You may say I'm a dreamer...

January, Bologna station. It's Friday, a day when you'd like to go everywhere. Why not Le Marche? I was just thinking to go there for a weekend, and I see, from the posters, that I may not be the only one :-)

Sometimes I'm proud to see posters like this: beautiful pics for a beautiful land.

ah...

The pork feast

This year is the 5th edition of Festa del Nino, literally "the Feast of the Pork", as Nino is the local nickname for pork.
All around Italy, the pork is very important, since in the past it represented the only source of food for the family. The death of the family pork was a tragedy far more than the death of a child: you could have a child again, as long as you were alive thank to the pork.

In Le Marche, the pork is undoubtedly the protagonist of the table, together with the rabbit, the chicken and the pigeon, is the meat we traditionally have in the table. Cows and oxes were only to work, rarely to be eaten.

For the Festa del Nino, there is a calendar you can download from here. It's only in Italian, with just the title, but it's possible to call an information office. At least for the dinners which follow the meetings, it sounds worthwhile.

Otherwise, you have another reason to learn Italian :-)

Hot hot days, but the cold weather is coming

The last week has been one of the hottest of the past two centuries. Flowers blooming, bears out of dormancy, cabbages with opened leaves... everything was like in spring. On Friday night, near Modena, in the hills, the temperature was 21°C (70 Fahreneit degrees), like in July.

But now, the cold weather is coming back, and the forecast has said that the cold winds of the North Pole are coming to freeze us. In Northern Europe the weather is terrible: we don't know what will happen here. Probably, we'll have some snow, which is not bad, though.

Shifting to Mac

Ten days ago I bought an Imac. It's been a hard choice, but very very thoughtful. I fell in love with this wonderful designed computer from the first time, then I read some book about it, then, finally, I bought it.

It is a real wonderful experience. He knows everything: which modem is this, which hard disk is this, what I'm about to do and so on. It's so easy to use that sometimes one may feel embarassed in finding some complicate choice as it is in the pc world.

Still some doubts, though, like the one-button mouse which seems to be a sort of "proud" feature, but useless.

Anyway, I expect this mac to wake me up, someday, asking me if I'd like some coffee... :-)

Betsy Pool: are you coming?

Sorry, but this is an important advice, since I can't reply to an email I got few days ago.
So I decided to put a message here: should be seen by my guests.

So, Betsy, are you coming? Please email me at angelo.recchi@gmail.com
I suppose that my reply didn't arrive to you.

Look forward to hearing from you.
A presto!
Angelo

Another blog. In Italian, this time

From last October, I started a new blog in San-Lorenzo.com platform. It's written in Italian.

This new blog deals with tours, but it's more focused on personal tours all around Italy, Europe and world.

Of course, this blog keep on with its randomly posts. Le Marche are always first in my heart :-)

Here is the link to the new blog:
http://blogs.san-lorenzo.com/tourblog

Enjoy!

Oh, bike!

This post is dedicated to the bike. To this marvellous and bio-natural means of transportation. When in Bologna, I usually go biking, or walking: ten years ago, when I started the university, lots of people used to go by bike, now everybody moves around by car, in spite of limited traffic areas, high pollution levels, and so on.

My brother, who lives in Milan, always says that milanesi (inhabitants of Milan), can even survive without air. But not without car.