8 posts tagged “pisa”

What I remember from that day is not completely clear...I mean I do remember everything...but it is a kind of vague memory, something not well defined...
I remember the tension of the days before...as well as the stress of that morning...I remember the tiredness at the end of few weeks in which the things to do seem to be never-ending and the time you have seems too short even for a coffee...
It is the last day of the University...after years when the target seemed very far away, it is the day in which you see all your past effort materializes, it is the day in which to study is no longer a duty...it is the day of the graduation...
When everything was finished, everything was even more confused...I do remember really a little from the day...if not many phone calls and texts received...
but if I have to say now...I don't remember what I said to all the people...so great it was the emotions and the relief...it must have been something also stupid sometimes... :)
I wish I had lived that time a bit more relaxed and I had enjoyed it more than what I did...but maybe this is something easy to say afterwards...but not realistic.
And two years later what has changed...? Well...hard to say...since on the 7th of June I was already back to work. I didn't really feel and experience the change from the Uni to the working environment...if not maybe one year before when I first moved to Bristol to start the placement...Nevertheless, work wise the experience grows a little bit everyday...and the work become more interesting to more you deepen the knowledge...the more you get familiar with it...So far so good...

Two more things...all the other pictures and the thesis...really in case you have nothing better to do...!

Off to Italy again...tomorrow, early morning...hopefully...(Easyjet flight to Pisa has been has been canceled today, so touch wood...). Once again it is wedding time, "la Vale" this round...with whom I took classes and studied for 5 long years at the University...

As usual the weekend looks already pretty busy...as I said, tomorrow morning the wedding near Pisa...which is a good way also of seeing some of the guys I went to Uni with...But this is only the beginning... in the night I am gonna have a dinner with the old classmates from the high school...I am pretty excited about that...cos some of them I haven't seen for ages really...definitely not since I have moved to England...So it is indeed a good chance to catch up on things...and talk and laugh together a bit…

Sunday morning 11-a -side football match, then Fiorentina for the last match of the season...and then dinner with the guys I used to play Basketball with...over 10 years ago...And again there are some people I haven’t seen for years...for years... It is all so exciting...especially if you live far from everybody...and therefore you never really have the chance to see them... I do not what they are doing, how they are doing...but at the end of the day these are the faces I have spent long good years with…Cool...I can’t wait...!

Few minutes before saying goodbye to my dad (we where already at Pisa Airport) he asked me "How do you feel (by now), going back to England? What are you sensations every time you have to leave Italy?". That was a good question...and it was something I asked myself sometimes...Florence is my city, and it will always be where I will eventually go back; at the moment though most of my life is in Bristol. My job's here, many of my friends are here, all my stuff is here...I feel here to be my place...3 years are not a lot...but enough for me to say that.
In the beginning, every time I had to come back to UK, it was like I was going somewhere where "I had to go", where I was doing a great experience but still a place that in the very end I was not familiar with. It was a sort of burden...even though it vanished as soon I was boarding the plane...Today I am no longer crossed by this sort of perception, but I rather feel I am going back home...
The flight was OK apart from a the most noisy school trip ever...straight to work from the airport...and then back to Hughenden Road late in the afternoon...to get some rest after a tiring weekend...

...AKA Bristol - Milan Malpensa this afternoon...and then a week-end travelling around Italy. A night near Varese, a wedding (the second in two week) on the Lake Maggiore and a dinner in Milan on Saturday...and finally at home on Sunday early morning...Just 24 hours and it will be time to go back to Bristol (from Pisa this time) on Monday morning...It will be tiring...but usually when is tiring is cool...cos there are many things to do...

I usually don't like to mix things up...but I have to say it today...!!! WELL DONE FIORENTINA!

What a long journey form Florence to Bristol...!
It's quicker to get to Vancouver I guess...! :)
I left my place at 5.20pm, to catch the 6 o'clock train...
My friend Angelica picked me up at Pisa station and took me to the Airport...
We had dinner together (slice of tuna pizza) and a nice conversation on the latest news...
It's a classic, by now, to see her on my way back to Bristol...and it's always cool...
Flight to London Stansted at 9.10pm.
I was a bit worried to have problems to restart the engine of my little Twingo...
instead...once again "she" didn't abandon her captain...! It's a very special relationship between me and her...! :)
Three hours driving in the rain (as if it wasn't enough the three days of rain I had in Italy),
a cappuccino and a muffin near Reading...and back to Bristol by 2.20 am...
10 hrs after the departure from my home town, Grassina...

But that's all right...it wasn't too heavy...and there is always an iPod that helps in this...!
Going to sleep now...that in less than 5 hours I have to get up...a new week is starting...with a day less...!!! ;)

As I said couple of days ago the MetOfiice issued a warning for heavy snow for Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and West and South on England. The warning has been updated and was extended to the Midlands and also the eastern part England. However, tonight there has been quite a clear downgrade, especially for south of England. Latest models' runs don't foresee that much of snowfall.The snow is always hard to predict...in England it is twice as much harder.
Nevertheless, even if the snow will not be on its way to Bristol, tomorrow night I will be on my way to Stansted Airport...to catch the Ryanair flight to Pisa, Saturday, early morning...

It has been quite a long day...but finally I got home...even if a bit tired...
The flight was scheduled at 13.10, but by the time we got to the airport it was announced 1 hour of delay.
The queue at the security control was massive...you cannot believe...It occupied all the airport lounge...up and downstairs...It took 55 mins to get through...crazy...At the end the plane took off at 14.50...just 1h and 40 minutes late... :(
The flight was smooth...few chats with friends, Marco, il Sir (Alessandro AKA AlJazeera), la Sere and Francesco...
and a bit of reading. I have almost finished "Love Over Scotland", the third book form the "44 Scotland street" series.
I have already bought the new book (just added in the book session) which is called " The World according to Bertie"...Bertie, a clever 5 years old boy, is my favourite carachter...so it should be a good reading...
We got to Pisa at about 18:00...and then Taxi Patrizio, (my dad) took me, Marco and Francesco to Florence.

Mummy cook a good dinner...actually she made the second course, spezzatino con patate. As first course we had ribollita, a tipical florentine course. Nonna made it...just for me (you know, the grandson was coming back after 3 months...she had to do something...!!! GRAZIE NONNINA....!!!!!!!!!! ). It was just delicious...!!!

To finish the day, I went out with Tommy for a quick drink...we went da Bobino...but only for an hour...we were both tired...tomorrow it is gonna be another long day...

Happy to be back home...tiring as usual though...nite nite...

It all started over a year ago, when Bjorn bought his German mug in Munich during the world cup, promising to give it as a present to someone coming from the country of the world cup winner. Italy won...but too many Italians were around...so Bjoern decided to keep the mug...
Unfortunately though the mug was kidnapped...and some evidence that it was still alive were sent to him...

The mug then returned to his master as a prize for the best German dressed...during the "L party" in January.

Few days after the mug was kidnapped again from Gary...who gave it to Spenny...but while Spenny was keeping the mug at his desk , and looking after it very carefully...Bjoern spotted his mug again...and took it back...
That was a not acceptable...so few hours later Manch with a quick phone call gave order to one of his friend to nick the mug again from Bj's desk as soon as he had the chance... The job was done in the same afternoon... and here is where everything started to build up...

THE MUG AROUND THE WORLD
We decided to take the mug with us everywhere we would have gone...and then "we will do somethoing by then end of the year..." we said...