‘The world as I like it’ Archives
Salone del Libro di Torino
Last saturday I went to the Turin's Book Fest. It's a nice event and there I usually buy a lot of books, mainly books that are very difficult to find into normal bookstores. This year the main theme of the fest was "Primavera digitale" (Digital spring): I attended to a presentation about self publishing; it's very interesting that now writers [...]
Sartiglia
During Carnival, in Oristano there is a wonderful event, the Sartiglia. And we had the opportunity to live it with our relatives... a nice day.
A wonderful day
It was two days before Easter 2012... A warm, calm, wonderful day to have a brief journey in the "Pizzo" natural park, in south Gallipoli. We parked the car under a pine tree, walked for 15 minutes in a nice wood, and then arrived to the sea... It was of a thousand of colors, full of life, ready for a spectacular summer season. On the shores, a [...]
Piazza dei Miracoli
Pisa has been our city for four years, during our university studies. Giulia and I studied computer science at Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa. It was a very demanding course, we spent very long hours studing math, algebra, geometry, calculus, physics, programming in a lot of different programming languages, but it was also [...]
Campo S. Silvestro
At least one time per year we love to have a nice travel, visiting some beautiful place. Last october we visited Venezia. Our hotel room was on Campo S. Silvestro, near Rialto bridge. It was a very calm place... On last morning "acqua alta" presented a big surprise to us: we liked Venezia also with the sea in the "calli" and Piazza San Marco.
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 [...]
