lives, past &...

a week in california, its been stressfull, I need to work more, but it was the right thing to do to have a close person take precedence.

from now on, I want another person to take precedence.

a bird for all:

sfo/mtv again

Here again. this time I am in the Google bus, that has Wi-Fi inside!
Going down silicon valley, in perfect geek style. The bus bumps a lot though, I'll get a headache soon :(

Somehow, this time I'd like to be somewhere else, strongly.
Somehow.

It's strange, after all these years, I don't get what's cool about the US anymore.
It looks so plain. Not exciting at all.

Maybe only new york will still pass the bar. This country is a large office.

A new era

April. The month is not over, but is already in the records.
It puts February in the records too.

It's a feeling of completion. Closure as well.

I'll try to post pictures soon of the places I've been at.

I am doing 6 countries, 2 continents, 2 currencies all in this single month.

But what's best is not what varies, but what stays the same.
It is the best part of it all.
And it will stay.

Sweet spring! And even sweeter things to come.

Pasqua

Complete Easter.

Music-Church-Home cooked lunch-post lunch rest-park-ice cream.

Mesto dlia dvux.

Cominciano le danze

Oggi Vienna.
E poi via il resto.

Dimenticavo, forse ci infilo anche Budapest.
E in tutto questo anche un viaggio regalo alla Mamma.

Aprile a Dublino

Byzantium

I'd like to spend a few words in favour of the roman empire.

In western europe, we grew up with the notion that the roman empire was ended when rome was taken.
Wrong, it went on. The empire absolutely lived with its imperial traditions long after.
In its new capital. A capital that was chosen much earlier than Roma was taken.
The capital of the emperor, head of the state and representative of Christ.

It was an empire that kept alive science, whose destruction by the turks led to the Renaissance in Italy, driven by the found-again science and philosphy that the greek speaking intellectuals from the roman empire brought with them.

An empire of christians next to muslims. Using arabs, before they were muslims, to fight the germanic tribes. Then using vikings to protect the emperor.

The world has always been a lot closer than we think. Only the last 2 centuries allowed governments to have such a strong grip on citizens and borders could really be closed off.