All posts filed under: Journal and Diary

Meditare a Mahana Point

3 September 2012
by Arnaldo Pellini
Indonesia

Raggiungo Mahana Point con lo scooter che ho affittato alla guesthouse. Sono le tre del pomeriggio. Il sole ha appena iniziato a calare e annunciare l’inizio del tardo pomeriggio. La strada per arrivare fino a qui è dissestata. Una stretta striscia di asfalto che accompagna i sali e scendi di quest’isola brulla e secca che ricorda il nostro meridione. Sembra stonare qui ai tropici, sull’isola di Nusa Ceningan non lontana da Bali. Parcheggio lo scooter […]

Guesthouses and ipads

27 August 2012
by Arnaldo Pellini
Indonesia

I am in Bali with Katja, Olga and Venla. More exactly we are in Kuta, south of the provincial capital Denpasar. This is a backpacking trip. We travel with out rucksacks, stay and hostels and guesthouses. The first one is The Island Bay guesthouse. Nice open restaurant/cafè. Great pizzas. A small pool in the yard where the rooms are. There are dorms. There are single room with a large bunker bed that can easily accomodate […]

Articolo su Cremona Oggi – Cremona dall’estero

11 September 2011
by Arnaldo Pellini
Italy

http://www.cremonaoggi.it/?p=18206#more Una bellissima storia, raccontata con umiltà e con passione. Una vita in viaggio tra paesi e culture. Nepal, Cambogia, Vietnam, Filippine. Una famiglia che, in casa, parla tre lingue. Tutto nel lungo e affascinante racconto di Arnaldo Pellini, 44 anni, cremonese che abita a Dumaguete e lavora nell’ambito della cooperazione e dello sviluppo. «Non tornerei a vivere a Cremona, ma voglio che le mie figlie conoscano la mia città e provino che cosa significhi […]

Italian sunset and Proust

16 April 2011
by Arnaldo Pellini
Italy

Saturday evening. The sun is slowly setting on the fields at the outskirts of my hometown. There is a warm yellow light at the horizon. The same colour and light in spring as well as autumn as if the season would be unsure as to which direction to take. I stay at a friend place just outside the old centre. It is quiet here and I can hear men talking outside the bar down the […]

Street view barber shop

4 March 2011
by Arnaldo Pellini
Vietnam

I am in Doi Can, the street that goes from Lieu Giai to the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum. If is later afternoon. People are rushing out from their offices to go home. The street gets busy. I am sitting on a typical narrow plastic chair. Knees above the waist line. Motorbikes parked one the sidewalk, pushing people to walk on the street. Shops accompany this busy and lively street up to the mausoleum. Lights are […]

Back in Ha Noi

2 March 2011
by Arnaldo Pellini
Vietnam

Let’s see if I manage to keep a diary of my stay in Ha Noi this time. It is the very first time I am here and will not do work for the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. It seems to me a sign of the passing of time, as well as the new route that the taxi took frorm Noi Bai airport to the hotel where I stay, the Horison.  It took a narrow […]