Questo è indice di squilibrio. O forse semplicemente hanno un pessimo humour. Non dimenticherò mai in hotel quella trasmissione tv in cui un pirla vestito da cretino palpava il culo a un suino... Pessima serata. Molto peggio degli happy tree friends!&lt;br /&gt;I bis erano preparati... tedeschi...&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, è stata una splendida domenica.&lt;br /&gt;Maybe some photos soon. Or later. Or never. (per ora vi basti quella su in alto)&lt;br /&gt;Some other excerpts from my everyday life?&lt;br /&gt;Sto pensando di passare un giorno o due in un fine settimana in un paesino a qualche kilometro da Ulm, oppure di andare a stuttgart. Sto anche pensando di comprarmi una chitarra a 29€ se non fa proprio schifo, ce l'hanno al supermercato e magari una buona volta posso riprendere a suonare qualcosa. Non sapete quanto mi manca il contatto fisico con uno strumento musicale. E' una sensazione come quella che si prova quando ti manca una persona che ami, è un bisogno di contatto fisico.&lt;br /&gt;Finalmente sono arrivati i soldi del primo stipendio, sono tanti e soprattutto maggiori di quelli che ho speso finora per le spese quotidiane. Eh sì sono un bravo massaio, o come si dice spesso, un uomo da sposare. Cioè quello sfigo che all'occasione opportuna si lascia per un altro che "bestemmia, si droga, picchia i bambini e soprattutto non mi caga" (EELST: un vangelo, un perché, un per come, e anche un perfiloepersegno!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sto scoprendo Ulm, piano piano, di fine settimana in fine settimana (eh gli altri giorni vivo per mr.Paulo HotelPini). Ricordate su Age of Empire quando si avanza sulla cartina e si scopre la nebbia? Uguale. Vado in una direzione e scopro dei posti nuovi. E veramente ci sono dei posti stupendi. Nel pomeriggio che scurisce mi perdo a tal punto che quando torno a casa mi sento in una nuova casa, in un nuovo posto, complice il buio, ho finto di essere in un altro posto e per qualche ora ancora ci vivo dentro.&lt;br /&gt;Vorrei tanto avere la macchina e poter scoprire un sacco di nuovi posti, fuori, laghi, campagne e boschi. Ma non sarà così, credo che questo viaggio mi insegnerà la dimensione dell'uomo: camminare, muovere passi lenti. Scopri il mondo in una maniera più profonda così. Puoi pensare e scoprire nuove cose. Serendipity: it will never happen while driving a car. Not to me at least.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, now just a month stands between me and my vacation/holidays. Sarò in Italia dal 22. Poi tornerò qui tra il 6 e il 7.&lt;br /&gt;What else? Se qualcuno vuole farmi visita ne approfitti. Ce n'è di roba da vedere, non sarà Nuova York però...&lt;br /&gt;Ancora non so se finirò l'internship a fine febbraio o metà marzo, dipende.&lt;br /&gt;Comunque mi sto divertendo un casino (soprattutto adesso che ho uno sotto di me igh igh) e adesso che sto mettendo le mani su faccende più hardware-level sono gasatissimo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Probably there should be something more, but I can't remember.&lt;br /&gt;Fuck the british army.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sincerely yours,&lt;br /&gt; Huginn&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S: Just a note. Don't forget about my photo spaces:&lt;br /&gt;---&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/leopardsanderson/"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/leopardsanderson/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.photorevolt.com/utenti_id_4191.html&amp;amp;sub=foto"&gt;http://www.photorevolt.com/utenti_id_4191.html&amp;amp;sub=foto&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&gt; &lt;a href="http://moogblog.leonardo.it/foto"&gt;http://moogblog.leonardo.it/foto&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-8648802781016903239?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/8648802781016903239/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=8648802781016903239' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8648802781016903239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8648802781016903239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/11/interesting-discoveries.html' title='interesting discoveries...'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/R0xkEn_hQCI/AAAAAAAAAF0/VSpoLPKLsUI/s72-c/minchiata.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-8224817416734492154</id><published>2007-11-24T22:26:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-24T23:06:06.254+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sind sie Italiener?</title><content type='html'>Cercherò quando possibile (compatibilità di tempo...) di continuare a postare in doppia lingua. Magari se il post non è importante in italiano oppure sono in inglese (che tanto lo capite tutti, moroni!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi sono stato a Dublinia, bel posto per history geek come me.&lt;br /&gt;Ogni tanto ho flash di casa... ogni tanto il mare mi chiama... incredibile come tutto il mondo di Osimo che era vitale e onnipresente ora sia lontano come un sogno dimenticato per metà...&lt;br /&gt;Sfortunatamente questo sogno lo dovrò ricordare a natale, quando tornerò a casa... e poi si va in Finlandia, dove il freddo e più acuto, e vedrò se c'è un paese nel quale posso vivere.&lt;br /&gt;E poi di nuovo a Dublino.&lt;br /&gt;C'è poco da dire, mi piace Dublino... sono un ragazzo di campagna, me la cavo meglio a innaffiare che ad attraversare strade affollate, eppure mi sono adattato. Tutto mi sembra normale. Vedo l'immensa Dame street e la comparo con il corso di Osimo... vedo il vicolo di fronte Ha'penny bridge e lo comparo con osimo... Si può forse fare un confronto?&lt;br /&gt;Juan, il mio amorfo coinquilino, comincia a mostrarsi simpatico, mi offre prelibatezze quando ne ha. Il francese invece è un figlio di puttana come al solito e mi mette la musica a palla la notte col suo nuovo stereo e invita amici in casa mia senza dire nulla... gli romperò il culo un giorno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will try whenever possible to post both in italian and english. If the matter is not important I will post only in italian or only in english (come, on, I know all of you can read it, morons!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I've been at Dublinia, good place for history geeks as me. At the entrance (and at the&lt;br /&gt;shop at the end of the tour :|) there was a friendly beardy guy.&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes I have flashes of home... sometimes the sea calls me. It's unbelievable how the world of Osimo that was so vital, and ubiquitous now is far like a dream half forgotten...&lt;br /&gt;Unluckily I will have to remember that dream at Christmas when I will come back home... and then to Finland, where the cold is piercing and I'll see if there is a country in which I can live.&lt;br /&gt;And then back to Dublin.&lt;br /&gt;Nothing to say... I like Dublin. I'm a country boy, I'm better at watering plants than crossing crowded streets, but I got used to everything (yes, even cheddar and potatoes). Everything sounds normal. I see the huge Dame Street and I compare it to Osimo's main road. I see the alley in front of Ha'penny bridge and compare it to Osimo... Is it possible to do a comparison?&lt;br /&gt;Juan, my amorph flatmate has started speaking to me and sometimes offers food. Instead the french is a son of a bitch as usual and plays high volume music the night and makes parties without telling us. I will kick his ass one of these days.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-8224817416734492154?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/8224817416734492154/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=8224817416734492154' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8224817416734492154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8224817416734492154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/11/sind-sie-italiener.html' title='Sind sie Italiener?'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-7361690938471139879</id><published>2007-11-23T17:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-23T18:13:50.006+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Voi Perkele!!!</title><content type='html'>Yesterday I went to the library... It's still amazing the quantity of book they have. I wandered aimlessy as usual, and I found "A brief history of Finland"... Of course I borrowed it.&lt;br /&gt;Is there a part of knowledge that UCD has not?&lt;br /&gt;I just discovered that as an Erasmus I should have a tutor... which of course I don't have. Of course french people do...&lt;br /&gt;Why there is always something nasty about being italian?&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, luckily I don't need one... I mean... do you know UNIMC? Nobody even tells you when the lessons are or even the exams!&lt;br /&gt;Anyway everything is going well for now, except that my girlfriend keeps teasing me and that I will not pass the Old english exam (though I AM BEOWULF so i should speak it quite well... oh shit Beowulf was a bllody swede....).&lt;br /&gt;Ok now My girlfriend is really teasing me, so goodbye!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Munin&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-7361690938471139879?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/7361690938471139879/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=7361690938471139879' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7361690938471139879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7361690938471139879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/11/voi-perkele.html' title='Voi Perkele!!!'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-1788092409817365333</id><published>2007-11-22T15:30:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T19:30:47.266+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='maps'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='memories'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dublin'/><title type='text'>Feelings...</title><content type='html'>When I was a kid I liked to look at maps of the world. I liked to watch how big it was. Too big to see it all.&lt;br /&gt;Anyway there was no sense in seeing it all. The world is pretty much all the same: cities, roads, filthy cities, deserts and mountains sometimes. The world of men.&lt;br /&gt;"tutto il mondo è paese" we say in italian.&lt;br /&gt;It is incredible how Dublin can look. This is a grey day, with clouds everywhere, much humidity, no rain. In such a strange way memories of the past come to me but they seem to fade... are they real? How can they be real, if they happened so far in time and space?&lt;br /&gt;Other memories become stronger, and I don't know why now that sunset in Tonsberg seems to be happened yesterday.&lt;br /&gt;Strange feelings mingle when you study italian literature in Ireland. When you eat cheddar and for a single moment it tastes like caciotta.&lt;br /&gt;Each place we live in, a new life we have. Yes, maybe is possible to escape the ghosts of our past.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Munin&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-1788092409817365333?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/1788092409817365333/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=1788092409817365333' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1788092409817365333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1788092409817365333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/11/feelings.html' title='Feelings...'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-5083707530247009234</id><published>2007-11-19T12:25:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-19T14:44:02.148+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Dictionary of Daniele's life - other ideas</title><content type='html'>Mi è venuta la perversa idea di raccogliere pensieri sotto la forma di glosse di parole fondamentali nella mia vita attuale:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Henna: la mia nuova ragazza. Sto superando lo choc culturale poiché non appartiene neppure al gruppo indeuropeo.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Belgrove: la mia casa. La mia vera casa. Affolato, sporco, folle ma carino. Pieno di corvi, bei cortili. Qui si svolge primariamente la mia vita sociale, qui mangio e parlo, qui dormo.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Newman Building: questo palazzo in congiunzione con la biblioteca, mi da molta soddisfazione. Qui si svolgono le mie lezioni. Immenso ma semplice e organizzato, dopo le 5 diventa vuoto e silenzioso e ha qualcosa di magico. Devo ringraziare il fatto che sia pieno di cessi.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;UCD: la mia università. Un immenso campus, una piccola città. Qualunque cosa tu voglia sapere, qualcuno la insegna.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Dublino: La mia città. Sebbene sono una creatura selvatica, mi ci sono abiutato. Comincio a conoscerla, comincio ad amarla. Amo camminarci. Amo squadrarla, considerarla, cercare di capirla e spero un giorno di riuscirci. Un posto isolato dal mondo, un posto umido, un posto dove mille e ancora mille italiani hanno cercato rifugio. Perché questo sta accadendo: stiamo fuggendo dall'italia. E L'irlanda è una delle sponde più feconde per noi.&lt;/p&gt;       &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Irlanda: paese di poeti e guerrieri, folletti e magia, una verde terra incantata. Questo dicono i volantini pubblicitari. L'irlanda è un'altra. Una terra così umida e lontana che pure i Romani si sono rifiutati di conquistarla. Un posto con più mucche che persone in cui però si produce un solo tipo di formaggio: il cheddar.&lt;br /&gt;Questo paese si è sollevato dalla povertà con uno strattone, e ancora la gente è folle per questo. Uno studente irlandese può spendere 20€ per un pomeriggio in un pub e altri 100€ per la serata. Viaggiano col taxi quando ci sono gli autobus. Insomma, qualche rotella l'hanno persa vedendo tutti i soldi in un solo colpo quando i loro padri mangiavano patate con la buccia.&lt;br /&gt;Una terra divisa in tre: irlanda del nord (UK), Dublino e il resto dell'irlanda.&lt;br /&gt;Gente che si sa arrangiare, ma che sa essere più gentile degli italiani. Gente che non è razzista, se ne sbatte degli immigrati, se ne sbatte di tutto.&lt;br /&gt;Il paese col più alto consumo di alcohol in europa. E questo è un po' il problema dell'irlanda. Ma i loro nonni bevevano. I loro avi erano fieri di tracannare più sidro di quanto ne potesse entrare nelle loro pance. Che diritto abbiamo di prendercela con loro?&lt;br /&gt;Tuttavia i volantini hanno ragione sotto un certo punto di vista: nelle torbiere dimenticate da dio, guardate l'orizzonte pulito, abitato solo da muschio, arbusti e caledonia, ammirate il cielo grigio e vedrete che qualcosa di magico c'è...&lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Inglese: la mia lingua principale. E' almeno una settimana che non pronuncio una parola in italiano e ne sono fiero. Ancora compio innumerevoli errori, eppure riesco a capire i film al cinema.&lt;br /&gt;L'inglese non è cosa per gli italiani. Qua nel campus nessuno va oltre il livello di decenza.&lt;br /&gt;Io ho 19 anni. Ho cominciato ad articolare qualche parola in inglese a 7-8 anni. A 9 ho cominciato a studiarlo a scuola. Frequento la facoltà di lingue. Ho vinto una borsa di studio solo perché nell'esame ho totalizzato il punteggio massimo.&lt;br /&gt;Henna ha 21 anni. Ha studiato tedesco come prima lingua straniera e lo svedese. Studia storia e politica all'università. Ha un livello di inglese anni luce migliore del mio. Un genio?&lt;br /&gt;Jaakko ha 21 anni. Ha studiato svedese e inglese a scuola. Né il suo lavoro né la facoltà lo hanno mai portato ad approfondire il suo inglese. Anche il suo è migliore del mio.&lt;br /&gt;Ma non mi vergogno di questo, non finché continuo a fare del mio meglio.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Finlandia: In qualche modo la mia terza patria. Un posto dimenticato da tutti, di gente strana, tranquilla e ingenua. Un posto freddo in maniera assurda, eppure considerato una buona terra dai nativi. Un paese abitato da persone che non sono neppure di razza indeuropea. Il posto dove andrò questo natale...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.esa.int/images/IrelandBloomMERFR22250_L.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.esa.int/images/IrelandBloomMERFR22250_L.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ora, poiché mio fratello si è dato immensamente da fare, devo fare quello che pensavo di fare da un pezzo: scrivere in inglese.&lt;br /&gt;Non l'ho mai fatto prima perché pensavo suonasse incredibilmente snob parlare in un'altra lingua, ma vorrei finalmente fare qualcosa per abbattere la nuova babele. Suvvia ragazzi miei, lo so che tanto lo capite l'inglese!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, my brother said many great things.&lt;br /&gt;I can't really speak about Irish way of living, because I will never understand them, but I can try. Ok, Dubliners are much like everybody else. They speak in a much american way, eat McDonalds' shit and everything else. But what about other people?&lt;br /&gt;Take Wexford. It's the main city of the county Wexford and still they are only 9.000 people. No stranger lives there. Even I am exotic for them. They think the pope is cool, they get amazed by everything that is big. They don't know what queue is (though, if they have to make a queue they are very precise and never cheat), what stress is. They just live in their own world, playing hurling without being payed, ignoring almost everything about the rest of europe. They don't hate strangers, they don't hate almost anybody (except for british!).&lt;br /&gt;Relax seems to be a feature of Irish people.&lt;br /&gt;THe Garda (policemen) don't even have weapons. They walk in the streets at night like young couples, without fear or suspect.&lt;br /&gt;Beer is expensive. &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;VERY &lt;/span&gt;expensive. Cigarettes are as much expensive. Everybody complains about this.&lt;br /&gt;There is a 50% of taxes on such goods, high taxes indeed. Money that go to the pocket of the country. But where do this money go?&lt;br /&gt;Irish Government pay students' fees, museum are free... can we say the same about italy?&lt;br /&gt;Maybe that is not a deep insight of Ireland, but for now it's all I have in mind. I'll do better with the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hugin said "Our society is collapsing, because we are not strong, we are pampered, we indulge on ourself, everything is too easy."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is he right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I see people running under the really soft irish rain, with umbrella, or when I see people taking taxis when they can walk, makes me think the same.&lt;br /&gt;We &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;are&lt;/span&gt; weak. Not in the body: we were never such strong beings. But in the mind. I look at other erasmus: rootless, frightened by a different language, by different food. Sticking together like hunted beasts . We are weak in the mind. We don't like to interfere in social life. How many times we just kept silent because "there is nothing we can do"?&lt;br /&gt;We have no reactions. Rage remains inside ourself. And rage is dangerous.&lt;br /&gt;We are afraid: we don't bet. Trust the other is betting. Love is betting. Suspect is fear. Prejudice is fear.&lt;br /&gt;We are weak, self indulgent. We say "I'll drop smoking, maybe tomorrow". We say "I will talk to that prety girl, maybe after lesson".&lt;br /&gt;Strong people are rare, and they usually are somehow eliminated or put in jail (Vikernes tells you something?).&lt;br /&gt;We follow patterns, everyday. Even being mad in the weekend, taking a booze and driving wrong-way is something that we have somehow planned to do. I am somehow witness of this: how many times did you complain about your country, your hometown? How many times have tried to make it better? How many of you have changed life and moved to another country?&lt;br /&gt;We are in Europe. We are European citizens. We can come and go, without any problems, but we keep on hating each other, criticizing germans because they have sausages for breakfast and the irish because they don't like wine.&lt;br /&gt;What about 'us'?&lt;br /&gt;Italians are scattered. I have never seen a group of italians in the campus. Never. We know each other, we poke each other reminding us how our nation is the best, and the others are just barbarians. But we never stay together and help each other. What I share with the other italians here? Food and that's all. Ok apart from Davide, but that is a particular case.&lt;br /&gt;We don't like how things are going, we don't like our job, we don't like our wifes. That brings us to apathy. Apathy and boredom. And alcohol. Yes, because we italians drink more than Swedish and Norwgian and Icelandic!&lt;br /&gt;I don't know what people is better. The Irish ask you "how's things" everytime, the Finnish ask "mita kuluu" only if they really want to know. Which is best I don't know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This post doesn't make any sense... I will improve with the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Faithfully Munin&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-5083707530247009234?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/5083707530247009234/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=5083707530247009234' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5083707530247009234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5083707530247009234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/11/dictionary-of-danieles-life-other-ideas.html' title='Dictionary of Daniele&apos;s life - other ideas'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-3855715562776246492</id><published>2007-11-17T13:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-17T14:12:15.934+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Odori</title><content type='html'>Quest'oggi la casa si è riempita di nuovi odori di ritorno dalla spesa.&lt;br /&gt;Odori anche nel senso antico della parola, ovvero spezie, "gli odori".&lt;br /&gt;E nella casa oggi alberga un'altra forma di vita, una piantina di basilico che godrà di tutti i migliori trattamenti che si possono riservare a una piantina di basilico. Ora siamo legati a filo doppio noi due: io l'acqua e lei il sapore.&lt;br /&gt;C'è anche odore di arancia e buona musica.&lt;br /&gt;Fuori la neve ormai si è aggrappata ai tetti come avesse le radici e nono stante sia rimasta poca rimane.&lt;br /&gt;Questo è un fine settimana degno di nota, veramente.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-3855715562776246492?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/3855715562776246492/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=3855715562776246492' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3855715562776246492'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3855715562776246492'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/11/odori.html' title='Odori'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-5753796055157213138</id><published>2007-11-16T11:03:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-16T11:05:25.175+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='italians'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tedeschi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='society'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='societa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='italiani'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='germans'/><title type='text'>The way germans are, the way italians are</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/Rz1rLX_hQBI/AAAAAAAAAFs/t4VFz4TqHZY/s1600-h/italy_map.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/Rz1rLX_hQBI/AAAAAAAAAFs/t4VFz4TqHZY/s200/italy_map.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5133376993435402258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This time I wanna write in english cuz I wanna make this post widespread.&lt;br /&gt;Ehi bro, don't you copy?&lt;br /&gt;I'm sure you do, so let's start.&lt;br /&gt;So, today we are talking about germans and italians.&lt;br /&gt;As I told you many times we have to completely rebuild our ideas and concepts about german guys.&lt;br /&gt;Is not that they don't eat potatoes and meat, yes, they do sometimes (and is worth it!) but that's not the point.&lt;br /&gt;We think about them as machines, or something like that, but it's not true: they cross the street even if the traffic light is red and they laugh every time in the office just like we italians do.&lt;br /&gt;Yes, they are more organized and efficient. This means: a few burocracy, a few useless papers, more time to spend with your family.&lt;br /&gt;And truly they do: spend more time with their children! I saw tons of fathers with their sons and daughters at the park, playing with them.&lt;br /&gt;Yes, is very painful to organize your waste disposal, cuz they use to put it on the road in some particular days in the month (there is a kalendar that schedules all the days for every different area of the city) and if you miss a day you have to wait maybe two weeks. But this bring some advantage: fewer people working at the waste taking, no garbage bin, etc.&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes I hardly see the difference between us, in some cases are very subtle differences. Sometimes you see them clearly.&lt;br /&gt;It's surely clear the average german citizen takes part actively in the city life, that is, not politically, but in other ways as knowing his rights, doing what he has to, control that all is ok (e.g. his neighbours aren't kicking themselves to death...)&lt;br /&gt;This point is particularly interesting.&lt;br /&gt;German for example in most of the case have not shutters at their windows, and often nor curtains.&lt;br /&gt;This is weird for us. Not only for the sun coming in at 6AM, but also for the lack of privacy.&lt;br /&gt;In every society a crucial point is the social surveillance and control. How is it performed? And how much?&lt;br /&gt;In Italy nobody cares for what happens. "Occhio non vede, cuore non duole" (= if you ignore something and turn the head not to see, you won't worry for that) is a italian motto. Omerta', is a italian word for those that pretend not to have seen anything.&lt;br /&gt;In Italy only policemen are supposed to have a certain kind of control, but even them aren't doing it as we would expect.&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand we got to put attention on an exagerate social control from the society itself, because that brings serious risks and weirdnesses.&lt;br /&gt;In any case centuries ago everyone in the town was knowing what was happening. And that's not too bad. It's the bigotry that led to disasters such as witch hunt and other "social diseases" that in any case -just to say- where brought by catholic and religious misconceptions. (Yes, cuz hate is often son of major 'Churches' and for Churches I intend religions, politicals, beliefs, and strong ideals, sad but true).&lt;br /&gt;So just to finish: I believe in distributed social control. I don't like it, because I'm an animal and I would like to live alone in a wood, but I think it can create positive dynamics, positive forces (a good starting environment and conditions are needed). You know, every society needs some forces, glues, dibates, to keep strong.&lt;br /&gt;Our society is collapsing, because we are not strong, we are pampered, we indulge on ourself, everything is too easy. We have no reason to trust and love the others, to create some kind of groups, kept together by social or cultural or immanent issues.&lt;br /&gt;And in the meanwhile we have hate (in this period lots of immigrants in Italy are raising tensions and racist behaviours), but most of all, stress.&lt;br /&gt;I always say that nowadays italians are stress-animals, rather than social-animal or whatever. We have huge problems with stress, social stress, family stress, city stress, office stress and so on. Also political stress, because there is not even one italian citizen who is happy with the political situation. Italy is frozen. Italy is broken. Italians are divided.&lt;br /&gt;Most of the people think about stress as a minor issue, but they never heard about 'system with feedback' in system theory, they never knew that an electronic amplifier can break itself because of a tiny input that then get feedbacked. So are societys and people. Psychoanalyst should care about this more often. Is not such huge concepts like Electra complex that ruins people. Is just small things like stress that start to break relationship with ourself and the others. And then, in a while you become a monster, or the others do, and nothing is possible no more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So let's close this point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just to come back to facts, I needed a document in english from university. I phoned to the student office (no, not Student Office, the fuckin' gueplh association, I mean segreteria studenti!). This is the phone call:&lt;br /&gt;"Hallo, I call from Germany and I need a document bla bla bla but it must be written in English"&lt;br /&gt;"No no, we are in italy, we speak italian"&lt;br /&gt;"You are in Italy, I'm in Germany and if you don't give me this fuckin'document my fuckin'taxes will be raised to the max amount"&lt;br /&gt;"No is not possible bla bla"&lt;br /&gt;Ma vaffanculo! (ah there is nothing like a healty vaffanculo!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The secretary made joke of me and those old fashioned italian. But indeed if you ask a document in english to a german university they provide it. And german is a more widespread language than italian, but they aren't nationalist when the fuck is not needed.&lt;br /&gt;We instead are fuckin'nationalist only in soccer world championship.&lt;br /&gt;And we are fuckin'selfish in all the other days.&lt;br /&gt;Such as "io copro tutto poi cazzi degli altri".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In My Humble Opinion, this is the way italians are, this is the way germans are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of us have pros and cons, and today I displaied only some aspects of the two societies, of course.&lt;br /&gt;I'll be back in the next month with some other discussion about this topic.&lt;br /&gt;Greetings to all my great friends, that of course are not this way. See you soon guys, I'll be back fo xmas!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-5753796055157213138?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/5753796055157213138/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=5753796055157213138' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5753796055157213138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5753796055157213138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/11/way-germans-are-way-italians-are-this.html' title='The way germans are, the way italians are'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/Rz1rLX_hQBI/AAAAAAAAAFs/t4VFz4TqHZY/s72-c/italy_map.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-7074537505406229430</id><published>2007-11-11T10:58:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-11T11:30:19.170+01:00</updated><title type='text'>la coperta di Linus</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RzbZmm5wg6I/AAAAAAAAAFk/RO0_-mLRCmE/s1600-h/MobileBillionMonkey.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RzbZmm5wg6I/AAAAAAAAAFk/RO0_-mLRCmE/s200/MobileBillionMonkey.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5131528082736317346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sinceramente, ma molto sinceramente,&lt;br /&gt;io non sopporto l'idea che un brillante italiano di nome Marconi si sia scervellato anni per far parlare due stronzi ai capi di un filo, sulle due sponde di un oceano...&lt;br /&gt;Non sopporto l'idea che due grandi genii come Shannon e Nyquist si siano fatti in tre per rendere trattabile la voce dei due stronzi di cui sopra e poterla campionare, registrare, memorizzare...&lt;br /&gt;Non sopporto il fatto che ogni giorno enormi brand da miliardi di dollari vengano liquidati, ricomprati, rietichettati, che i due stronzi che ci lavorano dentro debbano trasferirsi l'uno nel paese dell'altro per un capriccio economico...&lt;br /&gt;Non sopporto che ogni giorno c'è una guerra insostenibile i cui cannoni sono cartelloni pubblicitari, tv e modelle e lo scopo è la nostra morte seppelliti sotto tonnellate di una nuova specie di rifiuti detta cellulare, o handy o mobile o peggio ancora tivvùfonino...&lt;br /&gt;Non sopporto che i due stronzi ci sparino sopra le teste e che noi saltiamo al volo ingoiando come cretini quelle pallottole quadrate.&lt;br /&gt;Mi sono strarotto i cojoni che con tutto questo che accade, che è accaduto e che accadrà, dopo più di un secolo di telefonia ancora oggi non posso trovare chi voglio, non posso sentire chi voglio, non vengo contattato da chi voglio.&lt;br /&gt;Ne abbiamo già avuti decine di telefoni nella nostra vita e che uso ne abbiamo fatto?&lt;br /&gt;Li abbiamo tenuti spenti al momento in cui qualcuno ci cercava, li abbiamo tenuti accesi quando cercavamo qualcuno che inguaribilmente, chiudendosi, non aveva il minimo interesse a interagire con noi.&lt;br /&gt;E allora questa coperta di Linus che ci portiamo sempre dietro, ma che non funziona mai per le persone giuste, che è sempre scarico per le persone in difficoltà, che non ha mai i soldi per le emergenze, è solo un altro sintomo di fragilità, un facile acquisto per la nostra anima chiusa e graffiata.&lt;br /&gt;... just my fifty cents.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-7074537505406229430?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/7074537505406229430/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=7074537505406229430' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7074537505406229430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7074537505406229430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/11/la-coperta-di-linus.html' title='la coperta di Linus'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RzbZmm5wg6I/AAAAAAAAAFk/RO0_-mLRCmE/s72-c/MobileBillionMonkey.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-7169209455071132810</id><published>2007-11-09T15:21:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-17T18:33:36.307+01:00</updated><title type='text'>quote-time</title><content type='html'>It's quote-time!&lt;br /&gt;Here you are some funny quotation from Ulm&lt;br /&gt;"GPL licenses are like a virus" Frank&lt;br /&gt;"Yeah, scandinavian metal is very popular here" Tobias&lt;br /&gt;"Ah, you say I'm fuckin'backstabbin'youfuckin'backstabber?" I.&lt;br /&gt;"Sei brutto, come si dice brutto in Colombia?" I. a un colombiano durante il calcetto&lt;br /&gt;"Te l'avevo detto che tra noi era solo sesso" due italiane che vogliono rimanere anonime...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A cool new tech gadget is on my desk.&lt;br /&gt;Sig. is staring at my desk and I: "isn't it cool?"&lt;br /&gt;"No, is funny"&lt;br /&gt;"Funny?"&lt;br /&gt;"Yeah is funny that MY personal label printer is there and I was looking for it since weeks"&lt;br /&gt;"ouhhhh..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bis bald rigass&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-7169209455071132810?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/7169209455071132810/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=7169209455071132810' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7169209455071132810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7169209455071132810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/11/quote-time.html' title='quote-time'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-7492817679929928701</id><published>2007-11-07T12:58:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-07T13:15:15.786+01:00</updated><title type='text'>"STATE LONTANI DA QUEL TERMINALEEEE!"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RzGsTKTtahI/AAAAAAAAAFc/p3kkihB4DUA/s1600-h/linux_bash.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RzGsTKTtahI/AAAAAAAAAFc/p3kkihB4DUA/s200/linux_bash.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130070895736220178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ehila' ragazzi!&lt;br /&gt;Vi scrivo preso da grande giubilo: il nuovo OS X, Leopard (gia' si chiama proprio come me!) mostra varie falle, schermate blu della morte, e dischi rigidi fallati!&lt;br /&gt;Pero'! Just works?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In questo periodo sono in preda a una crisi di emicrania da sistema operativo. Sto odiando a morte Linux e la bash shell che e' uno strumento di morte neuronale... Tipo perdere ore per scrivere righe di workaround perche' kill non puo' accettare in pipeline uno stdin o perche' i single-quotes e i double-quotes indentati non sa nessuno come si gestiscono...&lt;br /&gt;Come erano belli i tempi del DOS... Quando ancora non c'era nessuna Canonical ltd. ma solo sani latrocini di brevetti e spy-story e progetti geniali venduti a due lire...&lt;br /&gt;Datemi retta, Linux e' potente, ma se non e' necessario... STATE LONTANI DA QUEL TERMINALE!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uff... ritorno a lavoro&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-7492817679929928701?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/7492817679929928701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=7492817679929928701' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7492817679929928701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7492817679929928701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/11/state-lontani-da-quel-terminaleeee.html' title='&quot;STATE LONTANI DA QUEL TERMINALEEEE!&quot;'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RzGsTKTtahI/AAAAAAAAAFc/p3kkihB4DUA/s72-c/linux_bash.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-4327450649801110707</id><published>2007-11-05T15:14:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T19:32:16.541+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gunpowder'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guy fawkes'/><title type='text'>Gunpowder Plot</title><content type='html'>Remember Remember,&lt;br /&gt;The fifth of November&lt;br /&gt;Gunpowder, treason and plot.&lt;br /&gt;I see no reason why&lt;br /&gt;Gunpowder treason&lt;br /&gt;Should ever be forgot! &lt;span style="font-size:125%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oggi è il 5 novembre e anche se nessuno se ne sbatte più nulla, per me è importante.&lt;br /&gt;Mi ricorda chi sono, da dove vengo. Mi ricorda i miei amici e la maschera da Guy Fawkes che stava "giù in campagna". Mi ricorda Remember November e tutta la musica che abbiamo fatto che di certo è grandiosa.&lt;br /&gt;Mi ricorda anche tutti i figli di puttana che siedono nei vari parlamenti e mi fa tornare la voglia di piazzare dinamite e farli saltare tutti per aria.&lt;br /&gt;Mi ricorda che il tentativo è fallito, una e cento volte, ma questo non significa che dobbiamo smettere di provarci.&lt;br /&gt;Ecco, quello che volevo dirvi è che Thomas Winter qua non è morto. Che un giorno faremo saltare per aria tanta gente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Piove. Solo qualche goccia. Sono nel paese più piovoso d'europa e ancora non ho visto vera acqua. Se speravo di fuggire alla follia del clima venendo qua a nord, mi sbagliavo di grosso.&lt;br /&gt;Le giornate scorrono tranquille, tra un saggio, una piccola delusione, i prezzi salati del Centra, camminare un'ora per fare la spesa al Tesco... Ed un thè&lt;br /&gt;Ieri sono stato a casa tutto il giorno. Ho passato il giorno a pensare, senza arrivare a nessuna conclusione. Perché ora sono spaesato. Parlo inglese tra me e me. Provo a leggere ma sono inquieto. Aspetto che torni Henna, cadere nell'oblio. Per oggi non voglio pensare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Hugin and Munin fly each day over mighty earth. I fear for Hugin lest he come not back, yet I am afraid more about Munin"&lt;br /&gt;The wise Odin - Edda&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-4327450649801110707?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/4327450649801110707/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=4327450649801110707' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/4327450649801110707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/4327450649801110707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/11/gunpowder-plot.html' title='Gunpowder Plot'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-1207617603163108753</id><published>2007-11-01T15:58:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T19:29:49.146+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bere'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='patate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giant&apos;s causeway'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irlanda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sbronze'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='belfast'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dublino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guinness'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='derry'/><title type='text'>Minä rakastan sinua</title><content type='html'>Che Munnin sia accusato di incostanza è una cosa frequente e normale... Chi non ha mai maledetto la propria memoria per essere stata fallace nel momento del bisogno?&lt;br /&gt;Si, sono stato occupato, e vi spiego anche da cosa: mountaneering club, una viaggio in irlanda del nord, Halloween e soprattutto dalla mia nuova ragazza.&lt;br /&gt;Probabilmente ne parlerò spesso, non tanto nell'aspetto personale (che è my business!) ma poiché è finlandese e questo si prospetta una delle esperienze culturali migliori del mio erasmus.&lt;br /&gt;Proverò a raccontare quello che mi è successo questi giorni, anche se proprio ora dovrei essere fuori a fare la spesa perché sto mangiando patate da una settimana e penso che morirò presto se non cambio dieta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Irlanda del Nord:&lt;br /&gt;Una delle più grandi assurdità nel mondo della suddivisione degli stati è la situazione dell'irlanda. Due capitali che distano 3 ore di bus (un pugno di chilometri, visto che i trasporti sono piuttosto lenti), due stati con due diverse lingue ufficiali ma la stessa lingua effettiva, due stati con diversa moneta ma la stessa gente, due stati di cui uno non è più grande delle Marche.&lt;br /&gt;Il nostro itinerario è stato Dublino-(london)derry-Belfast-Dublino.&lt;br /&gt;Prenotati i due ostelli, deciso il tempo di permanenza, ci siamo buttati all'avventura senza piani.&lt;br /&gt;Il viaggio verso Derry lo facciamo dormendo per la maggior parte del tempo, ma la città mi lascia perplesso. Il clima stesso è più freddo rispetto a quando siamo partiti, l'impatto freddo. La città è piccola e dopo l'enormità di Dublino è bello riposarsi girando il centro città a piedi. Le persone sono diverse, gli sguardi diversi da quelli dublinesi e la moda è un'altro mondo. Forse c'è un senso nell'essere divisi dal sud, penso.&lt;br /&gt;Nell'ostello abbiamo la massima accoglienza. E' costume dell'ostello fornire colazione gratis, avere una living room con cuscini, tavolini e tappezzeria indiana, non inchiavare le camere. Ma ci assicurano: mai un furto è stato compiuto.&lt;br /&gt;Il valore turistico della città è principalmente diviso in due parti: un assedio resistito nel XVII secolo di cui le mura portano ancora i segni, e il bloody sunday. Comunque, guerra. Rincontriamo all'ostello due persone che erano con noi nel bus: un tedesco e un ungherese che lavorano a Dublino in vacanza come noi.&lt;br /&gt;Un primo giro nelle mura e nel centro ci fanno scoprire il primo, e poi camminiamo sotto la pioggia nelle vie dove i 14 di derry furono uccisi. Murales e bandiere irlandesi sono ovunque. I quartieri sono qualcosa di particolare. Sembrano chiusi in sé stessi, rivolgendo al mondo solo murales di protesta e cartelli "ball games are not allowed"&lt;br /&gt;Un buon feeling comunque.&lt;br /&gt;Il giorno dopo bisogna partire, ma per dove e come non si sa. Abbozziamo un piano per andare alla distilleria Bushmill e vedere la Giant Causeway.&lt;br /&gt;5£ di biglietto di treno e possiamo viaggiare quanto e come ci pare. Così inizia la nostra epopea tra treni e bus.&lt;br /&gt;Carina la distilleria, buono l'assaggio dei whisky speciali. Bellissima la giant Causeway, sulla quale per carenza di tempo non possiamo camminare. Spero di poter tornare per una sessione di foto seria con Huggin prima o poi.&lt;br /&gt;Grandi emozioni quindi alla Causeway.&lt;br /&gt;Così grandi che io e Henna perdiamo l'autobus - bastardi, ci hanno lasciato indietro! - e quindi non abbiamo l aminima idea di come raggiungere Belfast.&lt;br /&gt;Nella nostra situazione ci sono il tedesco e l'Ungherese, che abbiamo nel frattempo incontrato ancora nel treno. Così in 4 ci organizziamo con un Taxi e spendendo una miseria riusciamo a raggiungere la stazione ancora prima dei nostri amici bastardi!&lt;br /&gt;Insomma, la collaborazione internazionale da sempre i suoi frutti.&lt;br /&gt;Infine si arriva a Belfast, la città più rinomata dagli erasmus in Irlanda che all'umanimità dichiarano "fa cagare".&lt;br /&gt;L'arrivo non è dei migliori: dopo le 6 la città è buia e desolata, i negozi sono chiusi e le poche persone camminano con lo sguardo fisso a terra, forse cercando qualche penny.&lt;br /&gt;L'ostello stesso ha un feeling ben peggiore di Derry.&lt;br /&gt;Il giorno dopo, alla luce del sole, facciamo un tour storico - che a Belfast significa vedere edifici distrutti dalle bombe e murales - con un tassista locale che ci racconta anche un po' la sua storia, tipo le due volte in cui è stato dirottato a Sandy Row.&lt;br /&gt;La città dal punto di vista turistico ha ben poco da offrire. Tuttavia ci guardiamo il fiume e attraversiamo alcuni quartieri contornati da filo spinato e da scritte intimidatorie, ma vero. Perché Belfast è una città profondamente cruda e vera. Sembra quasi di poter leggere nella mente delle persone. Forse gli abitanti stessi sono in preda a due sentimenti contrastanti: fuggire dalla buia città che da qualche anno è diventata vivibile e non più un campo di battaglia, o restare.&lt;br /&gt;C'è poco altro da dire, a parte che i Pub chiudono alle 24 ma servono il sidro più buono del mondo (che in verità è svedese).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Ieri è stata la notte di Halloween. In Italia non l'ho mai festeggiato e non me ne importa nulla, I don't give a fuck. Ma qui la festa è molto grande e visto che non si potrebbe comunque dormire, esco.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Halloween è praticamente l'ennesima sera in cui gli irlandesi si sbronzano, dopo il lunedì, il martedì il mercoledì ecc.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Però si sbronzano in costume o nudi.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Per una volta siamo riusciti a radunare una bel gruppo, quasi tutti erasmus. Incredibile, mi dico! Finalmente uniti sotto un'unica bandiera – o meglio sotto la spire, luogo di meeting. Peccato che dopo 20 minuti siamo già divisi in almeno 3 gruppi. Finisce sempre così.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E' tutto per ora. Spero di poter aggiornare il prima possibile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Terveisin,&lt;br /&gt;Munnin.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-1207617603163108753?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/1207617603163108753/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=1207617603163108753' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1207617603163108753'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1207617603163108753'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/11/min-rakastan-sinua.html' title='Minä rakastan sinua'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-6913029853743740805</id><published>2007-10-31T19:56:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-10-31T20:02:06.956+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='long exposure'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulm'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='einsingen'/><title type='text'>Einsingen by night</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RyjP9JSfcfI/AAAAAAAAAFU/mYZlXUWiQM4/s1600-h/PA316473_sviluppo_rapido_web.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RyjP9JSfcfI/AAAAAAAAAFU/mYZlXUWiQM4/s400/PA316473_sviluppo_rapido_web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127576825133756914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Einsingen by night... Questo è uno splendido angolo di Germania, indeed.&lt;br /&gt;Mancano le tapparelle, i bidet, il congelatore nel frigo, e gli architetti con un minimo di senno (chi sennò penserebbe un appartamento familiare senza fornelli?) però per quanto mi riguarda oggi "everything it's in the right place", come direbbero i Radiohead.&lt;br /&gt;(ora come minimo dani risponderà con una citazione dai finntroll del tipo det iskalla trollblodet...)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-6913029853743740805?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/6913029853743740805/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=6913029853743740805' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/6913029853743740805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/6913029853743740805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/10/einsingen-by-night.html' title='Einsingen by night'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RyjP9JSfcfI/AAAAAAAAAFU/mYZlXUWiQM4/s72-c/PA316473_sviluppo_rapido_web.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-1828000738394166790</id><published>2007-10-31T19:11:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-10-31T19:36:34.352+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stuttgart'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulm'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='concerti'/><title type='text'>Il nano Festa ora posa sulla mensola</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RyjKAJSfceI/AAAAAAAAAFM/Xzvv16xu3HU/s1600-h/PA316476.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RyjKAJSfceI/AAAAAAAAAFM/Xzvv16xu3HU/s200/PA316476.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127570279603597794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ci siamo! Finalmente mi trovo nella mia nuova casa, quella definitiva.&lt;br /&gt;La turca me l'ha mollata qualche giorno prima del 1° novembre (domani) ma ancora non ho avuto tempo di godermela. Tutte cene e inviti e pure stasera, festa da Iolanda per il suo compleanno e la partenza di Angela.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Angela santa subito!!! Ma quante mille mila volte ti devo ringraziare! Adesso pure le derrate alimentari, mitica!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il nano Festa ora posa immobile e allegro sulla mensola: significa che da oggi sono a casa. Il nano Festa è un mio amico, non lo chiamerei un soprammobile, mi accompagna nei miei spostamenti e di volta in volta occupa un posto diverso: una mensola, un mobile, uno scaffale.&lt;br /&gt;Non è autismo, né pazzia, (oddio Ulmesi e amici di casonato, non mettetemi in analisi!) è solo il ricordo di tante cose, tante cose diverse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'è anche un altro amico, la ranocchietta verde che mi ricorda di questa estate a Porto Recanati e altre mille cose. Mi ricorda di un certo tizio che ha fatto il colpo grosso in Irlanda e non scrive più da un pezzo perché è occupato in ALTRE cose...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ebbene sì cari amici, sono a casa.&lt;br /&gt;Vi manderò qualche foto più in là magari.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Stuttgart ci sono veramente troppi concerti. Stasera quello degli Apocalyptica... E ovviamente l'ho scoperto ieri. Quindi me lo perdo... Doh!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quando non riesco a organizzare un discorso coerente è ora che mi rilasso e smetto di scrivere, attendendo momenti più propizi...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-1828000738394166790?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/1828000738394166790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=1828000738394166790' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1828000738394166790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1828000738394166790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/10/il-nano-festa-ora-posa-sulla-mensola.html' title='Il nano Festa ora posa sulla mensola'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RyjKAJSfceI/AAAAAAAAAFM/Xzvv16xu3HU/s72-c/PA316476.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-2944965395197010854</id><published>2007-10-26T22:17:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-26T22:46:24.969+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='huginn'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulm'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='autunno'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tao'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='corvi'/><title type='text'>l'autunno: finalmente chiaro</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RyJRmZSfcdI/AAAAAAAAAFE/fyrbsMqFUiY/s1600-h/PA145935_small.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RyJRmZSfcdI/AAAAAAAAAFE/fyrbsMqFUiY/s200/PA145935_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125749045966369234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ho nella testa una confusione totale, troppe cose da sapere, da imparare così dal nulla.&lt;br /&gt;Ma giro per le strade, tra un bus e un semaforo con la testa alta, perché sono felice.&lt;br /&gt;Questa terra non si è accorta del mio arrivo, e lo sa giusto qualcuno che sono qua.&lt;br /&gt;Ma mi sento libero e pronto per scrivere nuove cose, su un nuovo quaderno, un foglio immacolato.&lt;br /&gt;E allo stesso tempo sono sempre io, quello della salita del pignocco, con gli amici a casa e la storia pregressa, una bella base solida e un'ancora salda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cammino per le strade e scopro una cosa: la mia stagione preferita è l'autunno.&lt;br /&gt;L'autunno, è il tempo dei cambiamenti.&lt;br /&gt;Non è statico e pesante come l'estate. Non è freddo e duro come l'inverno.&lt;br /&gt;I cambiamenti, quelli poco faceti.&lt;br /&gt;Le margherite spuntano tutte insieme, poi muoiono ingannate dal clima mutevole di marzo.&lt;br /&gt;Ma soprattutto quelli nascosti.&lt;br /&gt;Le margherite spuntano insieme, e sono annunciate dai bambini gioiosi (ma ce ne sono ancora?).&lt;br /&gt;Le foglie degli alberi ingialliscono silenziose, e ognuna cade al momento opportuno. E non sai quando è autunno e quando inverno. Non ricordi a settembre quand'è iniziato il freddo.&lt;br /&gt;O era ottobre?&lt;br /&gt;L'autunno è il momento che fugge, e già non è più autunno.&lt;br /&gt;Autunno è la sfumatura e la complessità.&lt;br /&gt;E' il momento di guardare avanti e assorbire vita e morte come concetti sempre presenti, contrastanti e insieme armonizzanti.&lt;br /&gt;L'autunno è il tempo del tao, anche se il tao è l'anno intero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E io cammino, tra le foglie colorate, verso l'autobus, col passo svelto.&lt;br /&gt;I corvi posano per foto che vorrei fare e non posso. Poi volano in grossi stormi disordinati, su un campo di un verde intenso, solcato da righe nette, pronto per foto che non avrò mai il tempo di fare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I corvi qui sono ovunque e forse Huginn finalmente ha trovato un posto confortevole dove sostare per un po'.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-2944965395197010854?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/2944965395197010854/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=2944965395197010854' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2944965395197010854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2944965395197010854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/10/lautunno-finalmente-chiaro.html' title='l&apos;autunno: finalmente chiaro'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RyJRmZSfcdI/AAAAAAAAAFE/fyrbsMqFUiY/s72-c/PA145935_small.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-3182416072001573598</id><published>2007-10-21T17:00:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-21T17:21:47.300+02:00</updated><title type='text'>nelle vesti di casalinga...</title><content type='html'>Oggi mi sono dedicato a molte faccende...&lt;br /&gt;Se in cucina come al solito si va alla grande, il capitolo "bucato" è tutto da rivedere...&lt;br /&gt;Vedi alla voce "mandata dei colorati": un po' troppi capi rossi, e il risultato è che le mutande da uomo che avevo messo insieme hanno fatto l'intervento a casablanca e sono pronte per essere regalate alle fidanzatine...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/Rxttx3GbXUI/AAAAAAAAAE0/FWhISjiZtoE/s1600-h/Copia+di+PA216330.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/Rxttx3GbXUI/AAAAAAAAAE0/FWhISjiZtoE/s200/Copia+di+PA216330.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123809704435998018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sotto il fronte stiro non va troppo meglio perché qui c'è l'asse, ma non trovo il ferro.&lt;br /&gt;Ecco così che mixando insieme un po' di memoria storica, McGiver e spirito d'adattamento e mi invento il ferro da stiro LiquidWärm® ad acqua bollente!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxttzHGbXVI/AAAAAAAAAE8/bPQjlvq6S5Q/s1600-h/Copia+di+PA216328.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxttzHGbXVI/AAAAAAAAAE8/bPQjlvq6S5Q/s200/Copia+di+PA216328.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123809725910834514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per tutte le nonnine nostalgiche del ferro da stire coi carboni!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il vento nordico soffia!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-3182416072001573598?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/3182416072001573598/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=3182416072001573598' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3182416072001573598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3182416072001573598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/10/nelle-vesti-di-casalinga.html' title='nelle vesti di casalinga...'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/Rxttx3GbXUI/AAAAAAAAAE0/FWhISjiZtoE/s72-c/Copia+di+PA216330.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-5319773355068105746</id><published>2007-10-21T15:48:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T19:27:41.054+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finlandesi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bere'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lingua'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inglese'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dublino'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Non c'è nulla da fare, l'abilità fotografica di mio fratello fa sempre il suo effetto. Adesso è arrivato il mio momento di annoiarvi con un fiume di parole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Parliamoci seriamente, la sfiga mi sta tormentando da quando sono qua. Oggi mi è anche tornato il mal di gola... ma riuscirò mai a guarire?&lt;br /&gt;Il clima non è così freddo, non piove quasi mai... eppure continuo a stare male.&lt;br /&gt;Sotto la mia finestra un corvo cerca di aprire una sacchetta... spettacolo divertente!&lt;br /&gt;Questi giorni Henna è stata raggiunta dai suoi amici finlandesi. CHe dire, oltre a scoprire un sacco di parolacce nel loro idioma sto anche scoprendo loro. Mi dicono che rubare una bicicletta è una cosa gravissima! Si, come in italia che abbiamo le mani di velluto...&lt;br /&gt;Nonostante quelli che sono qua sono molto più espansivi dei loro compatrioti in genere (o così dicono) devo ammettere che sono anche molto educati. Non parlano mai suomen kieli tra di loro prima di aver detto "Sorry, I'm going to explain her in finnish". Proprio come gli spagnoli, che l'inglese neanche lo sanno per sbaglio.&lt;br /&gt;Forse sembra una cavolata, ma qua la lingua diventa fondamentale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Essere in Erasmus ti fa capire quanto fondamentale sia la lingua che parli. Non tanto l'inglese, che conosco, che tutti conoscono, che sto imparando, che permette a questi bastardi anglofoni di parlare con disinvoltura e rende invece grotteschi i discorsi di chi non lo conoscono bene. Lo humor cambia, il volume della voce è diverso. Ridere è più complicato. Parlare è complicato. Andare a una festa di spagnoli da solo diventa un suicidio perché significa essere trascurato. Se non conosci una lingua non puoi entrare in un ambiente a meno che l'ambiente non accolga te.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;In questa babele di italiani, finlandesi, svedesi, irlandesi e tedeschi per non menzionare tutti gli altri, la lingua che usi è importante per determinare la tua simpatia, la tua gentilezza, e l'abilità che hai nel parlarla condiziona in gran parte il tuo valore nei rapporti internazionali. Balbetta l'inglese e nessuno ti vorrà. Se sei americano ti vengono in cerca. Non è questione di razzismo e spesso non invidio i madrelingua: poter parlare italiano con Davide e Matteo in un ambiente pieno di stranieri che non ti capiscono diventa non solo divertente ma terribilmente utile.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Vogliamo parlare dello humor? Seriamente, quando usciamo con gli amici il 70% almeno della conversazione sono battute, scherzi, humor di vario genere e stronzate in quantità. Come puoi tradurre tutto ciò a qualcuno che non parla la tua lingua?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'università mi tiene impegnatissimo con questi saggi e sto quasi diventando scemo. Ma come fanno gli irlandesi a non studiare mai?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Munnin&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-5319773355068105746?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/5319773355068105746/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=5319773355068105746' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5319773355068105746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5319773355068105746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/10/non-c-nulla-da-fare-labilit-fotografica.html' title=''/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-5039046915074681997</id><published>2007-10-21T12:01:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-21T12:23:06.757+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neve'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulm'/><title type='text'>Es hier schneien...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/Rxsod3GbXTI/AAAAAAAAAEs/EF2wuBxuvZ0/s1600-h/foto_x_blog.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/Rxsod3GbXTI/AAAAAAAAAEs/EF2wuBxuvZ0/s200/foto_x_blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123733494536297778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi guys, domenica mattina.&lt;br /&gt;Nevischio, poi neve.&lt;br /&gt;Strade deserte.&lt;br /&gt;Due ragazze camminano sul marciapiede affiancate, poi il marciapiede si restringe perché c'è una macchina su. Io vengo nel verso opposto. In tre non ci si passa. Loro si fermano prima della macchina così io posso passare.&lt;br /&gt;Questi tedeschi...&lt;br /&gt;Mi dirigo verso la pista ciclabile sulla riva del Donau.&lt;br /&gt;Sono le 11.20 e sul fiume scorre veloce una canoa. Per il resto la pista è deserta.&lt;br /&gt;Sono le 11.30 e sulla pista affluiscono corridori e ciclisti.&lt;br /&gt;Questi tedeschi!&lt;br /&gt;Lunch time, vediamo che c'è in frigo...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-5039046915074681997?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/5039046915074681997/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=5039046915074681997' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5039046915074681997'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5039046915074681997'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/10/es-hier-schneien.html' title='Es hier schneien...'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/Rxsod3GbXTI/AAAAAAAAAEs/EF2wuBxuvZ0/s72-c/foto_x_blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-193749761604017210</id><published>2007-10-18T19:42:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-18T20:08:52.374+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='foto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulm'/><title type='text'>ultima carrellata di foto</title><content type='html'>un pescatore sul danubio... ma come sarà buono questo pesce...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxebanGbXOI/AAAAAAAAAEE/xVZY39HJ2EE/s1600-h/PA146066_small.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxebanGbXOI/AAAAAAAAAEE/xVZY39HJ2EE/s400/PA146066_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122733982632074466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;le paperette del danubio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxebbHGbXPI/AAAAAAAAAEM/5694OAp-MZ8/s1600-h/papere.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxebbHGbXPI/AAAAAAAAAEM/5694OAp-MZ8/s400/papere.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122733991222009074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;vecchiette tedesche, alias secondo corpo di polizia!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxebbXGbXQI/AAAAAAAAAEU/6wMFzPNYvaY/s1600-h/PA145932_small.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxebbXGbXQI/AAAAAAAAAEU/6wMFzPNYvaY/s400/PA145932_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122733995516976386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;una coppietta sul danubio...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxebcHGbXRI/AAAAAAAAAEc/nZ3OwVDS_Ks/s1600-h/PA146243_small.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxebcHGbXRI/AAAAAAAAAEc/nZ3OwVDS_Ks/s400/PA146243_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122734008401878290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;vecchietti che giocano a macroscacchi!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxebcXGbXSI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Gl0Rkwio0sY/s1600-h/PA135676_small.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxebcXGbXSI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Gl0Rkwio0sY/s400/PA135676_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122734012696845602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E' per oggi è tutto, auf viedersehen&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-193749761604017210?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/193749761604017210/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=193749761604017210' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/193749761604017210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/193749761604017210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/10/ultima-carrellata-di-foto.html' title='ultima carrellata di foto'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxebanGbXOI/AAAAAAAAAEE/xVZY39HJ2EE/s72-c/PA146066_small.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-1807971163769178109</id><published>2007-10-18T19:34:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-18T19:41:05.440+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>continuo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeZnHGbXJI/AAAAAAAAADc/55tu6g65uW0/s1600-h/cygnus..JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeZnHGbXJI/AAAAAAAAADc/55tu6g65uW0/s400/cygnus..JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122731998357183634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un cigno sul Donau (alias Danubio)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeZnnGbXKI/AAAAAAAAADk/eUKIBl2KvIY/s1600-h/buffone.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeZnnGbXKI/AAAAAAAAADk/eUKIBl2KvIY/s400/buffone.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122732006947118242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un minchione che si bulleggia in bici alla tenera età di 35 anni (e due matrimoni sulle spalle minimo...). Secondo i miei amici psicologi si tratta di un chiaro fenomeno di esibizionismo di origine sessuale...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeZn3GbXLI/AAAAAAAAADs/27vrmn2QtGg/s1600-h/PA115625_small.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeZn3GbXLI/AAAAAAAAADs/27vrmn2QtGg/s400/PA115625_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122732011242085554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lungo la strada per Einsingen...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeZoHGbXMI/AAAAAAAAAD0/ySx6tBddMnI/s1600-h/papera1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeZoHGbXMI/AAAAAAAAAD0/ySx6tBddMnI/s400/papera1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122732015537052866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un mandarina duck sul Danubio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeZo3GbXNI/AAAAAAAAAD8/JGTF8qypMBg/s1600-h/scoiattolo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeZo3GbXNI/AAAAAAAAAD8/JGTF8qypMBg/s400/scoiattolo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122732028421954770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uno scoiattolo con la nocciola in bocca, in un parchetto immerso nella città, vicinissimo  alla casa che prenderò a breve...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-1807971163769178109?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/1807971163769178109/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=1807971163769178109' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1807971163769178109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1807971163769178109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/10/continuo.html' title=''/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeZnHGbXJI/AAAAAAAAADc/55tu6g65uW0/s72-c/cygnus..JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-5076046865328815827</id><published>2007-10-18T19:26:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-18T19:33:37.706+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Ecco un'altra raffica di foto... NB: ce ne sono tante molto più belle, ma qui ho scelto quelle più descrittive dell'environment...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeX5XGbXEI/AAAAAAAAAC0/pE8DSN9CxPw/s1600-h/PA105579_small.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeX5XGbXEI/AAAAAAAAAC0/pE8DSN9CxPw/s400/PA105579_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122730112866540610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mosca anni '20... Questa kirche era in vista dalla camera del garni, in una mattina nebbiosa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeX5nGbXFI/AAAAAAAAAC8/9ZZPaVkyx5Q/s1600-h/PA095576_small.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeX5nGbXFI/AAAAAAAAAC8/9ZZPaVkyx5Q/s400/PA095576_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122730117161507922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foto da turista...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeX53GbXGI/AAAAAAAAADE/pyfrr13ehJA/s1600-h/PA145877_small.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeX53GbXGI/AAAAAAAAADE/pyfrr13ehJA/s400/PA145877_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122730121456475234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il münster affogato nella modernità (NB: quei bastardi fanno pagare un biglietto per l'orgel konzert, il concerto organistico delle 11.30, e fanno uscire tutti...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeX6XGbXHI/AAAAAAAAADM/LRoupCWmd-A/s1600-h/PA145853_small.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeX6XGbXHI/AAAAAAAAADM/LRoupCWmd-A/s400/PA145853_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122730130046409842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uno dei mille piccioni che affollano le vie della città, ce ne sono veramente di tutti i tipi!! Sto facendo la collezione fotografica, ma non li beccherò mai tutti!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeX6nGbXII/AAAAAAAAADU/VG7cPnxYZXA/s1600-h/PA115595_small.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeX6nGbXII/AAAAAAAAADU/VG7cPnxYZXA/s400/PA115595_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122730134341377154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il portico della volkhochschule&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-5076046865328815827?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/5076046865328815827/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=5076046865328815827' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5076046865328815827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/5076046865328815827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/10/ecco-unaltra-raffica-di-foto.html' title=''/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeX5XGbXEI/AAAAAAAAAC0/pE8DSN9CxPw/s72-c/PA105579_small.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-1826867763271663807</id><published>2007-10-18T18:10:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-18T18:15:39.732+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='foto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ulm'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Ehi ragazzi finalmente un po' di foto... Ne ho fatte più di 600 e ne avrei volute fare di più perché in questo periodo il clima è stupendo ed ideale per tantissime foto paesaggistiche.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeGFHGbW_I/AAAAAAAAACM/Tcug0cnjSvA/s1600-h/PA095476_small.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeGFHGbW_I/AAAAAAAAACM/Tcug0cnjSvA/s400/PA095476_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122710523520703474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rathaus, il municipio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeGFnGbXAI/AAAAAAAAACU/lsdJ3fuuquo/s1600-h/PA095522_small.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeGFnGbXAI/AAAAAAAAACU/lsdJ3fuuquo/s400/PA095522_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122710532110638082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un cigno sul Danubio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeGGHGbXBI/AAAAAAAAACc/C2YbwRgTZK0/s1600-h/PA095554_small.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeGGHGbXBI/AAAAAAAAACc/C2YbwRgTZK0/s400/PA095554_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122710540700572690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le mura della città, sulla riva del Danubio&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeGGXGbXCI/AAAAAAAAACk/waiPrUoBPr0/s1600-h/PA085468_small.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeGGXGbXCI/AAAAAAAAACk/waiPrUoBPr0/s400/PA085468_small.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122710544995540002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ulm, il Münster (classica foto da turista)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeGGnGbXDI/AAAAAAAAACs/B0rJboBCqq4/s1600-h/huginn.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeGGnGbXDI/AAAAAAAAACs/B0rJboBCqq4/s400/huginn.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122710549290507314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E infine Huginn, il corvo, un saluto a tutti!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-1826867763271663807?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/1826867763271663807/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=1826867763271663807' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1826867763271663807'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1826867763271663807'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/10/ehi-ragazzi-finalmente-un-po-di-foto.html' title=''/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jBCphQKEHi4/RxeGFHGbW_I/AAAAAAAAACM/Tcug0cnjSvA/s72-c/PA095476_small.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-8677200197816745602</id><published>2007-10-16T19:16:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-16T19:33:19.775+02:00</updated><title type='text'>L'allenamento alla Kame House</title><content type='html'>Zweite tag der arbeit... E sembra proprio l'allenamento di Goku e Crilin alla Kame House, la casa del genio della tartaruga, ricordate Dragonball?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il capo, Ivan, fa ampi giri e non si capisce cosa vuole da me, mi sta facendo studiare/giocare sull'argomento, ma non si sa che vuole, dove vuole arrivare, se lui stesso ha una idea precisa di quello che vuole farmi fare...&lt;br /&gt;Sto cercando di capire e fingere di sapere, è faticoso. Leggo leggo leggo e provo a scrivere codice e script, vado per conto mio, e senza uno scopo preciso. C'è tanto da sapere, troppe cose...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per fortuna nell'ampia stanza dove sto, vedo la serra, fulcro centrale dell'edificio, in vetro, col sole pallido e spento che entra. C'è anche un ruscello e dei pesci. Mi siedo a volte sulla panca per una breve pausa in quello che nel mondo di Dune sarebbe un vero paradiso.&lt;br /&gt;Sì, mi sembra la serra del palazzo di Arrakeen, su Dune.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La stanza dove lavoro è occupata da me e Ivan, che ogni tanto ci scambiamo battute e commenti, e da tanti computer, in disordine. Non ci vediamo perché ci sono dei separè. Ho più spazio qui che a casa a momenti...&lt;br /&gt;E' impressionante lo spazio inutilizzato che c'è qui.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il tempo scorre veloce, ma a momenti sono veramente debole, mi vado a prendere un tee, das ist frei. Il pranzo in mensa è ottimo e per 3.50€ vale la pena ogni tanto. Ma abbiamo anche una cucina a disposizione e le donne di pulizia pensano a sistemare e pulire le cose.&lt;br /&gt;Alex mi ha accompagnato alla mensa questi giorni.&lt;br /&gt;Che strana persona. Silenzioso, un trentenne dai capelli lunghi, già grigi. Mezzo tedesco, mezzo rumeno. Ha un occhio vispo e ferino, sorride alle battute, ma poi tace a lungo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gli altri non li conosco quasi per niente.&lt;br /&gt;Ok, c'è Frank, il capoccia, un omone sempre in vena di scherzi, col peggiore inglese dei dintorni, veramente simpatico e socievole.&lt;br /&gt;Poi c'è Tanja, una tonta tedesca che non è riuscita ad aiutarmi a trovare casa da lì in un mese intero. Fortuna che sono cazzuto e fortunato...&lt;br /&gt;Ci sono tante altre persone, un metallaro con una maglietta che reca "Wodan Herst", un indiano, un cinese, una trentina di persona, tutte disseminate per il grande e luminoso edificio.&lt;br /&gt;Com'è strano però... Ognuno per conto suo, sono in pochi a condividere la stanza.&lt;br /&gt;C'è Annja, unica altra donna, più che trentenne, ma bella in forma!&lt;br /&gt;E poi ci sono altri mille punti di domanda...&lt;br /&gt;Stasera finalmente firmo il contratto con Hasret.&lt;br /&gt;Uhm troppe cose da fare ancora...&lt;br /&gt;E questo duro allenamento alla Kame House...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-8677200197816745602?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/8677200197816745602/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=8677200197816745602' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8677200197816745602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/8677200197816745602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/10/lallenamento-alla-kame-house.html' title='L&apos;allenamento alla Kame House'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-3559913248410860621</id><published>2007-10-16T19:09:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-16T19:16:07.830+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Autumn Leaves</title><content type='html'>Che splendida sensazione.&lt;br /&gt;Esco da lavoro, sono le 18. L'aria è tersa e rimpiango di non avere con me la reflex.&lt;br /&gt;Salgo sul marciapiede e inalo l'essenza di rose, ancora fresche e vive.&lt;br /&gt;In aria una mongolfiera scruta la distesa verde e arancio e cemento del posto dove oggi vivo.&lt;br /&gt;Passeggio ed è fresco, la radio passa un inedito Hendrix e mentre attendo l'autobus mi chiedo se è qui che devo fermarmi...&lt;br /&gt;Le case tipiche e i boschi autunnali mi riempono di serenità.&lt;br /&gt;Torno a casa per le vie grigie e brutte e non mi sento a disagio.&lt;br /&gt;Forse la città non è così terribile?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ancora è autunno, il freddo non mi assale.&lt;br /&gt;La torre onnipresente e soverchiante del Münster non mi osserva oggi con fare maligno.&lt;br /&gt;Un altro giorno è passato e la vita si compie.&lt;br /&gt;Odin Vili Ve&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-3559913248410860621?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/3559913248410860621/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=3559913248410860621' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3559913248410860621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3559913248410860621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/10/autumn-leaves.html' title='Autumn Leaves'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-3169996298985749237</id><published>2007-10-16T12:39:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-16T12:53:50.824+02:00</updated><title type='text'>and finally some news...</title><content type='html'>Hi there, finalmente mi prendo un attimo il tempo di scrivere due righe sul blog...&lt;br /&gt;Maronn... sono giusto 8 giorni che sto in deutschland e sembra una vita...&lt;br /&gt;La prima settimana, da "turista" e allo stesso tempo da "immigrato" e´ stata molto lunga...&lt;br /&gt;Ora che ho cominciato a lavorare probabilmente il tempo passera´ piu´ in fretta...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ieri sera se n´e andata Carolina, la portoguese, per un paio di mesi... Era fortissima!&lt;br /&gt;Sono venuti da noi (cioe da fabiano, cioe in realta a casa del prof. Kächele) Vale, Stefanie, Angela, Gogo per salutare Carolina. E´ venuto anche un tizioche non conoscevo: scatta la figura di merda: "I also heard about some people that was saying Norway was the capital of Oslo... these americans..."&lt;br /&gt;Il tizio era americano...  :|  !! Per fortuna non se l´e presa e ci abbiamo fatto un brindisi sopra...&lt;br /&gt;Minchia stanotte ho dormito malissimo, domenica mattina mi sono alzato prestissimo, voglio dormire...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ennesimo giorno di sole, fortuitamente, sembra strano ma adesso fa la stessa temperatura qui che in Ancona: 17 gradi... Very nice, peccato che sia un brutto presagio per quanto riguarda il clima...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wodan herst... buon maestrale a tutti&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-3169996298985749237?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/3169996298985749237/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=3169996298985749237' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3169996298985749237'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3169996298985749237'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/10/and-finally-some-news.html' title='and finally some news...'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-2399562021388428370</id><published>2007-10-12T14:14:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T19:23:47.442+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Henna'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bere'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Christian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='remy ama il cazzo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Qbar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pub'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dublino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='biblioteca'/><title type='text'>From the library</title><content type='html'>questo sarà un post tranquillo e disordinato... sono in biblioteca e adesso mi metto a studiare.&lt;br /&gt;Allora un po' di aggiornamenti:&lt;br /&gt;Il viaggio in svezia con Davide sta prendendo forma e colore, mentre Probabilmente salto la bellissima gita a Galway  con la ISS perché temo di trovarmi attorniato da francesi (visto che nessuno che conosco viene).&lt;br /&gt;Ho passato l'ultima notte a scrivere la storia del mio character per la campagna di World of Darkness della Gamesoc. Oggi al meeting c'era Karen Wade che oltre ad essere nei ranghi della soc è anche mia tutor di linguistica. Adesso mi ha parlato e promesso il manuale per cui sono felice come un bambino.&lt;br /&gt;Ieri  serata tranquilla con varia gente: Christian (deutschland) aka "Remy ama il cazzo", Henna la finlandese metal, Davide, Giorgia e una tedesca che non mi ricordo come diavolo si chiama.&lt;br /&gt;Siamo tutti daccordo sul fatto che ci siamo rotti il cazzo dei truzzi merdosi di dublino e dei disco club come il Qbar aka "gaybar" etc.&lt;br /&gt;Si torna a casa presto e ascoltando Dunkelheit (darkness) di Burzum finisco il background del PC. Probabilmente mi scarteranno ma poco importa. Devo tentarle e tutte e se le norne sono dalla mia parte andrà bene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi sto lentamente guarendo da questo mortale raffreddore che mi ha fatto diventare sordo sul lato sinistro.&lt;br /&gt;Ho fatto una pubbata a Dublino con altri italiani... che dire, brava gente e soprattutto coraggiosa, visto che è partita per l'irlanda con un inglese penoso cercando lavoro.&lt;br /&gt;Altre Dublin Tales a presto... che il vento del nord gonfi le vostre vele!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-2399562021388428370?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/2399562021388428370/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=2399562021388428370' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2399562021388428370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/2399562021388428370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/10/from-library.html' title='From the library'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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-556085913567246114.post-8789179728106319362</id><published>2007-10-04T11:12:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T19:24:22.301+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='campagna'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hurling'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irlanda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cocksucker'/><title type='text'>Foto di Irishness</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/RwSwpyUtvPI/AAAAAAAAADY/fPv-BxTyZvU/s1600-h/irish+farm+005.JPG"&gt;Ecco altre foto della gitarella in campagna!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/RwSwpyUtvPI/AAAAAAAAADY/fPv-BxTyZvU/s1600-h/irish+farm+005.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/RwSwpyUtvPI/AAAAAAAAADY/fPv-BxTyZvU/s200/irish+farm+005.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117409308529507570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" 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rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/10/foto-di-irishness.html' title='Foto di Irishness'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/RwSwpyUtvPI/AAAAAAAAADY/fPv-BxTyZvU/s72-c/irish+farm+005.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-7494200760641581222</id><published>2007-09-30T17:37:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-30T18:21:17.392+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sbotto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kells'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hurling'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='irlanda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='munnin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dublino'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fattoria'/><title type='text'>Irishness....</title><content type='html'>Sono stato una sera in centro, giovedì. Mi sono risparmiato dal raccontare il disgusto del centro, della "bella società" che va a ballare in taxi, vestiti in tiro, minigonne e tacchi ovunque, poi per le strade vomitando a terra, e capisci da dove viene l'odore tipico di Dublino...&lt;br /&gt;Non mi ci soffermo. Dico solo che la giornata di ieri mi ha ripagato di questi orrendi spettacoli.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Ieri finalmente mi sono reso conto di essere in Irlanda.&lt;/p&gt;              &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Siamo andati in una fattoria irlandese: io, davide, una manciata di francesi, un'invasione di malesiani, una tedesca, due olandesi e nessuno spagnolo... guardacaso.&lt;br /&gt;Sveglia alle 9 e poi in autobus fino a Kells.&lt;br /&gt;Scendiamo dall'autobus: il cielo è grigio, ma ha smesso di piovere. Ho il mal di gola e mi sento abbastanza uno schifo (festacce del cazzo a casa mia e sonodovuto fuggire a casa di Davide per dormire). Tuttavia non mi manca l'entusiasmo.&lt;br /&gt;Pisciatina, poi ci mettono le parnanze e ci fanno fare il pane. Quello mio e di Davide sembra une merda, molliccio e inespressivo.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/Rv_LWSUtvKI/AAAAAAAAACw/TWIkkISKMbE/s1600-h/irish_farm2+006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_c_d2kmnfJjA/Rv_LWSUtvKI/AAAAAAAAACw/TWIkkISKMbE/s200/irish_farm2+006.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116031285452455074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Terminato il triste capitolo culinario usciamo. Fuori c'è un cane identico a quello della copertina del vino più economico di Dublino: il Workin' Dog. Una più accurata analisi ci fa scoprire che ce ne stanno tipo una decina tutti uguali.&lt;br /&gt;La tappa successiva è nel pollaio. Qualcuno se ne sta lontano dicendo che ha cattive esperienze con le galline. Ma che cazzo può averti fatto una gallina? Boh,&lt;br /&gt;Fattostà che dopo aver calcato per bene la merda di una decina di diverse specie di animali, ci si dirige verso un'altro salone. Non è altre che un lungo edificio di pietre con soffitto di travi e pavimento di legno. Alle pareti sono appoggiati innumerevoli Bodhrann. In questo freddo salone (dimenticatevi termosifoni o anche solo caminetti!) il figlio del fattore ci introduce alla “the siege of Ennis”: gli irlandesi si sono ribellati molte volte agli anglosassoni, ma solitamente perdevano tutte le battaglie. L'unica che hanno vinto è stato questo assedio di Ennis, che hanno prontamente festeggiato creando questo ballo.&lt;br /&gt;Non dimenticate mai comunque che gli irlandesi preferiscono festeggiare prima che le cose accadano, in caso non potessero festeggiare anche dopo. Solitamente però fanno entrambe le cose.&lt;br /&gt;Allora tornando a noi, c'è poco da raccontare, ci siamo tutti divertiti come matti.&lt;br /&gt;Infine si va a mangiare. Il pranzo non era un granché ma se non altro era abbondante. Mangiamo il nostro pane, e si scopro che è venuto bene. Forse ci andava più sale, ma non importa.&lt;br /&gt;Appena finita l'abbuffata qual'è l'idea geniale? Giocare ad Hurling!&lt;br /&gt;Per chi non sapesse, questo sport non professionale performato con mazze di legno e palle di sughero (molto dolorose : |) è lo sport più vecchio del mondo ancora praticato. Non solo, è anche uno dei più violenti e una delle maggiori cause della frattura della mano in Irlanda.&lt;br /&gt;L'aria è diversa da quelle parti. La vegetazione è diversa, respira. Dopo l'Hurling saliamo su un carro pieno di fieno che trainato dal trattore ci porta un po' fuori, in un bog (palude). Qui si scava torba da secoli. E che risorsa incredibile la torba! Nelle sue profondità si trovano corpi ancora conservati, cose antiche. Da questa malta essiccata si ricava fiamma. In essa si mantengono i prodotti del lavoro.&lt;br /&gt;Che aria pulita! Che paesaggi magnifici. In questi acquitrini i guerrieri celtici si nascondevano. Bollivano Caledonia nei loro vestiti per mimetizzarsi e attaccavano gli inglesi per ritirarsi nei bog.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Che paradosso la genetica. Chi potrebbe mai dire che da questi guerrieri discendono le ragazzine in minigonna che trasportate da costosi taxi si fanno portare a ballare nei club snob e poi ne escono sbronze marce, vomitando per terra “l'introito della serata”?&lt;br /&gt;Finalmente ho visto un po' di vera Irlanda, e in questi posti (altro che Dublino) potrei restarci per tutta la vita.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Già comincia il panico da ritorno a casa, mi chiedo come sarà tornare a Osimo e Macerata, vivere in Italia dove aver vissuto i mali e i beni dell'Irlanda. Ma non è ancora giunto il momento.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"&gt;Slan da Munnin, Il corvo nella terra dei corvi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-7494200760641581222?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/7494200760641581222/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=7494200760641581222' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7494200760641581222'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/7494200760641581222'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/09/irishness.html' title='Irishness....'/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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/_c_d2kmnfJjA/Rv_LWSUtvKI/AAAAAAAAACw/TWIkkISKMbE/s72-c/irish_farm2+006.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-1297989652187412097</id><published>2007-09-30T11:43:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-30T13:11:10.558+02:00</updated><title type='text'>idio...sincrasie!</title><content type='html'>Sta Germania come sarà?&lt;br /&gt;Tra centraliniste lobotimizzate, segretarie che dimenticano gli appuntamenti, immobiliari che non vogliono far soldi, hotel tutti pieni durante il lunedì e il martedì, a me sembra che sti bayern-swabian hanno i cavolini di bruxelles nelle meningi.&lt;br /&gt;Spero di farmi quattro grasse risate alla loro faccia, quando giocando a calcetto insieme al mio superiore italiano urleremo ai tedeschi che noi di stellette ne abbiamo quattro sulla maglietta!!&lt;br /&gt;Ne abbiamo quattro vero? No perché io la sera dell'ultrafinalissima dei mondiali mi ricordo un sacco di casino ma sul teleschermo non vedevo una cippalippa...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quando arriverò avrò una settimana di "vacanza" e soggiornerò in un Garni in pieno centro che costa poco più dell'ostello. Nel mentre ho un solo obiettivo: trovare casa!!!&lt;br /&gt;Sembra che sia stato fortunato con la sistemazione dell'albergo, almeno sulla carta...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E per concludere ho finalmente prenotato il biglietto del treno... Non famo scherzi!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-1297989652187412097?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/1297989652187412097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=1297989652187412097' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1297989652187412097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/1297989652187412097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/09/idiosincrasie.html' title='idio...sincrasie!'/><author><name>Huginn</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15288480423208993737</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1340/1333963911_640b1bcbd0_o.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556085913567246114.post-3469093786632832150</id><published>2007-09-26T18:15:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T19:25:32.236+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ISS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Game society'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UCD'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inglese'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stronzo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dublino'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Questo campus può fare tranquillamente a meno di me. Non che la cosa mi abbatta, ma significa che il mio punteggio è a zero. Praticamente nessuno (tranne pochi italiani) ha alcun interesse nella mia esistenza: significa che dovrò guadagnarmi punti.&lt;br /&gt;La biblioteca è immensa e spesso mi ci perdo. Tra file e file di libri sembra di essere nella biblioteca di alessandria ed è strano pensare che ci sia parte dello scibile umano che non vi sia contenuto.&lt;br /&gt;Quello che mi scandalizza sono le innumerevoli persone che vengono qua (finanziate anche dalla comunità europea) sotto il cielo d'Irlanda e non hanno alcun interesse nel conoscere irlandesi, nell'assaggiarne il cibo, bere la loro birra. Nemmeno per un italiano, un tedesco, un finlandese... Tutti chiusi nei loro piccoli mondi.&lt;br /&gt;Ad ogni modo sono ottimista, credo che prima o poi qualcosa cambierà. L'inquilino francese se ne va... inutile da dire: l'erasmus non è per tutti. A me per fortuna gli dei non hanno negato il dono della forza necessaria.&lt;br /&gt;Forse il mio inglese comincia a fluire... questi irlandesi hanno un pessimo accento. Bello da ascoltare ma decisamente incomprensibile per un outisder. Troppo comico vedere americani e irlandesi che non si capiscono!&lt;br /&gt;E' stato ufficialmente dichiarato dal comitato  supremissimo che la mia insegnante di Linguistica, nonché Executive Minion (che carica assurda?) della Game Society dello UCD è una... cioè è molto good-looking, understood? Se non altro ho un motivo per andare ai tutorial di fonetica...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Digressione allegra quest'oggi, poiché volevo alzare un pelo l'umore del Blog - e di mio fratello, che ormai è entrato nel limbo pre-partenza... come la conosco bene quella fase!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Munnin, memoria, sempre fedelissimo a chi lo invoca.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556085913567246114-3469093786632832150?l=fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/feeds/3469093786632832150/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=556085913567246114&amp;postID=3469093786632832150' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3469093786632832150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/556085913567246114/posts/default/3469093786632832150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fratellioltralpe.blogspot.com/2007/09/questo-campus-pu-fare-tranquillamente.html' title=''/><author><name>Dani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12005129653035982885</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></feed>
