It's a shiny noon here in northwestern Italy, and the owner of this blog is enjoying his first hours back in hometown after yesterday's hell of a journey:
London epic fog (which I have barely met in one full year of London based life) did its best to delay my flight from Gatwick airport, and in the end we took off with almost 3 hours delay. I must admit that the sight of the boeing in front of us just disappearing in the fog while still firmly on ground and not even a furlong away was quite a scary one.
First thing I did when arrived in Milan was supposed to be having a proper coffee, but instead I had a (maybe not-so-proper) cannolo with Roi, which was an excellent mix for my mood. Then a walk through a Milan in a Xmas high (ehy, the Duomo looks so white and neat now that it's clean!) and finally the long commuting to my hometown, where I hit bed safe and sound at 1 o'clock in the night (well, after a few more social drinks at the loco artsy winery).
One thing impressed me a lot in the said winery: there, in a corner, there was a small box... with a bookcrossing sticker on it! If social media hit Alessandria, anything can happen. As the Time said (and everybody bounced), we are officially mainstream.
Being here also brought me back to one of my favourite blogging dilemma: which language, and which topics to which blog (assuming one I don't love to repeat myself). A while ago (that is, on the most recent iteration of the blogging dilemma) I decided to keep all the diary like entries, together with innuendos and research/geeky stuff here, while keeping the Italian blog for more fun, ludicrous (and somehow geeky too) stuff.
Problem is, Italy offers nowadays a lot of interesting conversations and quite an active social mediascape, and it's difficult to join them with this kind of setup: on average Italian readers stop at Giocolando and get just that "mask", ignoring this one.
A long story made short, I'm considering closing the Giocolando experiment for the time being, and maybe re-investing that time and effort in making contribution to other italian streams (Andrea, Leandro, Sergio, I'm looking at you :) ).
You're in Italy? Now?? A phone call to your friends???
ZUCCONE! :D
You're in Italy? Now?? A phone call to your friends???
ZUCCONE! :D
You're in Italy? Now?? A phone call to your friends???
ZUCCONE! :D
You're in Italy? Now?? A phone call to your friends???
ZUCCONE! :D