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A casa

August 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

Finalmente sono a casa, a Cesena. Sono arrivato martedì in Italia, e mi sono concesso qualche giorno offline.

Da domani, lunedì 3 agosto, si ricomincia anche la vita 2.0. E quindi con il blog.
Ma che caldo fa? Di quel bel clima fresco e temperato della Finlandia non si sa più niente?
E poi mi tocca scendere dall’aereo [...]

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Tags: Lifestyle · oulu

Dopo essere stato a Capo Nord mi sembrate tutti piú terroni

July 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Just some pictures to summarize this amazing experience to North Cape and to the northern point of Europe, that’s not North Cape (or Nordkapp, as the call it in Norvegian) but Knivskjellodden.

The monument in North Cape
First some suggestion if you’re planning to go to North Cape by car o by motorcycle. If you’re travelling through [...]

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Am I enough finnish inside?

July 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Today I went to Tokemanni. That’s what I’ve bought.

Technorati Tags: beer, erasmus, experience, finland, finnish, inside, lapin kulta, olut, oulu, salmon, suomi, tokemanni

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Heading to North Cape

July 9th, 2009 · No Comments

Terve guys, I’m just leaving to North Cape, Norway. The northern point (even it’s on an island) of all Europe. It will be quite a long journey from Oulu to North Cape: almost 900 km each way, to pass from our 65° to the 71° of this northern point of our continent. I’ll so far [...]

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Pizza Berlusconi

July 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Pizza Berlusconi. No, it’s not a joke and it’s not because it costs 10 euro so it’s like stealing money. There’s a funny story behind this name. It’s related to one old Berlusconi’s gaffe about finnish food. Then Finnish Koti Pizza won a contest in New York and in second position there was an Italian [...]

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La cattiva notizia è che Dio non esiste…

July 1st, 2009 · No Comments

…quella buona che anche in Finlandia lo sanno.

La campagna pubblicitaria ateista in Finlandia (dal sito della tv pubblica YLE)
Vi ricordate la campagna dell’Uaar censurata in Italia? Quella con lo slogan
“La cattiva notizia è che Dio non esiste. Quella buona è che non ne avete bisogno”.

Technorati Tags: ateobus, atesiti, autobus, campagna, cattiva notizia, censura, dio, dio [...]

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Postcards from Finland – 1

June 28th, 2009 · No Comments

At least, a sunny weekend. Now I’m entering in my last month in Finland (28 June-28 July) and it’s time to send you some postcards… Ok, this time are funny pictures, soon I’ll try to make a selection also of panoramic pictures, and it shouldn’t be difficult.
Let’s start with an italian guy…

The first is Commisario [...]

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Booked. July 28th, 2009.

June 16th, 2009 · No Comments

It’s done. Well, I have to survive here other 40 days, maybe something more. Then it will be time to flight back to Italy, where I’m missing since last 31st of December. Except these 10 days at the end of the year, I’m out of Romagna since the 20th of october. It was a monday, [...]

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8th June – The day without sunset

June 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Oulu, 8th june. There won’t be sunset today. Crazy. And amazing.

In this period days are so long, sun is rising half past 2 in the morning and the sunset is approx at midnight. Just half and hour before, while I was writing on Facebook and listening the last news from Italian election, I gave a [...]

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Sunday, sun, summer. And work, doh!

May 31st, 2009 · No Comments

- certo le circostanze non sono favorevoli
- e quando mai?
- bisognerebbe … bisognerebbe niente
- bisogna quello che è. Bisogna il presente
Pgr – Cronaca Montana

It’s sunday, the last sunday of May. After almost two week of bad weather, finally here in Oulu there’s again a beautiful sun. No clouds, no wind. I can cleary see the [...]

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