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fusion food

Posted on July 21, 2011 @ 6:00 pm by massimo | Filed under: advertisement,ancona,beach,blog,food,fun,holidays,mediterranean,news,people,travel,ukiyo-e,wordpress

Among the  thousand reasons that make an Italy holidays very peculiar, there is food. Italian food is higly reputed due to  its traditional quality and variety. Yet, as for the rest of western or westernising  countries, (I apologise for my bizarre neologism) a new  cooking trend has gained little by little more passionate fans, even in the conservative Italy: the fusion cuisine.  The most creative Italian chefs deals with fusion and try their best in order to create new appealing dishes, which invariably make use of ingredients from distant and different cooking stiles. Here is a good example! The Ristorante Clandestino chef is truly influenced by Japanese food and he is invariably able to produce some funny, inusual, always excellent, food combinations. To underline the concept, last but not least, the management of this cozy beach restaurant, called it SUSCI restaurant instead of SUSHI restaurant, but you won’t understand the pun unless you speak Italian!

books

Posted on June 15, 2011 @ 2:32 pm by massimo | Filed under: advertisement,africa,blog,books,flights,island,kenya,lamu,news,people,wordpress

Sitting on the terrace of the house in front of mine there is a blonde middle-aged woman who reads. Every night, before leaving my book on the big bench made of gray wooden planks and slowly going  to bed downstairs, I rest a mo men t to look at her… In the clear air of the African night, swept by the breeze, this still figure intrigues me. I find out difficult to give myself a reading as deep as that of the woman, and I wonder about her book content, something which keeps her on that windy tiny terrace night after night: adventure? Philosophy? A romance of the crime? A travel book on Flights to Florida? Soon she too will lay her book on the floor and turn her face around for a while – I fancy, before I go down the steep stairs to my room. Actually she never did it…

Illustration Fridays topic is: swept

migrants

Posted on June 7, 2011 @ 4:14 pm by massimo | Filed under: advertisement,africa,another green world,blog,fear,holidays,island,mediterranean,news,people,politics,wordpress

A Malta holidays presents an opportunity to discover a country and a different culture only a short distance away from Sicily. The island strategic position, in between Europe and Africa, half way Gibraltar and the Middle East made it a perfect stronghold for the consecutive colonizers. The Phoenicians, the Romans, the Arabs, the Angevins, the Aragonese, the Knights of Saint John and the British were amongst them – all with just one goal: to control the middle of the Mediterranean. Traces of these cultures can still be found throughout the island: Phoenician tombs, The Roman Villa and several Roman and early Christian catacombs; The ancient city of Mdina with its Arab past (as does the place name itself). The capital city of Valletta is an open history book on the era of the Knights of St. John, when Malta was the southest  stronghold of European Christianity. This role seems to work even nowdays: Malta is on the route of the boats carrying migrants from Africa, but the Maltese government, just like the Italian one, does not shine in providing help and hospitality. Recently a leading Italian NGO has filed a report to the International Criminal Court  and the International Court of Justice in The Hague calling on them to investigate Malta’s ‘failures’ to adhere to international maritime rules with regards to search and rescue. While the Italian, Maltese and French governements debate on the grotesque topic, if the migrants status is that of political refugees or clandestines, at least 1000 Africans shipwrecked and drowned since January 2011, in the effort of  reaching our coastlines. Long live Fortress Europe!

Lamu night life

Posted on June 6, 2011 @ 5:51 pm by massimo | Filed under: advertisement,africa,beach,blog,fun,holidays,island,kenya,lamu,music,people,travel,wordpress

You might ask what on earth there is to do on an Islamic Island at night? The answer could be join a full moon party, a must almost for every tourist!  The party happens at the Shela beach and usually music is played by small  portable music systems. The …

still life

Posted on May 28, 2011 @ 8:52 am by massimo | Filed under: advertisement,blog,fun,holidays,japan,people,ukiyo-e,wordpress

I really appreciate  the very peculiar   process of falling into sleep and, possibly, dreaming. Every time it happens it is like setting sail softly bound to some still  unknow region of our mind or personality. And as for  every real journey, we actually cannot plan much of what we are going …

John Fowler t-shirts

Posted on May 25, 2011 @ 4:59 pm by massimo | Filed under: advertisement,bangkok,blog,fashion,fun,holidays,package tour,people,t-shirt,thailand,ukiyo-e,wordpress

Is Bangkok  the number one destination among  cheap package holidays? It’s hard to say ; indeed  this big city makes several thousand tourists welcome every year. Despite its monstrous traffic jam, pollution and hot climate, as for any other metropolis Bangokok has got a subtle appeal to many visitors, something …

ablution

Posted on May 24, 2011 @ 11:21 am by massimo | Filed under: africa,blog,cheap,fun,holidays,illustration,island,kenya,lamu,news,people,travel,wordpress

The road trip from Malind to Lamu is a time consuming one. I found out that the road conditions have not changed much after 25 years. My second trip to Kenya dates back to 2009 and actually the very reason to get back,  was my need to compare the …

fashion in Himalaya

Posted on January 22, 2011 @ 6:16 pm by massimo | Filed under: advertisement,bargain,blog,fashion,himalaya,illustration,people,ukiyo-e,wordpress

There is no better time than winter to  win and wear a pair of trendy Whooga ugg boots! Even in Himalayan valleys Whooga are quickly gaining recognition among fashonable women as a popular alternative brand of sheepskin boots with their legendary thick Thermofleece foot bed. Simply follow them on Twitter or sign …

boat people

Posted on December 28, 2008 @ 11:48 am by massimo | Filed under: africa,another green world,beach,blog,illustration,island,news,people,politics,travel,wordpress

Someone told me on the Vietnamese boat people who had landed on Pulao Kapas’ beach many years before.  I came across the boat’s wreck a few d ays later. The boat’s left over, nearly completely buried by the sand, really struck me. I stopped and stayed by that …

a surprising man…

Posted on August 22, 2008 @ 10:52 am by massimo | Filed under: another green world,art,bargain,blog,boracay,fashion,fun,illustration,india,island,news,people,philippines,thailand,travel,ukiyo-e,wordpress

I like to edit again an old post written on November the 22, 2006…this fellow had a totally anti-routine life…it’s worth taking a look at his “biography” that my friend Gino edited recently in his blog.
Enjoy!

Among the strange people that I met, Max Maxwell is certainly the most unfathomable. I firstly met Max …

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