We just started our descent into Manila. Pressure is changing in the cabin. This the first leg of the long journey home, or better said to our homelands. We will fly tonight to Helsinki via Hong Kong, then after 10 days we will go to Italy. That will be the first time for Venla who is now 3 and 1/2 and the third time for Olga. Olga has been worried about travelling to Italy. She […]
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25 min e 43 sec. Questo e’ tutto quello che ho in questo momento. Corro a passo lento sulla camminata in riva al mare qui ad Hai Phong. Il mare e’ mosso, di un colore marrone fatto di sedimenti. Il vento umido e caldo. In lontanza il profile delle isole di Ha Long Bay si confonde nelle nuvole basse e grigie del monsone. Corro. Musica nell’ iPod. Il concerto a Slane Castle vicino a Dublino […]
How can I feel nostalgia for a country I have never visited? And yet, that is how I feel. Some ingredients help of course: the never satisfied enough need to see new places and observe how people live, the need for new landscapes, the nervous excitement that precede the exit from the airport of an unknown city. The most important ingredient, however, remains music. Music makes you travel ahead of time, make you jump from […]
I am at the entrance of the pagoda of Gangaramaya in Colombo. As in the the pagoda compound everybody is walking barefoot, I take off my shoes and walk towards an old man sitting a table. Old style, black framed glasses. He sits at a table and issues tickets to foreign tourists. ‘100 Rupies, sir’ he says and opens the receipts book to issue mine. I put my shoes in a plastic basket and pay. […]
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I am walking towards the tube station. I pull my two pieces of luggage that follow smoothly on their small wheel. In front of the Italian bar with shiny metal round tables and mini skirt waitresses I see the Italian guy who did for me the three cappuccino yesterday morning. He recognizes me and says hi. I am not in a hurry so stop for a cappuccino. The morning a just a bit cloudy but […]
It is still light outside, even thought is past eight. Had a chicken tikka. Go for a walk towards the Thames. Find a small alley that brings to a tiny park behind the archbishop house. A signs says that the park was opened in 1901. Pater Gabriel sings Heroes, his voice just gets better as he gets solder. A man sits alone on the a bench and reads a hardcover book. Red brick houses surround […]
What is the cost we pay when we reach our dream? Is there a cost? What do we do once a dream has become reality and is part of the past? A child is sitting in a dentist waiting room. He opens a magazines and reads that in NY they are planning to build the tallest buildings on earth: the World Trade Center. Those towers do not exist yet, but his dream is and will […]
Recently I found myself in not one but two meetings that also included George Soros, and I was inspired to furious intellectual effort. You see, I’m convinced it’s possible to construct a terrific palindrome centering on the famous investor’s reversible last name. Unfortunately, the best I’ve come up with so far is an imaginary conversation wherein I ask the great man what to make of the gyrations of Japan’s exchange rate, and he tells me […]