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Recently: been socializing at the Kita Sommerfest and going out for dinner with L. downtown Herrenberg!

Celebrating the first year Anniversary of our life in Herrenberg.
It’s been an intense year full of things, and I am happy of the choice we made to move here.
It was the right time to leave Berlin and to start the new life Baden-Württemberg’s chapter. This was the first Region of Germany that I met, the first impression I had of this Country, and I had always hoped to live here sooner or later. And here I am now, here we are now. And I believe we are enjoying it (with Spring and now Summer ahead! the best time of the year!)

13 to 23 June 2022. Istria, Croatia. Rovigno exactly.

We hadn’t had a vacation for a long time, due to covid and our relocation to Herrenberg last summer. So we were really looking forward to spend days off with the entire family, which we did with thus holiday in Croatia. Finally the see and Mediterranean for the kids.

Stayed @ the Polari camping in Rovigno, a huge place on the coast. We had a Mobile home, and following kids desires we spent almost every day by the swimming pools and went to the beach just a couple of times. Weather was very good, very warm…hot actually. We visited the old city of Rovigno and found a good real neapolitan pizzeria there, “Zita”.

We reached Croatia by car, one of the advantages of living south Germany! On the way to Rovigno we stopped for one night in Hallein in Austria, while on the way back the overnight stop was in Sankt Michel in Lungau (Landhaus Lungau). Both beautiful places.

We have all enjoyed these couple of weeks of vacations.

We came back home this weekend, and spent a nice Saturday evening bbq with friends in Mönchberg… and in time to join the Zwiebelkuchenfest in Kuppingen!

Niko visited us in Herrenberg during a longer Bank Holiday weekend. We spent time together in the town, on the mountain tower, at home, and dining out the 2 of us like the old times in Berlin.

Lisi and her new born baby girl followed up after Niko and stayed at our place for a couple of days. So it was a good time with my family and part of the Kremer’s one.

After more than 5 years, today I returned to sit in a Company office at my location (which is Böblingen since we moved to Herrenberg). They closed the office in Berlin back in 2017, then Corona pandemic kept the offices closed in Germany. And so today I have lived this good feeling again.

Missione Magliana happened 20 years ago, in 2002, and initiated the story of myself-and-my-place-in-Rome which has known many phases, participants and protagonists over the years.
With Missione Magliana II this chapter of my life comes to a end in 2022.
My thoughts and gratitude go forever to those times, to the place I lived, owned, managed during these 20 years; and to the people who have crossed my life in and around the apartment in Rome, who have helped me in settling there and making that place and my life of those years warm, important, intensive, and more.
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While in Rome those 4 days I had the chance to meet some of the places, food, and people that I miss. I stayed at Corrado & Silvia’s place, and spent very good time with them, evenings at home or walking through Piazza Navona, Piazza Farnese and Campo de Fiori… eating Pizza Bianca with Mortadella. I saw Gianfranco and Marco one evening in Trastevere, sitting in front of a wonderful Amatriciana. And I met my roman relatives, Melina, Luca, Maria, Antonella & co..

Almost 2 weeks of quarantine/isolation for my family after a couple of positive Covid tests for Guni and Wanda. Most important thing is that they experienced almost no symptoms.
Peter and his family where here for a visit when it happened, and they isolated from us in another part of the house.
Strange situation, but we managed it.
I wonder about the reliability and the sense of these tests at the current stage of the pandemic.

Pages recently added to the Back in Time section of this website.

There is a lot happening, inside my life and outside. Weeks move fast. Work is a roller coaster. Family is filling and warming the days. And I did not find time and things to say lately. But signing the Covid test certificate of the kids for their kindergarten, I realised it is the 4th of March today. 4 Marzo.

Happy Birthday Lucio Dalla. My first unforgettable idol.

You can’t beat Spidey

Early 90’s. Listening Behaviour.

A most inspirational and rewarding music experiences.

Lately I am listening to History lessons of Prof. Alessandro Barbero on YouTube. I like history and I find these lessons interesting and very enjoyably presented. World Wars, Medieval life, Crusades, Ottoman Empire, Falkland, Carlo Magno, The Italian independence wars, The American civil war etc.

Abbiamo vissuto il 2021 a Berlino ed Herrenberg. Estattamente i primi 6 mesi nella Capitale, da Gennaio a fine Giugno; poi a partire da Luglio ad Herrenberg.
I primi sei mesi sembrano gia’ cosi’ lontani, a volte mi fermo a ripensare alle strade di Mitte e Prenzlauerberg ed alle persone ed i posti vissuti. E quando lo faccio, ovviamente, sento una sensazione mista tra gioia e amore … e mi spunta un sorriso.
Berlino mi ha accolto in una fase particolare della mia vita e mi ha regalato tanto, emozioni, visione, nuove energie ed esperienze colorate, calde e belle che, dopo dieci anni, fanno parte di me e dei miei ricordi. Penso ai caffe’, ai ristoranti e le pizzerie, alle sere fuori con Nico, ai Karaoke, a Masataka, alle chiacchierate con Matthias al Rosengarten, alla scuola di Tedesco di Kastanienalle, a Chaitan, ai marciapiedi larghissimi, alla musica di Max Raabe, alle colazioni fuori con Guni nel weekend, ai palazzi di Metzer Strasse ed al Café Hilde, alla Wasswerturm ed a Kollwitzkiez, alla U-Bahn, ai primi anni di Diego e Wanda, a Zionskirchplatz ed alla mia vita di quartiere, alle mie lunghissime passeggiate, alle nostre belle case dove abbiamo abitato, ed a tanto altro.
Da luglio siamo passati ad un nuovo scenario, ad Herrenberg e dintorni, che ho cominciato e che continiuero’ a raccontare qui.

We are living a cozy Christmas period in Herrenberg with our family; Peter, Anne and their children are here, and Marie Luise and Christoph too. Our kids are happy and overwhelmed with joy and surprises (they saw Santa leaving our house after dropping the presents!). Guni cooked a delicious parmigiana di melanzane.

I enjoy singing and playing Paolo Conte’ songs lately.

It’s a beautiful time.

It’s a very cold winter it seems to me, and I not going out much these days. Plus teleworking, plus covid restrictions equals a time not extremely exiting and social lately. But in the meantime they took away from my mouth a tooth with an oral surgery procedure, so I not getting bored anyway.

Third Covid vaccine dose today, the so called “booster”.

I am reading a Jack Reacher’s book by Lee Child and I like the feeling of liking it and enjoying looking forward to reading more of the story. Once or twice a year it happens to me, a lousy reader, to come across a book i feel good about. Like the recent ones on chemistry and quantum mechanics by Tim James.

And I got the feeling I need to return soon, again, to dream in the Foundation’s Universe.

Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy is my favorite novel. My dream. Feeling like returning back home.

Also Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001 Space Odissey and Randevouz with Rama are immensely great. But Foundation is touching base with myself.

4 days at the feet of the Vesuvius, where I did grow up … like many other things. 4 days with an heroic Diego, who gives us love, joy and vision of the sense of life.