Sorry for the delay, as they say.
The period just left behind was really intense work and other things and time to update the blog has been unfortunately sacrificed. I try to fix it.
Let's start now ... in the sense that this evening at 21.40 will take the flight from Bergamo to Dublin. Ten days Ireland . The first stop in Dublin, where I will kindly hosted by his friend True Brescia. Three days away to the south leg Cork (Ireland's second city) where I stay on the couch with Irish Donna (through couchsurfing unearthed). Later I'll move to Dingle, a picturesque little town in the peninsula in the ring of Kerry (southwest). Here I will be hosted by Brianin, a rather odd kind Irish (nn so if you have more you must find it on my news page of couchsurfing, could me made into small pieces). Finally last stage Galway, campus and youth of the west, where the Spaniard Guillermo sofa surfer.
I go alone. For the first time on a journey with no companion in adventure and do not hide a hint of fear, but overrides the desire to discover and see how it will be expected to breathtaking places. My backpack is ready: there are a sweater, sweatshirts, raincoats and umbrellas. I expect a lot of rain, I think.
So tonight we start .... when I come back (the 27) will tell you what happened.
During this time I decided to drastically reduce my consumption of meat . I'm not vegetarian, but let's say thanks to Laura and thanks to an article giornalisiìtico I thought about how the excessive consumption of meat affects the environment, world hunger, as well as animals. But I'll be honest more than a factor of ethics ("do not eat animals"), affects me the environmental factor and the fact that exceed the consumption of meat is important to deprive other human food such as cereals. I mean to have too much we do not give anything to someone else, the rule which is based on capitalism, but that's another story.
So for now I decided not to buy more meat and try to eat as little as possible around, even though I have for now decided to exclude it from my diet. Let's say we do 'a nice cut.
bringing back a past article written by Umberto Veronesi Republic on June 25, 2008:
"The reasons for being vegetarian? The first is of an environmental / social. The agricultural products in the world would actually enough to feed six billion people, if they were equally divided, and especially if they were largely used to feed three billion farm animals. Every year 150 million tons of grain to cattle, chickens and sheep, with a loss by more than '80% of potential nutrient in practice 50% of cereals and 75% of soybean crops in the world are used to feed the animals 'breeding. The 'South America, to make room for farms, destroyed each year a part of the Amazon rainforest the size of the' Austria. Thirty-six of the forty poorest countries in the world grain exports in the U.S., where 90% of the imported product is fed to animals destined for slaughter. We live in a world where a billion people lack access to 'clean water to produce one kilogram of beef requires more than thirty thousand liters of water. Already today we can not not even count how many diseases and how many deaths could be avoided while consuming less meat. Which leads indirectly to the second argument of vegetarianism, which is the protection of health. There is no doubt that a 'poor nutrition rich in vegetables and meat is better suited to keep in good shape. The plant foods have a protective function against the 'action of free radicals, those molecules that can alter the structure of cells and their genes. It can therefore think that those who follow a 'diet rich in plant foods is less likely to become ill and can live longer. C 'is a second factor. We are surrounded by pollutants, which may jeopardize our lives. They are harmful if we breathe them, but far more if we ingest. Consuming meat, we put ourselves in this very situation, because by 'atmosphere these chemicals fall to the ground, and then on' grass, eaten by cattle, (or through feed) introduces the harmful substances in its fatty deposits, and finally in our plate when we eat meat. L 'accumulation of toxic substances predisposes us to many diseases as "welfare" (non-insulin-dependent diabetes, atherosclerosis, obesity). The cancer risk is related to the amount of meat we consume. The toxic substances accumulate in the adipose tissue more easily, where they remain for a long time exposing as long as their toxic effects. Fruits and vegetables are food poor in fat and high in fiber: these, facilitating the transit of ingested food, reduce the time of contact with the intestinal wall of any carcinogens in food. The plants then, in addition to contaminate much less than other foods, are treasure chests of valuable substances such as vitamins, antioxidants and inhibitors of carcinogenesis (such as flavonoids and isoflavones), which allow them to neutralize carcinogens, to "dilute" the formation and to reduce the proliferation of diseased cells. The third reason, but not least, is an ethical, philosophical d is the one that made me think a vegetarian ever since. I was a child country, an animal lover and now I'm a man that has the greatest respect for life in all its forms, especially when this can not assert his own reasons. "
wonderful concert last Friday Sigur Ros to Florence. The outward journey, while being cheered by the company of Laura, and Ilene Luscia proved to be infinite due to an accident on the highway: Result still almost 2 hours (with long curly for artistic photos on the highway) and 6 hours in total Travel.
The exhibition was held at the Boboli Gardens in an arena of natural trees, an incredible place for an incredible group. On the stage, decorated with soft lighting that gave the feeling of being in a postyo delicate and soft, the Icelandic group expanded to 12 elements for the occasion (of the violins and woodwinds Amiina) has really outdone himself with amazing performances of "Svefn - G-Englar" and "Hafsòl. Five stars.
Song of the day: "Cemeteries of London" - Coldplay . Needless to present them to you. After really appreciated their first two albums and have remained a bit 'disappointed' X & Y ", I find myself loving their new album" Viva la vida ". There are at least six or seven good songs out of ten. This is one of my favorites.
