Long Life Journey

26/01/2022

From the beautiful Castel Sant'Elmo in Naples, you can have one of the beautiful views of the city. Maybe just on top of The Vesuvio is better :)

360 Degree of the stunning panorama. The Vesuvio, the gulf, the city center, till the islands! What an amazing place to enjoy sunsets!!!

This place is on the top of natural high rock and is basically dominating the city and the gulf.
When I was on the top of this castle the following thoughts caught me.

As I strive to become someone or something in life, I'm not always starting directly from that thing. It can be a profession, a skill, or a position/status. I'm always starting from somewhere else.
For instance, to become a journalist I need before to master words and of course, I need to have creativity in order to write nice and great things. I need moreover to be clear in what I write and explain my thoughts clearly with my words.

Although it's not always possible to do immediately what I would like to do, as for instance be a journalist,
I can throughout the day be aware of the qualities that are paramount to the aim I wanna reach and throughout my day cultivate them and look for those situations where I can enhance those qualities that are important as I will be a journalist.

In order to become a good journalist, I need to use exact words in the correct context, I need to be clear while exposing concepts, and so on...

The rock on which is built the castle represents the reality and the natural situations that life offers me to pursue those qualities, that are so dramatically important for my profession.
It's just a matter of exercise. The castle represents my desired profession or skills/status.

Once I've learned those qualities doesn't matter if I'm writing on a paper or speaking in front of the desk of the Post Office. Because once I've learned to build my caste in front of the giving and available rock, given from my actual reality, next time that I will encounter another plateau or rock where to build a new castle, I will know exactly what it needs to build a strong, solid and suitable castles for the conditions I'm confronted with.

17/01/2022

Last time that I've entered the Colosseum I was maybe 11 years old, with my class of course.
At that time the farthest I was looking was the back of my friends while playing around.

Again after more than 20 years I've visited this monument.
The greatness, the air, the beauty of this building. Everything makes the difference after visiting the Colosseum. I've never been a fan of this place but last time as I was there, my thoughts were submerged in another time.

Really I've felt being in the old Roman Empire and kind of experienced the feeling of being in Rome and what, maybe, it meant being a citizen of Rome, for the Romans at that time.
The marvellous of this ancient giant was astounding and it let me feel the fortune I have to be today a citizen of Rome, the opportunities, the possibilities of learning from its ruins and its treasures.

It was revelatory! Next time, when working with tourists they will ask me "Are you suggesting to visit the Colosseum?" I will only saying :"Do it!"

16/01/2022

Lost shops 🌁📖- I'm sure Rome has lots to offer. But sometimes evading from the crowd and entering old shops where it seems that the time has stopped, gives me the possibility to think yo the city in another way. A real city and not a big Disneyland for tourists (including myself). In this shop for example just behind Piazza Navona I could explore the many lives hence the many objects that people touched and seems almost as that roots me again, remembering me to observe the life eventually not just from my point of view. Many lives passed through the gate, mine is just of the many. For me the most important! But not the only one! Remembering me that I'm just a little piece of the big puzzle of eternity gives me a sort of relief to look from a more so er perspective also the wonderfully beauties of Rome. I'm not the protagonist of those places, just a happy observer of them! :)

15/01/2022

The Details - Details are really an aspect of life so important as the big picture.
Take this picture. It seems that it's just a fountain as many others in Rome. Maybe you would attribute the form to nice amphore, because they are a "Cute form" to make a fountain with. But if you investigate more deeply you will learn that in the neighborhood of Testaccio there is the first dump of the city in the ancient Rome and that eventually this amazing of tons and tons of amphores in the neighborhood create an artificial hill made completely from shards of the amphores.53 Millions to be exact.
The importance of the details is not just about noticing them, but also to deepen into and study the story they may teach.

14/01/2022

The Flying Bird - Being a dreamer, it's not about being a person that is disconnected from reality.
It's more someone that brings his hopes, projects and desires in the realm of the senses hence because he believes in them can eventually realize 'em so fool as they seems.

13/01/2022

Sometimes is tricky to understand, but most of the time, if I cannot feel the thrill of living excited what I'm doing there is something to question. Something I need to change in myself to bring a broader view of a matter, a problem or an activity. That's not just what I'm doing but more the how I'm doing it that's paramount.
Seeing things from a different perspective and living them with a different meaning can turn out to be what makes the difference eventually.
The meaning is the colour with which I'm painting my reality and therefore my activities.
Spending time on these activities and getting better and a broader vision of'em is what should be the parameters with which every time I'm spending time on them I should take care of.

11/01/2022

Aqueducts, chimneys and mountains -

Those three things are always there in the reality but depending from the light, from the snow on the mountains or from the proximity with which I'm looking to them, the landscape can dramatically changing and therefore I can become more or less aware of some details.
But it isn't like this also in life?
We tend to be aware of certain things once we've lost them or as we are approaching them from another perspective although those elements as in the photos, will always remain the same.
So let's be hungry enough to glimpse those details also when everything appears flat and simple. To be able to observe is a skill too.

10/01/2022

When the time will be ripe you will find the place that you can already glimpse between the stones of those villages you are visiting. Till then, go ahead and enjoy what life is offering to you now while cultivating in your heart that desire. Soon or later that garden will open its doors to you. But before making a step more to get through the hardest doors you'll ever meet. Those of your heart.

08/01/2022

As one of those places that are there to be recalled every time I need an inspiration of what should be a better life, this place will for sure pop up in my mind!

08/01/2022

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28/12/2021

26/12/2021

Emotion bombs for free in Rome -

Rome can be a dangerous city. If you want to run away from strong emotions I warmly suggest you to stay away from some monuments and churches where you could hardly stay composed while looking at it. Because of the terrific decorations these pieces of art are for me personally one of the main attractions that a tourist should try to understand in Rome while discovering the city. There are several details that if noticed can show a piece of art under a totally different perspective than it an untrained gaze would perceive. So while visiting the city as you enter the churces, look at those fountains in the middle of the most famous squares and observe the interior of those palaces, go for the details and the movements behind those gesture, that are the passe-partout to the comprehension of the message the artist wanted to convey.

Amazing and astonishing marbles, statues and perhaps the most beautiful drapes you will ever see are hosted in the many visitable churches and palaces of Rome. We are talking about statues made from artist of the calibre of Bernini, Borromini. Without speaking of the gorgeous paintings and frescos of Pozzo, Caravaggio just to mention the most famous.

Now. Those artists have something in common. They all belong to a period of the Italian art that particularly in Rome flourished like nowhere else. We are talking about the baroque.
A period of time included formally between Renaissance and Illuminism. The term baroque comes from the French “baroque” indicating a deformed and imperfect pearl. The term indicate a depreciative connotation that send back to the exaggerated, disproportion absurd of the architectural forms.

A spectacular, stunning, majestic, an theatrical way of expressing the genius of the human mind. The features of a style like this are heavy decorations, pomposity and a tendency for creating a dialogue between the observed and the observer. A connection where the person that are witnessing the work are, briefly, themselves a part of that opera.

Few places where witnessing some of the most fabulous masterpieces of this genre are the churches of Sant’Ignazio da Loyola, Sant’Agnese in Agone and S. Maria della Vittoria.

As you go there, forget for a moment the camera, sit down on the bench or stand up relaxed and let beauty flood your soul. Absorb the work and then start to look the details of the opera. Find the gestures that are more significant and from there try to understand the work. That’s how you’ll be taking part of the work of the artist and so doing you make his soul and his message immortal, feeling him by your side. A travel through the time with a surprising meet.

14/12/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6aq1vSHuZg

BAR ROMOLI

Have you already heard about this caffe?

Well if you haven't, be sure to check it out!
Especially their amazing Maritozzi are worth to try!

What? You don't know what a "Maritozzo" is?
No worry! I've shot a super video to just show you what this food is all about!
After watching the video, be sure you'll not miss this delicious and traditional breakfast-food in Rome!

- SORRY FOR THE FORMAT 1:1, NEXT VIDEOS WILL BE IN 16:9-Just a few days ago on a rainy and cold day in December, I've eventually visited this nice, delicious...

13/12/2021

Just a few days ago on a rainy and cold day in December, I've eventually visited this nice, delicious, and marvelous place. You wanna learn more, what is all about? Do it because is worth the shot.

I went to a really nice cafe called "BAR ROMOLI" - an amazing patisserie, cafe, and bar.

We are in the North of Rome in the so-called "Quartiere Africano" (African neighborhood) because of the many streets that took their name from the city and nations Italy colonized during fascism. It is a sad, but true story.
Indeed that's basically one of the "new" neighborhoods of Rome, built together with the district of Trieste in the first decades of the 20th century, as a neighborhood for the railway workers.

Nowadays the milieu of the neighborhood changed and become partially a neighborhood of the medium-high bourgeoisie.

As you are visiting Rome be sure to visit this place!
I like to go to these places to have my breakfast but as I read, this place is open till 2 o'clock in the night, churning out warm and delicious croissants and nice other sweets.
So, I would say, choose your fav time to go there!

This historic cafe is one of those unforgettable experiences where you would like to enjoy your breakfast in Rome!

Amazing patisserie, traditional sweets, and a great atmosphere you will love to be in. The interiors and the personal are really authentic and that is one of those places you can feel the Romanity (sense of being in Rome) for sure.

Nevertheless, that's not just the atmosphere that counts.
Because the food here is one of those things you should not miss. I warmly suggest you try one of their "Maritozzi" traditional sweets typical from Rome.
Sweet sandwich overfilled with whipped cream, that's an overwhelming shower of sugar if you know what I mean! Sweetness, warmness, and deliciousness stuffed in your hand's palm.

Prices are a bit more than average.
I've spent the following:

Caffe 1 EURO
Maritozzo 3,20 EURO
Sweet 2,20 EURO (also standard croissants are sold at this price)

Standard Breakfast in Rome (1 EURO Caffe - Croissant 1-1,50 EURO)

I would recommend trying the Maritozzo though because are one of the best in the city.

I often eat as breakfast sweet food, but that's not rare to see people consume other stuff as "Tramezzino" a triangle of white bread filled with vegetables, cheese, or cured meat. So here you can find as well them!

When you will be visiting this place write me in the comment and tell me what you think about it!!!
I've found it really nice and for sure I'll try to go back to taste other food.

Have you a favorite place in Rome from which you cannot separate from?

11/12/2021

BE THE BEST DEVIL YOU CAN!

The time has come, you want to do something but you think is wrong, so just before doing it, you stop yourself!

What? What happened to you? Where are your energies, your enthusiasm, your adventurous spirit?

Those qualities are the only things that you have to keep! Who cares about the things you were striving for.
That's not the story that we are interested in!

Those uncontrollable desires and impulses are there to show you what kind of potentials you have. "You are a lot more than you think" is kind of telling you. Trying to show you, you need to explore yourself more and deepen in the understanding of your life.

And that's where the discernment comes. When it is time to take a decision on how to use your energies.
For sure we should use it for the best always avoiding going along the bad road. But I genuinely think that the road should not be cut off our life, but modeled better. Again feeling the same energy we were letting flow when we wanted to run along the old way.

Eventually talking with our devil is not something we want to keep doing because we are busy enough to think about other stuff. But acknowledging those impulses and harnessing them for a more useful outcome is the best we can do to do justice to our friend devil!

08/12/2021

- Two nations with the same soul -

As You know I'm currently living in Italy, precisely in Rome, where you are faced every day with an astonishing beauty that is reflecting the glorious past of the civilization, the kings, the emperors and of the artists that passed in this wonderful and because of its history "Eternal city".

But probably if you've followed me for a while you are aware of my permanence in Turkey for the past couple of years.
I've spent for the first time all alone a month in 2015 and after this holiday I've decided to move for some time there in Turkey. I didn't know why but there was something in Turkey that was intriguing me.

Between the many reasons I think that speaking about the beauty of the country in itself, the two photos here are perfectly explaining what was fascinating me so much of this country.

The first photo was taken in Rome. In the background, the Theater of Marcel and between me and him the 3 columns of the temple of Apollo and the ruins of another temple belonged to Bellona.
In the second picture, we see the city of Bergama in the background with the theater of the ancient city ("The Acropolis") on the left, wonderfully perched in the hill.

Starting from the first picture, because belong to the city where I come from, I want to point out how often when walking in Rome, we are facing a similar view. Ancient Roman ruins alternated by some vegetations that are merging with modern roads and buildings. That's something that belongs to my history and my eyes are used to this kind of landscape.

And now let's go to Turkey. Aren't the same ruins interrupted or submerged from trees and plants and then again from new buildings the scenery we're often observing?

These two nowadays incredibly different countries that have taken different directions in their choices, history, politics, religion and therefore culture, have a lot in common, more than most people think about it. And I'm saying it as ignorant because I'm sure that if we would research deeper through what are the roots and the similarity of these countries we'll find lots more than we think.

Between the many reasons I may count for choosing Turkey as one of my destinations to live one of them has been for sure the terrific richness of its history, the beauty of its nature, and the feeling it was arousing in me about having a second home, somewhere else than Rome.
Most probably is the Mediterranean in itself a really big family that is sharing the same roots.
But Turkey at that time had all the things my conscience needed to push me forward and show me how more rich life was. Richer than I was thinking at that time!

08/12/2021

- Two nations with the same soul -

As You know I'm currently living in Italy, precisely in Rome, where you are faced everyday with an atounishing beauty that is reflecting the glorious past of the civilization, the kings, the emperors and of the artists that passed in this wonderful and because of its history "Eternal city".

But probably if you've followed me for a while you are aware of my permanence in Turkey for the past couple of years.
I've spent for the first time all alone a month in 2015 and after this holiday I've decided to move for some time there in Turkey. I didn't know why but there was something in Turkey that was intriguing me.

Between the many reasons I think that speaking about the beauty of the country in itself, the two photos here are perfectly explaining what was fascinating me so much of this country.

The first photo was took in Rome. On the background the Theater of Marcel and between me and him the 3 columns of the temple of Apollo and the ruins of another temple belonged to Bellona.
In the second picture we see the city of Bergama in the background with the theater of the ancient city ("The Acropolis") on the left, wonderfully perched in the hill.

Starting from the first picture, because belong to the city where I come from, I want to point out how often when walking in Rome, we are facing with a similar view. Ancient Roman ruins alternated by some vegetations that are merging with modern roads and buildings. That's something that belong to my history and my eyes are used to this kind of landscape.

And now let's go to Turkey. Aren't the same ruins interrupted or submerged from trees and plants and then again from new buildings the scenery we're often observing?

These two nowadays incredibly different countries that have took different directions in their choices, history, politics, religion and therefore culture, has lot in common, more than most people think about it. And I'm saying it as an ignorant because I'm sure that if we would researching deeper through what are the roots and the similarity of these countries we'll find lots more than we think.

Between the many reasons I may count for choosing Turkey as one of my destinations to live one of them has been for sure the terrific richness of its history, the beauty of its nature and the feeling it was arousing in me about having a second home, somewhere else than Rome.
Most probably is the Mediterranean in itself a real big family that is sharing the same roots.
But Turkey at that time had all the things my conscience needed to pushing me forward and showing me how more rich life was. Richer than I was thinking at that time!