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The 3 best things I bought in my life (so far)

1. The Salsa Van

Salsa Van!I never own any of the cars I drove but when I decided to buy my 1st 4-wheels vehicle I had no doubt.
Some people 1 day buy the car they always wanted – a sporty rocket, a cabrio – before getting merried and move to a hearse.
For me that car was a van.
The van can do everything a car can do, and much more.
Nothing can beat the Van, especially when it’s on his way to a Salsa Festival somewhere with 9 dancers onboard!

 

2. A travel jacket

I bought my ScotteVest when I started traveling for work. It’s super cool and I can stuff a lot of things in its 32 pockets!
More things in the jacket means less things in the suitcase – reason why I stop checking-in the luggage and I take my trolley and my PC bag with my in the cabin.
And anywere I go I always know in which pocket the pen, the camera, the passport, the block-notes, the gloves and the iPod are.

 

3. The eBook Reader

My 1st eBook reader was a Sony, actually a gift from my brother Sergio.
PC or tablet can’t be as distraction-free as an eBook! That’s why I love it – reading experience is as close as possible to a paperbook but with the advantages of storing tons of titles, possibility of taking notes and to lookup words in the dictionary with just a tap.
I just bought an Amazon Kindle Touch: much better screen quality!

 

Rule for post #2: Create the article using 3 sessions of “free writing” technique of 3 minutes each, no re-editing.

3×3 writing challenge with Cloudio

a 3x3 exampleCloudio is an unconventional character I met in Cali (Colombia) during my Salsa WalkAbout.

Among the few things in common, we both like writing and playing the blogger.

So he proposed me this new writing challenge that I didn’t really feel like doing, but he was really too enthusiastic to let him down!

The 3×3 writing challenge will start the 03-03-2012.

For the next 33 days, Cloudio and me we’ll post a blog of 333 words each 3 days at 3:33pm, on the same subject and with the same special rule, somehow related with the magic number of 3.

Each time, one of us will choose the subject and the other the special rule, that will be at the end of each completed post.

For example, for the first article Cloudio may choose the subject “parks” and Daniele the rule “333 characters”.
For the second article Daniele may choose the subject “bugs” and Cloudio the rule “to be written in 33 minutes”.

 

Why we are doing this?
Why not? We like writing and we like challenges that take us out of the comfort zone.
And we believe that our billions readers will like it too!

 

Achtung billions readers!

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I got websites

This is the last post of my personal blog personal challenge!
3 months have passed and this it post #12.

I feel like I have a lot of things to write but in the future I’ll post when I’ll feel like without any commitment, experimenting writing and sharing when loneliness will comes.

Anyway, I decided to disclose one of the things that had keep me busy lately.

When I embraced the path of fixing my knee,  that will keep me away from Salsa dancing for months, I realized I HAD to find something alternative to keep me busy and avoid depression…

So I decided to invest some time and money on websites, something I always been passionate about.

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Another taxi ride, to Swat Valley

Castle of Nantes

Greetings from Nantes – beautiful city in Brittany, crossed by the Loira river, French country.

I missed a lot travelling, being grounded in Amsterdam for more than 3 weeks recovering from the knee “let me check” surgery I had.

Full of joy and excitement, I stepped into another taxi to reach the beloved Schiphol airport, starting point for a business trip to Milano, Italy and then here in Nantes.

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How about Tel Aviv, Israel

NOTE: The following post is written in Comic Sans font, because I think I’m funny.

I think everyone has some places that trigger curiosity, excitement, interest. Places we want to visit, we fantasize about, without really a reason behind it.

One of this places for me was Lisbon, Portugal.
After my brother showed me the movie Lisbon Story, by Wim Wenders, I got fascinated by the simplicity of the city and in summertime 2004 I did managed to go there to eat some bacalau.

Another place I always felt attracted is Israel.
It’s one of those places mistreated by the media, one of those places we tend to think that only bad things happen.
The proof was that when I told people that I was going to Tel Aviv for business, the most common comment I got was a sad “don’t take the bus!”.

I was there exactly, more or less, one year ago for the last of three visits I had chance to do there. Runnng on the beach at sunset with 15C while Amsterdam was frozen.

Tel Aviv sunset

 

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Recommended book: How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World (Harry Browne)

In between Christmas, knee surgery and New Year Eve, I didn’t publish the post number 11 of my personal challenge, but on the other side, this time of the year is notoriously a time of self-indulgence and self-overfeeding so I forgive myself urbi et orbi.

Anyway, this is post #11.

In post-operation recovery I finished reading a self-help book that I really enjoyed: “How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World”, a classic written in 1973 by Harry Browne.

Harry Browne was an American and run twice for the Presidential campaign for the Libertarian Party…. yes, a self-help book written by a politician!?

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11 things from 2011

As anyone in the blogosphere, I should write a post looking back to 2011 and another one listing the resolutions for 2012. Maybe I should say that “end of the year is always a good moment to stop and analyze” or something like that.

But truth to be told – I spent a fair amount of time already during the year thinking over what I’m doing, where I stand, what I want, how to get it etc. etc.
I even read a book called “What Should I do with my Life“!

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My knee hurts! – and why this is good news

Today if I shift my weight on the left leg, and bend the knee forming a 40-something degrees angle, I can clearly feel a tremble and a slight pain in the frontal-lower part of the knee, where the tibia (or shinbone or shank bone) and fibula (or calf bone) are connected.

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