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Posted on February 23, 2008 @ 11:27 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, fun, philippines, travel, wordpress

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multiple aynaku boracay travel illustration

In the Philippines, the western wind is called Habagat and the rainy season comes with it. The rains in Boracay were usually a bit oppressive to me, as the dullness went on for weeks, driving my mood to absolute lethargy; moreover I was running out of money quickly. All of us were waiting for new tourists to come, and waiting for their money too: finally art rescued me.
Silk-screen printing became an exciting activity, really more than a hobby! I bought good white cotton T-shirts and printed them with my own design…
Tourists, I reckoned, ought to like and buy my home printed T-shirts!
With no shop to run, I gave my multiple masterpieces to a local vendor who stuck them up his shop’s wall and said: “I’ll let you know…“
Nothing else to do but wait; I went back to my bungalow and kept on listening as usual, to the radio’s old sweetie American love-songs…

Illustration Friday’s topic is: multiple

theory travel at home

Posted on February 16, 2008 @ 7:36 pm by massimo | Filed under: africa, blog, travel, wordpress

madagascar aynaku illustration travel

Twenty years ago Madagascar was in my mind: it was the place I wished to go at all costs!
I got hold of guidebooks, maps, and an atlas even; everything that could be possibly useful to me was collected and then recklessly scattered upon my room’s wooden floor…
I spent hours fancying about my travel to Madagascar, and reckoned well to get there by cargo ship from Mombasa Harbour.
At home I planned everything so accurately: even the most insignificant detail was carefully considered. Finally I got a visa at Madagascar Embassy in Rome and flew to Kenya, where I was supposed to stay just a very few days before boarding some cargo ship…
Once I got Mombasa I found out that no ship was about to sail for the promised island before than three months! I soon realized that my so long planned trip to Madagascar had been just illusion, a theoretical nonsense that had brought me somewhere else. But alas! I also understood that despite every personal theory, Kenya was really a fascinating place to be in…

Illustration Friday’s topic is: theory

old manali’s blankets

Posted on February 2, 2008 @ 6:02 pm by massimo | Filed under: another green world, india, travel, wordpress

manali india aynaku illustration travel

Manali, at the northern end of the Kullu Valley in Himachal Pradesh, is a hill station situated at a height of 2050 m in the Himalayas. It is a very popular and crowded tourist spot for Indians and foreigners in summer and in winter: actually too crowded according to my standards.
That’s why, a few days after I got there I moved further north to Old Manali, famous for its orchards and old guesthouses. This impressive array of wonderful, old wooden houses was perfectly deserted by tourists in early January for the very reason that no sort of heating system was provided at night when temperature dropped dramatically…Nothing better for me that lie on the bed under heaps of heavy (so heavy!) woollen blankets and wait for the next sunny morning…
PS
My friend Silvia is travelling Sikkim these days…She dropped me a line a few days ago, complaining for the intense and cold mist surrounding the snow capped peaks around Mirik…I guess she too is dealing with heaps of blankets!

Illustration Friday’s topic is: blankets