Reading is so nice…
My darling Francy likes reading very much. I’m proud of this, so I buy a lot of books for her.
As soon as she finish one book, we go to a small bookstore here in Turin go choose a new book: she likes Geronimo Stilton’s series but I hope she will start soon to read some classical book for young girls.
My new Iphone
At the end I took the great decision: I bought an Iphone 3GS 16. It’s very nice, but it has also to become useful!
So I started to study how to develop for it; web applications are simple but I prefer real appls. Now I need a Mac to install the SDK…
Biru e’ Concas
Near Sorgono, Sardinia, there is a very fascinating site: Biru e’ Concas. Here there are a lot of menhirs, more than one hundred. They are in long lines, or in circles. It’s a site developed before the era of “nuraghi”, so it’s real ancient, at least two thousands years before Christ.
Visiting Biru e’ Concas is something like an adventure in the time and in the space: it’s necessary to pass a gate, used to close a pasture land for sheeps; then there is an hill, and al least, in the middle of a nice wood of cork oaks, there are the menhirs… The land is inhabitated, so it’s very fascinating.
San Giovanni di Sinis
Here at San Giovanni di Sinis, near Cabras, Sardinia, last summer I spent some wonderful days with my family. In this sea, at less than 2 meters of depth, and 50 meters from the beach, there are morais (Muraena helena L.), groupers (Serranus gigas, Brunn.), neptunegrass (Posidonia oceanica L.)…
Microscope
Last year Francesca has received a microscope as Christmas’s gift.
She is a little too young to use it by herself, but I hope that soon she’ll begin to appreciate it.
We have watched some insects, some cells, and our blood too. I think that this microscope could become an important tool to increase Francesca’s curiosity and willingness to learn always more things in the scientific and naturalistic field. She already like very much to watch television programs like “Superquark” and “Passaggio a Nord Ovest”, so it’s really probable that she’ll develop a scientific attitude, thanks also to school activities and visits to the Natural Sciences museum here in Torino.
Is Arutas
The beach of Is Arutas, near Cabras, in Sardinia, is a really unique beach: its sand is composed only of particles of quartz. It has been generated during thousands of years (after last glaciation, 10.000 years ago) from the disaggregation of quartz rocks on the “Mal di Ventre” island, that is in front of Is Arutas.
Collecting and moving away sand from this beach is prohibited. I’m very pleased that this prohibition is in force and respected, because in this way the beach is protected, and a lot of people begins to understand that our Nature has to be preserved for the future generations.
Cardium edulum
I have found this nice shell at “Lido Sottovento”, Gallipoli. I like to swim with goggles, searching for life forms to observe. When I find a shell, or something else that could be collected, I bring it and maintain in my wonderful ice-cream boxes!!!
Every summer in this way I increase my collection: mainly shells, but also corals, leaves, rocks, and so on. What I can’t collect, I picture in a photo.
I think that collecting is a nice hobby, that young boys and girls don’t like in these days… but it enhance our observation attitude, our tranquillity, our ability to think before to act (shells are so fragile!). I hope my daughter will choice an hobby: for now she likes reading.
Monocle
Since October 2009, I have a subscription to Monocle. It’s a magazine based in London, but it collects news and article from all over the world.
It’s mainly business, fashion, well-being, travel oriented, but I like it because it give me a from-outside-of-Italy view of the world. It doesn’t contain any gossip, sport, not useful news, but it’s full of nice advices about business, suggestion about how to spend some day of vacation, where to find, on the Internet or in real life, interesting items.
Last but not least, it emanates a scent of Old England, that I like very much and make me a little less sad about not visiting London since 2005…
A sunset on Gallipoli
No words are enough… a photo is better!
all photos on this magazine are (C) Roberto Giungato
