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Labour Day

(Italy as a protected area day 53)

Italy as Protected Area day 53…I know, I haven’t written for a while but life under quarantine just goes on as always, thinking about health and economical issues…and today it is Labour Day. Normally here in this part of Italy, you would have gone to the beach for a picnic with friends. The countryside, sun […]

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Tribute to Italy! Grazie Steve McCurry!

Italy as protected area day 36. Photography is one of my greatest passions and the National Geographic cover with the Afghan Girl made by Steve MacCurry is one of my favourite pictures ever. McCurry loves Italy, he has worked for many Italian magazines so he collected many pictures to tribute it, creating this video “Tribute […]

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Music for the Hope!

Italy as protected are 35 days (five weeks) . A serene Easter Monday.. Today just a few lines to show you an intimate but emotional moment we lived yesterday thanks to Andrea Bocelli singing from the Duomo church in Milan. Andrea accepted the invitation of the Duomo and the city of Milan, to sing from […]

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With my own two hands..or better Happy Easter!

Italy as protected area day 34 or better Easter Day! At New Years Eve, who would have thought what we are living right now? Who knows. Maybe somebody. But let’s move up to the present time: in this part of Italy it is a pretty warm springtime day. Normally we would have spent our lunch […]

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React

(Italy as a protected area day 28)

Italy as protected area day 28! A month! Ok when our prime minister Giuseppe Conte told us about the national lockdown we truly hoped that it would have finished on 3rd April but here we are…let’s hold on! One of the questions that arise during this period is: what can we do in order to […]

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Come together

(italy as protected area day 25)

Italy as protected area day 25…Officially the lockdown will go on until 13th April, just after Easter. But this morning as the news were running , it was said it could go on until 1st May. Patience is a great gift and we must think that we have to respect these rules in order to […]

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A letter from the future

Italy as protected area day 19. Almost three weeks! When we first heard this news from China, we just underestimated it. Too far away, another continent, it is a big country, it is not to happen here… But then you find yourself in the middle of it. Hearing news from all over the world you […]

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Desperately Seeking Yeast

Itaky as protected area day 17; waiting fr the press conference of the Civil Protection. As days go by we feel more and more this “suspented time” sensation, it seems to last forever and in the meantime you just want this situation to end, just to end! Experts say we are actually living a kind […]

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Strawberries & Breathe forever <3

(italy as protected area day 15)

Italy as protected area day 15. The 6 pm press conference of our Civil Protection the numbers of contaminated people are slightly go down, the number of death people increasing…everyday at 6 pm we stop to hear these information…you just hold on your breath listening to these numbers. And yesterday the so called patient number […]

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Mindfulness & Wonder…

Italy as protected are day 14, two weeks! Who could have ever imagined what is happening right now? As western countries we do live many things but not such this violent virus spread. In the past 50 years the other spreads haven’t reached all this portion of population and countries. But yesterday at the 6 […]

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