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 introduced me to the movie Lisbon Story, by Wim Wenders, I got fascinated by the simplicity of the city… Continua a leggere How about Tel Aviv, Israel
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Two-thousand-twelve-ing, or Twenty-Twelve-ing?
While my friends and I repeated the celebration of the new year last Saturday, countdown included, the masses in New York City are confused about how to call it, this newborn 2012:
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… Continua a leggere 11 things from 2011
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.
Turning Gold
With this week round-trip flight to Warsaw, Poland, I’m turning Gold. Gold as the membership status of the frequent flyer program FlyingBlue, status that I’m reaching first time in my life after flight number 30 in an intense year of traveling, and also as you can imagine the only golden thing I could care about.