milanesizzarti tends to Milan.
you analyze, judge you, complain, you discard, you smile.
It 's a city that, To survive, they must be continually justified.
And as a long disease incubation, one day you wake up do not even notice the first symptoms of your milanesizzazione. Small, almost imperceptible signals suggest you that change is underway, any vaccine that ultimately proved useless: in close contact with certain aspects of the city will enter the blood.
begin to speak more often about money, you have solutions for any malfunction, no greetings so often when you go into a bar and never more awkward gestures of kindness that will remain without even a thank you in return. Bile salt you more often and start Malfidano you, you're afraid to make mistakes and export and begin to give weight to the opinions of others even if they are unknown. Choose the first local friends, I get nervous if people underground does not move to the right on escalators, you will not enjoy more moments of rest taken by the frenzy of do, do, do.
But there is a silver lining in all this: the disease has a cure.
and to try until I was in Poland, the southern wastelands of the country, where five hundred to half a scientist and mathematician, had an intuition proved useful to me at this time.
basis of the work of Copernicus is known as the heliocentric theory or the theory that argued rightly that the Earth revolved around the Sun and not vice versa.
In a period of Inquisition and barbarism in fact, while most of the continent regressed to a state of violence and widespread loss of confidence, the Polish scientist revealed that the planet as we knew it was not the center of the universe, but only a part .
But, philosophically, the more remarkable, Miklaja Kopernik thanks to his studies to reveal how the Sun to determine the motion of the Earth, and not the other way.
Or how it is possible that what - found common ground-it makes us passive objects could instead be put into question totally transforming us into protagonists of our present.
Since it had a lot of confidence in Copernicus, I followed his advice and to combat milanesizzazione I flew to Krakow, a city that I had met but said goodbye to fourteen years with the promise to return.
Promise kept in the company of a new traveling companion, Mario, who in addition to those of a friend, roommate and fellow student also acquires the status of the new customer Cassiani Junior Travel.
Ed Krakow was the product I was looking for a city exciting, more beautiful than I remembered, in perpetual motion and a treasure trove of little secrets.
as the district of Kazimierz, Krakow studded with a local Kreuzberg Parisian flavor, the main square (the largest medieval square in Europe) that leaves a feeling of airiness in Milan forgotten the Castle overlooking the Vistula, the paths taken care of the historic center of the explosion of colors' Inside the church of St. Mary, and lively nightlife.
Guests couchsurfers of crazy we could enjoy everything, leaving a 'space also examine the Wieliczka salt mine (who surprised us with a cathedral built entirely of salt to 135 meters below ground level) and to the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Although they had already visited them eleven years ago, leaving the anxiety has not diminished but perhaps it is increased, evidence of the danger of applied science hatred, are a piece of European history from the incredible emotional power. Now that we are gradually losing all direct witnesses of that war, I wonder if future generations will retain vivid memories this drawing it from the books as we do this by associating us with stories of their grandparents.
We go back to Milan full of life, and determined not to leave again in the smog and the complaints of this city sad and distressed.
Spring, stage the definition of which is imminent (I did request for the EU Delegation in Lebanon, to Washington for the IOM and the UNHCR in Geneva, crossed fingers), and the Copernican revitalize the energy lost in March: once again, the heliocentric revolution has wrought in the Middle Ages ease looming.
Big hugs anointed pierogi and wet Zubrowka
Tommy
PS: And finally make public some of the photos of recent trips: after a long wait, here
week in Bohemia Negin, May 2009: # http://picasaweb.google.com/Tommyjay13/PrimaveraBoema
twelve days in Corsica with Negin, Lollo and other friends: http://picasaweb.google.com/Tommyjay13/UnPetitSoujourCorse #
and the famous photo of the summer and expectations with Ethiopian Jaka to the African continent: # http://picasaweb.google.com/Tommyjay13/IlFangoELaCroce
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