Nothing very original: I like travelling, reading, listening music, writing, playing LEGO with my son Leonardo, good food and having sex. And not necessarily in that order.

Yes, just another honest man...

Well, I haven't travelled enough, nor ever I will. Actually, I discovered travelling quite late. Too late.

As a general rule, I prefer work travels than holyday ones, as you can stay longer, get payed for that, and get in touch with a lot of people in a more natural way.

Since I discovered that, I travelled in most of Europe, but even in Asia, Africa, Oceania, US and Antarctica, spending more than a month in Italy (ok, just for the record...), France, the Netherlands, Spain, Canary Island (not topologically connected with the previous country, even if it is a political part of it), Finland, Seychelles, Australia, New Zealand, USA and Antarctica.

I spent less than a month in UK, Luxembourg, Switzerland Liechtestein!), Germany (and DDR before unification), Austria, Belgium, Jugoslavia (before its disruption), Russia, Hong Kong, Japan, Djibouti, Morrocco, Libia, Tunisia, Malta (but I was very joung).

Should I suggest where to go, I would reply "to do what?". For example, place like the Seychelles Island are not very popular between independent traveller, and thank suitable more for silly honeymoon travel than for serious travelling, but, if you get there and avoid the circuit of resort everywhere, you will slowly discover a country with a very proud population, with not too many - and to much - rich, but not too many - or to much - poor. And, even more important, just one TV channel with NO COMMERCIAL AT ALL. At least up to 1999. Amazing, isn't it.

Should I get into a nuclear shelter, and should I be allowed to bring with me just 5 CDs, I would bring:

• The Cello Suite 1, 2, and 3, by J. S. Bach, possibly played by Anne Bylsma
• The Don Giovanni, by W. A. Mozart
• The Matthaus Passion, by JSB again
• Jealous Guy , by John Lennon
• Something from the Italian VII century like Francesco Maria Veracini, or Antonio Bassano. Try NOW if you don't know them!

In music, my personal consultant is my wife and companion Jolanda, that introduced me to pretty unknown stuff - at least for a non professional like me - that sometime really surprised me. She has been able to suggest me pretty amazing pieces.

I mean, of course Beethoven IX Symphony is a monument to music, it has a universal value, it can speak to everybody in the world, but...

...sometime you can find some music, pretty not so well known, but just magic, that seems speaking only to you, like the most amazing poetry, L'Infinito, by Giacomo Leopardi (or, well, La scienza in cucina e l' arte di mangiar bene, by Pellegrino Artusi).

And to find that, you need some good technical consultant. And, luckily, I found it just in my wife.

For some reason people think that anybody can get into any definitive discussion about music. No one could do that with the same ingenuity with science, but for some reason people think you can decide if a performance is good or not at any level of details, no matter how many technical aspects or experience you know.

Manuscript of L'infinito, by Giacomo Leopardi (Visso, Archivio Comunale)
from the Liber Liber web page

...e 'l naufragar m'e' dolce in questo mare.

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