Oct 18 2008
we are back from sri lanka, after a trip imposed by bureaucracy. but yes, i agree, there are worst places on earth where to remain blocked for two weeks while waiting for a visa. we stayed in colombo and unawatuna, a paradise beach in the south of the paradise island. here are some pictures, as usual with no comments.
Aug 31 2008
it’s been a while since i was seeing ants on my desk, passing over my laptop. i never paid special attention since here we have ants more or less everywhere. but then i realised that they must have built a colony somewhere close to my desk since that was the only place where i was seeing them. and finally last night i discovered: after leaving a bottle of beer on the desk for some time (less than 1 hour), i found it completely covered with red ants. a red moving carpet was coming back and forth to the bottle from my external hard drive! i could not believe it. did that mean that the colony was actually inside my disk? i decided to open it and this is what i found out:
Jul 26 2008
just back from a three weeks holiday in italy, mainly in florence but also donoratico, gardone and mantova. family, friends and a lot of good food. enjoy some pictures.
Mar 29 2008
easter in mamallapuram, a temple-site close to the beach, in tamil nadu (soth india), classified by unesco as world heritage. we found an unexpected hard rain, but the weekend was very nice. see the pictures of pietro exploring the temples…
Dec 27 2007
i am back from a very short (but intense!) trip to kerala, on the south-western indian coast. we stayed mostly in varkala, at the bomboo village on the north end of the cliff. many tourists (most of them europeans and north americans) and a sort of india_is_the_shanti_way environment. but the place was really nice and, for once, being a “normal” tourist is not bad. and what is normal, after all?
during our stay in varkala, we made a one-day trip to the back-waters a sort of lagoon with thousands of small canals that can be sailed by small boats. pietro is wearing a hand-made safety jacket (which was not safe at all, btw!) while we were trying to protect him from the sun with an authentic keralan umbrella. we had the traditional kerala chai, we saw men repairing boats in the traditional way and women making ropes with coconut fibres (at a rate of 200 ropes per day or 6 hours work. one day is payed 100 INR - 2 EUR. when they come home they still have to do house works). this area is apparently covered by electricity, cable and bradband internet. probably the rope-making women don’t have much time to surf on the net, but maybe their husbands do.
Dec 27 2007
this (the pictures that follow, i mean) is what christmas looks like in pondicherry. not quite sure that all the lights you see were put there just for christmas, though, but the city is very nicely decorated, for one reason or another (maybe the president’s visit to pondy?). in these days, the local government is promoting a vaccination campaign against filariasis. a big (fake) mosquito is lying on the beach, to recall people’s attention. and to wake-up my nightmares…
Dec 06 2007
a sunday at the kailash resort, some 10 Km from pondicherry to celebrate pietro’s birthday. Continue Reading »
Nov 30 2007
a small party we had with our new friends in pondy for pietro’s first birthday!
Nov 29 2007
first pictures from our new place in pondy. still unfurnished, but big!
