This weekend I have been to the seaside, on the border between Marche and Abruzzo. Going there has been painful but worthy. Painful because crossing the mountains between Tuscany and Abruzzo means driving on small hilly roads, climbing up to 800 meters. Worthy because it’s been a lot of fun. Read the rest of this entry »
Last night Daniele invited me and some more coworkers to have dinner at his family’s house. They live just outside Firenze, on the first hills of Impruneta. From their windows you can enjoy a breathtaking landscape over the valley. When you are there, in the middle of country and greenfields, it’s hard to believe that place is just 10 minutes from the city.
Yesterday my friends Emanuele and Marilena got married. Emanuele always lived in the countryside and even if he managed to become a professional engineer he’s still very proud of his origins. This is the thing I like the most in Emanuele: he’s so straighforward. After gathering all friends and relatives at his house, Emanuele led everybody’s car to the church driving a SAME tractor. It’s been a lot of fun. Actually they married twice, cause Marilena is waldensian and Manuele is catholic, so they held both ceremonies. Under the sun of July was impossible to wear a suit and quickly everybody took off his coat and tie. Then we moved to the restaurant, where a typically italian not-so-light-as-july-would-suggest several-hours-long lunch was waiting for us. I was sick (maybe hurted from frequent hot sun – airconditioned transitions) and had to leave at 17:30, while they were still eating the 1st round of 2nd courses. Congratulations Emanuele and Marilena! Have a wonderful life together!
This morning me and Anshul left Firenze for a trip to Chianti. He wanted to visit a winery, so I headed myself to Greve. We stopped there looking for some information and to visit a famous wine shop. The tourist info office was closed on sundays and while we were leaving, Jessica, Kate and Lauren, three cute canadian girls, stopped us asking for info and how to get to some wineries. These undergrad students were backpacking around Europe and felt a little lost because they had reached Greve from Firenze on a bus but on sundays almost everything was closed. “We have no car, can we come with you?” Read the rest of this entry »
My friend Stefano argued he can’t find any difference among wines and feels perplexed when sommeliers use all sorts of spice and fruit adjectives to describe them.
You know, wine is just grapevine juice where fermentation transformed sugar into alcool. Water, alcool and tartaric acid. This is all you need to synthetize something that’s technically 99.99% wine. The problem is, if you try tasting this fake wine you quickly discover it’s ugly, has no aroma and feels completely uninteresting. This is because the last 0.01% is what makes a wine great: hundreds of aromatic chemicals. And this is the only part you should care for. Read the rest of this entry »
Two years ago I’ve been to Tel Aviv for work. While I was there, a guy called Yaron (who worked in the company I went there for) tried all the best to make me feel at home. For example he brought me to Jaffa, the Dead Sea and more amazing places. One day I’ll blog about that travel. Last week he’s come to Italy along with his wife and I’ve had the pleasure to meet them in Ferrara, my birth town. I definitely love talking with foreigners, trying to understand their culture. This is how we discover we’re different and there are things we take for granted but shouldn’t. They told me they love Italy, except it’s too expensive and crowded by tourists. They’ll come again, I’m sure 
Last night we’ve been at Cesare’s farewell party and it’s been fun. After the party we ‘ve had even more fun girl-hunting between Piazza Duomo and Piazza Strozzi
Last night I’ve been at a party organized by Carrie in her flat. Carrie works in our Asian marketing dept and is very cool. She cooked amazing dishes, but I don’t know their names. Something like rice with meat, noodles, pork ribs cooked in wine and coca cola and even more weird and delicious things. But the thing I liked the most was the tea. She carried some jasmine tea from Taiwan and it’s the most flavoured and good tea I’ve ever tasted. I’m a tea lover so I definitely need to buy some. After dinner she managed to take some artistic and fetish pictures of our feet, an hilarious exercise. It’s been a wonderful night!
