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fierce

Posted on June 29, 2008 @ 4:10 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog,books,illustration,indonesia,people,travel,wordpress

The train from Jakarta to Surabaya had slowly left in the late afternoon; sitting in my second class berth, I was contemplating the nearby thriving tropical landscape from one of the wagon’s window, when a fellow swiftly entered my compartment. He was an elderly tall man with an old fashioned suit on. This unexpected travelling companion fascinated me immediately. Actually he looked like one of Conrad’s literary heroes, with a deep mystery of his own. I fancied about him, a man travelling on a shoestring at a time in his life when most of people have settled down for ever…I started to gaze at him apprehensively, somehow trying to send him a silent and gentle enquiry: “just talk to me”. On the contrary the old man looked at me fiercely for some everlasting seconds, then got up and- as quickly as he had entered-he got out and vanished…
I wonder if he had put me at the top of his danger list just for being so much like he was.

Illustration Friday’s topic is: fierce

elettricity

Posted on May 10, 2008 @ 5:54 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog,fear,illustration,indonesia,island,news,people,philippines,sailing,travel,wordpress

Lightnings are electrical discharges, giant sparks of electricity, from mature storms. Lightnings cause a lot of electric current to pass through water; wooden boats are not safe at all since the vast majority of lightning injuries and deaths occur on small boats with no cabin…
The short sea passage between Gili Trawangan and Gili Air found me on board a small local boat without a cabin. It is always crucial to listen to the weather on a small aquatic vessel: during that early afternoon at sea, the sky was threatening, thunderstorms were forecast and lightnings too…
When the first powerful strike came and the air filled with static electricity on a giant scale, the anxious boatman pumped up the engine, trying to get the boat fast, trying to get to land and find a safe shelter: actually it was raining and pouring! The storm went on for half an hour and our navigation turned out to be very uncomfortable…
When we got Gili Air’s sandy beach at last, everything was over: off course!

Illustration Friday’s topic is: elettricity

captain

Posted on August 19, 2007 @ 9:13 am by massimo | Filed under: bargain,blog,cheap,fun,illustration,indonesia,island,news,people,sailing,travel,wordpress

The Mentaway Archipelago located  in the Indian Ocean, at about 100 miles off Sumatra’s west coast, used to be  far off beaten tourists’ routes…
A small cargo ship,  a tramp steamer almost, shuttled among those islands, carrying stuff of all sort and a few passengers. Coming to each island, the slow cargo finally anchored a few hundred meters from the seashore, waiting for the natives coming by means of paddle boats to get their stuff…it was a time consuming processes, and a beautiful way of travelling by sea. On board that ship I was too; as the only first-class paying passenger, I had the privilege of sleeping in the captain’s little cabin, instead of lying low the bare and rusty deck meant to ordinary native passengers. When off his duty the captain, a young, cute, well mannered fellow,  spent his time in the cabin and liked to tell about his young wife and family, who lived somewhere in the islands: in a house, he said, “where you can’t see the ocean, nor hear its sound”…

Illustration Friday’s topic is: captain

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