Sunday, August 26, 2007
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Riga
ugly outside, beautiful inside. This definition is justified if you are coming from the port. Riga is chilly, a little 'gray, especially the part facing the river Daugava. As soon as you enter the narrow streets of the medieval layout of the pastel facades us back to the delightful Tallinn. Of course that line is harsh, less sublime in the capital of Estonia. It will be for his troubled history, punctuated with often disastrous invasion, or perhaps for the ethnic groups that have succeeded, by the Swedes to the Germans by the Russians in Latvia itself. The fact is that the style of its buildings is slightly eclectic. The churches, as in Scandinavia, are presented as impressive as the outside of furniture to the poor-house. The winding streets of downtown are just - it's hard to get lost - and leave gradually discover this incredible city. After the center, it comes in a beautiful city park, very well maintained and with a green from envy. In general, streets and sidewalks are clean, fine, almost neat. A holiday in Latvian can not tell from a central Italian town kasbah.
Line is suspended between the fairy and the gloomy. Again we note that the city is "winter", unused to the light, the sun seems to snub in itself, as if to protect themselves from the long, dark, cold Scandinavian winters. Although it was Strapazzata history, maintains a modest but dignified aplomb . A beggar helps us get over the uneven steps of a church with the stroller. Do not ask for anything, or at least not in words. The look miserable, he begged a penny, but stresses that the gesture would have done anyway. Maybe he is a consummate actor, but poverty must be their unconcealed.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
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Stockholm
If, as already mentioned, Helsinki is a very ugly city, Stockholm pulls a different air.
larger, better organized, more alive. And full of young people. From these channels
understand the meaning of life weather Northern Europe. Here in Italy, we always complain, rain, sun, moist heat, wind, snow. In short, whatever the weather. In Sweden, only speaks of the winter, as a sort of inevitable long tunnel to be addressed each year. The fear and respect of this season so hostile and dark is great, especially among young people, who got to know different climates, the best in their travels. From small things you can see the exorcism the winter darkness, such as the ubiquitous halogen lights that dot libraries, bedrooms, kitchens. The Swedish house is lit by many lights, the 'accent lighting is everywhere, not just to shed some light, but for comfort with his presence in every corner of the home. IKEA also offers us the Mediterranean pitted his shelves with all sorts of spotlights, light wood and airy design. Not knowing that the Italian mobile prefers the hard, dark and, above all, energy conservation, as we prefer to install ceiling lights in our homes.
The museum Skansen, a park where homes are rebuilt typical Swedish confirms the impression already mentioned: the living space Swedish is essential, intimate atmosphere of noble woods, poor large furniture, rich furnishings. Sweden appears to be composed of the houses of the crib, at least when viewed from the interior. There is the recollection of the mountain retreat, simplicity as the absolute and concrete. There are girls in traditional costume who welcome visitors of these tiny homes. We enter one of these. For at least half an hour a girl was sitting inside, waiting for the guests. He looks at us, smiles and looks down. The door closed behind us. Not a soul was around. I imagine the same scene in any Italian city: no girl would accept a job like this, if not for a hundred euro per day and a pistol ... Stockholm, a city must be very quiet.
The guide will show you the Swedish welfare state, boasting the convenience for retirement, health care, schools. We have tried and it did not work so great, which is why today we have a welfare state mixed public-private partnerships. I realize this only after consulting the long list of incentives, conventions, gratuity to which the Swedish citizen is entitled. I wonder if the Italian has slumped due to climatic reasons, or maybe religious, ethical, historical, geographic, or whatever. Why can not happen in Rome a part of what happens in Stockholm? Perhaps the long winter causes Swedes deal of public affairs, since so much else to do there? They are efficient, we have fun? They seem trivial
the same conclusions that many come after a trip to Scandinavia. Yet the contrast is striking, not the joy Mediterranean Swedish seems to prevail over common sense.
The sky free of clouds, the wind remains tight and wet, the channels taking a blinding light but almost horizontal.
One day is too little to understand Stockholm. This is a solemn promise to return, even in winter. To understand, compare, get angry.
Friday, August 24, 2007
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Helsinki
ugliest city of Milan is demanding task. Here it is: Helsinki!
is indeed a sad place without well-defined architecture. Easy to "use", the Finnish capital does not shine all that much between the European capitals, even among the less noble. You move well, the signs are clear, the traffic well regulated. Its inhabitants seem like good people, but nothing more. Obviously, everyone here speaks English more than acceptable. That, combined with the traffic order is not enough to make it better overall the "moral capital" Italian.
Within hours, we can not decipher much of the Finns. The government building is Stalinist-style: big, dark, shapeless. And that's really strange, built almost in the suburbs. On the way back, a bus driver attaches to the horn because the car is not moving ahead. Maybe because it passed a red light, he finds himself stuck in an intersection, despite the lack of traffic. Forty seconds of ruin trumpeted the idea a little 'Scandinavian' in Helsinki.
want of anything better, we decide to visit the "Church in the Rock", so called because it is sculpted inside a rocky hill. Inside looks like a normal suburban parish of any Italian city, flat and ultra-modern. A pianist performs songs that seem kind of liturgy. It seems made just for us cruisers, a bit 'like the band playing in the port of St. Petersburg.
We share the center of the city. Let's do some 'shopping in a supermarket in place in a basement. All simple, credit card accepted, contracts are available to help these poor foreigners from southern Europe.
Wandering a bit 'for the center, as there is no left much to be done, we enter the main railway station. Although in the summer, welcomes us with a whiff of warm wet impressive. The Finns love the Mediterranean summer climate and try to reproduce in their environments throughout the year, including summer. The lobby is quite bare, it seems that an underground Central Finland. There is an intense and quiet comings and goings of people. No puffing, no elbow or shoulder, greatest kindness before a possible impact with the next.
Leaving open, a crow perched on a traffic light, yelling something to the passers-by. It sounds like a person, those lunatics who occasionally meet our streets. Here is granted only to animal disturbance of public peace.
they come together here and there some Russians who have to find cheaper and better supplied stores in Finland. Behave slightly over the top than the average Finnish, but all in all, are almost unrecognizable.
The premises frequented by young people setting a bit 'gloomy, night, I guess. Perhaps the fact that the summer season comes down to "good month", maybe for the winter darkness. The boys show no sign of barely a smile when talking to each other, but never in svaccarsi uproarious laughter or large gestures. They seem comfortable with themselves, they content themselves with the little they have sio. They know that out there in Europe there is a colorful and cheerful world. The idea of \u200b\u200b"home" must be better because it is there, warm, well lit, reassuring. It is suspected that the Finns are of mammon ... Publish
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
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St. Petersburg
This is the city more waiting, as if it were to go to Rome to Russia.
We begin the rounds on the morning of a summer at least ungenerous. Fog and some cool off-season does not make very enjoyable day.
Beyond the specific descriptions of the guide, I try to capture the spirit of the Great Mother Russia whose inhabitants are so proud. The buildings, although beautiful outside, no damage, as a whole, an impression as a fairy in Prague. Nor can I understand the constant atmosphere of Strauss waltzes in Vienna. The juxtaposition of marvelous wonders that is here in Rome is more dilute and homogeneous. Maybe Florence or Paris may look like vague. Russia is the end of Europe, the extreme eastern boundary, the spur which separates us from Asia. St. Petersburg is Finnish, Scandinavian, French, Italian and Russian. The suffix -burg also makes it a bit 'Germanic, Dutch for the accuracy, since its previous names (Petrograd and Leningrad) were provisional and the suffixes a bit' too Russian ".
Like all the capitals that are respected, a great river, really huge, the cross repeatedly. The giant Neva is crossed even by hydrofoil. It was the crossroads of great trade and the protagonist of the most significant events in modern history: what city has sacrificed eight hundred thousand of its inhabitants during the German siege of the last war?
Here young people are the protagonists of the city. Many are, you can see them walking everywhere. It is from here that started the October Revolution?
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If some pride in Russia consisted in Vole surprise the visitor at all costs, the Hermitage is the essence of spectacular beauty and boundless Russia. Despite a visit to Bersagliera, always in a hurry, I mean, half a day in this museum is a drop in a sea of \u200b\u200bbeautiful things to see. Maybe not even a museum, but it is something divine in quantity and quality of the wonders on display. The visit concludes Faberge jewelry especially the apotheosis of beauty, boundless magnificence. Never seen so many and so beautiful precious stones, whose light bathes the eye to overflowing in an ecstasy of the senses worthy of more powerful drugs.
is hard to imagine the army of workers, engineers, architects, artists of all disciplines to work to build this immensity, the comings and goings of the masterpieces purchased worldwide, the accommodation in the rooms. Perhaps no person can know everything about the Hermitage, even studying there for life. It is for this reason that Russian girls and superbly graceful gait? They know their history, the magnificence of the Great Mother of the host. Its beauty reflects the reality that surrounds them. Or vice versa. It matters little, because this will be supplanted by Russia and enriched cafona who thinks the more money they saved to the wonders on the shore of the Neva.
The change is already in place and train some of the rich and ostentatious partying in front of the tourist bus from the windows sealed in not dark enough to filter the neo-capitalist Russian disconcerting.
I wonder what does the Great Mother ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
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Tallinn
Before giving any opinion, I must mention the site Celebrities Travels (http://xoomer.alice.it/gtravels/tallinn.html) about the Estonian girls:
" 1) [The Estonian] I chip space, all skinny and tall. Take and ten at random and at least half are to be assessed between eight and ten, if you're just picky. Sometimes in clubs happen to see a lot, but so perfect and so, not knowing where to start. So far, so good.
2) The flip side is the Estonian girls are the most obtuse is tricky in Europe. In fact, all Estonian men and women did not enjoy fame awake and in the former CCCP now in Scandinavia and the Baltic are the jokes about Estonians, as we are on the police. "
These are the premises. Estonia is arguably the country's young, beautiful and large on the streets of Tallinn. If men leave a little to be desired as to attractiveness, at least according to Canon UK, the girls are really cute. They are everywhere, in form or scollatissime to address - rather than draw - the tourist undecided about what to do. We have to look like rich people, given the prices charged outdoor cafes.
Some maidens in costume have the function of living signs. With a nice smile and look a bit 'far, inform and direct the flow of tourists. One of these girls served as a stake-holder. His job was to hold a high billboard. Every now and then moved into adjacent streets. But remained firm with his panel. The Eastern version of the man-sandwich. Perhaps he was a lap dancer night ...
After the steep climb to old town, welcomes us an unusual sign: "WiFi." The Silicon Valley of Europe will accept us. Further on, a young man with a laptop, headset is holding a video conference astride on a wall of a public garden. Imagine that computer would end if we were in Italy.
What these Estonian head. I imagine that one day gathered at the meeting and will be out this agenda: "We have nothing. We are few. We are poor. The Russians take us around. What do we do? The meeting that was to be a genius has found a solution: "We use what we have, the head. Facciamoglielo see, the Russians and the whole world!
Thanks to its excellent universities and governments who believed in the talents of their young voters, the Estonians have built a rich and innovative economy based on services rather than products, cultivating the proverbial three "i". Informatics at the highest level, fluent English and entrepreneurship. I can not say if the car in Estonia to cost little, considering the large number of big-sedan with license plate " east " parked along the streets of Talllin, Estonians do not fare badly. Or have a lot of installments to be paid.
Tallinn's architecture is simple and, well, smart. Instead of playing on the extreme complication or the imposing design, planners have provided that the houses have painted facades of the bright pastel colors. The city is nicely decorated, although nothing particularly stands out among the major architectural elements of the capital.
The new area opens with an elegant shopping center that contains even a hotel inside. The shops are frequented by young people who, perhaps, they feel closer to their European peers in shopping or just to window shop. A peasant with the sports car and the stereo at full volume can not fail as urban design element in a city that knows how to be self-Tallinn.
within a store Estonian souvenir stand where several nested Russian matryoshka. Asked why in Estonia they typically sell items in Russia, the job he replies in a delicious "We had Russian influence." I have not had the courage to challenge the lack of synonymy between the terms "influence" and "domination."
Estonian is a Finno-Ugric language. It is not Slavic, nor is written with Cyrillic characters. Already this diversity grammar is easy to imagine how the Russians had a liking to their subject. Estonia itself is different from other Baltic republics and Europe itself Eastern Europe. Sometimes it seems that the models should take more "Western", it often takes only the most deterioration.
This great little country if you'll manage, thanks to computer science, English and, especially, to an ancient and genuine sense, the real wealth of Estonians, pace of reviews Celebrities Travels.
Friday, August 17, 2007
Long Tong Silver Nudo
Dover Castle
welcomes us Ample parking, well maintained and mostly free. Quickly found a place, perhaps because early risers this morning - at half past nine! - Very few.
The structures of the manor not keep a lot inside. The building is bare, furniture and furnishings were reconstructed. There are also bizarre visual and sound installations, sometimes truly bizarre. If one treads on a carpet, a voice yells, "Put your feet away from the carpet! Certain sounds evoke the clink of utensils on display on improbable plank vintage.
On the vast lawn in front of the castle is being partecipatissima a representation of an attack by pirates, with actors in masks and a gun almost blank. In the sense that shoots really does a bang, but the bullets are made of highly compressed weeds. Given the range, better steer clear of her mouth.
Continuing the visit, the tunnel by evoking the ancient medieval atmosphere, dark and wet, these tight places. The tour then slips quickly re-emerge in the sun and the wind rushing this beautiful morning.
visit more impressive is that the underground citadel dating back to World War II, a short distance. It's really striking is the detailed reconstruction of the different environments: teletype, electric generators, encoders, sounds and lights that show the difficult conflict. The size and, paradoxically, the sense of claustrophobia, but also sounds a bit 'left of the machine will impress the most jaded visitor. The exit to the library soon make you forget everything else. Too bad the underground hospital was already booked, as it was the most important area. The several miles yet to travel have made us give up by waiting for the next round.
Tired and satisfied, waiting for us to embark on Constellation and return the car.
After requesting an indication of a police patrol, the official team Francesca. As I explained in the street, throw a second and more grim look in his direction. The British prefer the word before, hopefully you understand them on the fly through their rich nonverbal language. "Please fasten your seat belt, ma'am!" No way, language is too cryptic. "Ah France, belting 'belt!
Now the agent is smiling, but not too much. Thank goodness that did not make us fine.
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Canterbury
Taking the highway A2 just outside the hotel, located in Whitefield, a suburb of Dover, Canterbury welcomes us after only twenty minutes away. A parking fee that we accept a few pounds.
The old town is beautiful, vital young man. The milestones Marks and Spencer, Boots Tesco and allows us to do some shopping without having to change a €. A pre-packaged products, likely for us Italians, alternate odd semi-edible items, including sweet biscuits, chocolate and orange juice concentrate: do not try to drink it without having it diluted in water!
Cathedral where Thomas Beckett - that of the Canterbury Tales studied in school - was assassinated should be a sort of St. Peter's English. Anglicanism was born here. It is wretched. Its crypt, dark and mysterious scenes reminiscent of medieval even the most skeptical among those who have visited such places.
The Old Town is alien to the town than the cathedral. Have been fires that have destroyed much of what was to be the "Old England", a country really unfortunate because of the fire. Just read the history of London.
the disinterested kindness of its people makes you want to arrange a tour of the island. It will be for next time.
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From London to Dover
Handling the practices of acceptance, the number of bags loaded (taking advantage of the maximum permitted capacity), we are approaching the gate airline EasyJet . After a sudden rush back to retrieve forgotten his belt instead of a security check, we start in the middle of the track. Passengers may board in this manner, without shuttles, as the plane was parked a few steps from it. Spartan but efficient.
The Airbus 319 is brand new, clean and well maintained. If it were not for junk food on board that you pay a lot ', the company deserves praise. After an hour of quiet flight, the descent to the airport to London Gatwick, where we rented a car waiting.
It is not easy to drive on the left of the steering wheel to the "wrong", but it is fun as well as stimulating.
The directions are clear. The English press on the accelerator, but behave in a generally polite on the road. No horn, no one who improvised a Formula 1 driver, a few "big cars" around, almost nobody. The so-called SUV, "sports utility car" here are not taken. The Dutch-registered car is distinguished by a guide "Italian", but Kent is not the Wild West of our house. Frank insists on not wearing a seat belt rear will soon receive an exemplary lesson in English language and communication.
The highway is busy, moving, a bit 'boring. Or maybe it civil. Synonyms for us Italians. No motorways, no advertising, few precise information.
arrive at the hotel, the documents do not need, just credit card. That amount will be provisionally charged over the room. Gentili, civilians as well, but you certainly can not say that the English are fools.
The Ramada Dover appears to a motel to judge from the building to one floor and the groans of our neighbor's room. The staff is nice, but nothing more. Italy, I think, could accommodate three times as many tourists would take advantage if its "verve" and, especially, if it improves its services. The bed is comfortable, there's a fan for hot days. We are in August, but here there are at most 19 degrees. Throw a wind very tense.
At 16 there is time to make a trip to Canterbury.