The Chemical Brothers - Italia Wave

Well, the festival still have to "grow" … In Arezzo was something else, but I'm sure next year will already better. We were there mainly for the Chemical Brothers but we also got some other cool artists like Bugo and Sud Sound System.

We also went at the Elettrowave, the electronic side of the festival. The location couldn't be better: an old fortress by the sea !

Fortezza Vecchia - Livorno - Via Flickr thanks to livornoalone

See you next year Livorno !

PS : Someone told me that the tower of the "Fortezza Vecchia" in Livorno is taller than the tower of Pisa. Is it true ?

Giusy, Kathrin and me. Thanks to Adeline (on the other side of the camera

Like the last 4 years, few days ago, I was in Clusone for the Estate di S.Martino, I love this village and the feeling you get during the happening. Lovely wine, traditional food and true friends … need more to be happy ?

If the next year you wanna come mark this site: www.bandabidu.org.

Reading and writing in Amsterdam !

Under the belly ...

Joelle and I

And also for this year my vacations are finished. Many people I've met on the way … some were already friends, some were new .

I could write for hours trying to tell you who I meet and where I was, but, as you probably know I'm not good in telling stories.

So just wanna say thanks to : Jan, Rebekka, Bugo, Vale, Gio, Anca (even if it didn't work), Joelle and all the people at the NEVA meeting, Linnea, Kenneth and all the Tjärnkvist family, Karsten, Liga, the lovely people in Ultervattnet, the backpackers at the Sunflower Hostel, Adam and of course to Swedish Police

Due I didn't have a camera with me there are no pictures of the vacations, except for this one …

Padova is, with Siena, the city I like most in Italy.

Things you can't miss :

• Caffè Pedrocchi | The building and the coffee with cold mint cream and cacao
• Spritz | A kind of lite Negroni, loved by girls. Aperol, seltz and Spumante.
• Wednesday night in Piazza delle Erbe
• Scrovegni Chapel | Giotto's Masterpiece

And if after have cicled all day and have had a long night-party the day after you wanna relax, have a good bath at the Terme preistoriche hot open-air bath opened till midnight and more.

All these "goodbye" recall me my time in Sweden, so I've decided to put some pictures on-line … check them out

Well … great weekend in Tuscany last one ! Great place, good travelmate and perfect food&wine of course

As someone knows I've lived in Sweden for a while (eleven months) and when I've read this I realized I was there for too long

So, here we go:

You know you’ve been in Sweden too long when

• You think that riding a bicycle in the snow is a perfectly sensible thing to do.
• You regard it as sensible that the ice cream van comes around playing that annoying song when it is -15C.
• The first thing you do upon entering a bank/post office/chemist (anywhere really!) is to look for the queue number machine. You accept that you will have to queue to take a queue number.
• You accept that if someone wants to “follow” you home you don’t need to be afraid. They actually just want to walk you home.
• Hugging is reserved for sexual foreplay
• You've come to expect Sunday morning sidewalk vomit dodging.
• Someone calls you a ”good moron” first thing in the morning and you smile acknowledgement.
• When a stranger asks you a question in the streets, you think it's normal to just keep walking, saying nothing.
• You think that people who wear other colours apart from black, grey, white or blue are exhibitionists.
• You think blodpudding is good
• You think that pay 25 Kr (= 2.5€) for a can of beer at the supermarket is normal.

Well … vacation are always too short.

If you go to Spain do not miss :

• Capo de Gata | The best beach of Spain
• The sugar | A small but cool bar in Barcelona
• Cadaques | Not too much life not too less
• Jamon serrano | Not good as the Parma Ham but …
• Madrid and Barcelona | Of course