Ecco un pot pourri video del primo giorno di viaggio, da Roma Ciampino a London Gatwick, e poi on the loose in central London.

Londra e’ l’inizio perfetto per ogni mio viaggio, il solo pensiero di quanti viaggiatori eccellenti partirono da questa magnifica citta’, mi riempie di voglia di esplorare e documentare.

Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you, dice la canzone, ed e’ esattamente quello che ho fatto…prima del mio arrivo monsoni, con me il sole splendente. Da paura.

Con Andrea e Silvia, che si sposano il 1 settembre, quando io atterro in OZ, sigh, abbiamo giricchiato per il centro, preso d’assalto da turisti col portafoglio tra i denti.

Prossima puntata, snowboard in Bromley, The Snow Must Go On, inizia nel migliore dei modi!

Tra poco parto per Kruger Park, sono a casa di Christie a Pretoria, Sud Africa, per cui ci rivediamo lunedi’.

Baci e abbracci a tutti, e auguri a MAMMA che il 26 luglio compie gli anni.

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This is the first day of traveling, from Rome to London. Once arrived in the city where many a traveler started his or her quest, me and my two friends and hosts, Andrea and Silvia (to marry september the 1st when I’ll be in OZ, sigh) went out for a roam in the bustling centre, swarming with tourist on the prowl. Bery dangerous as they say in Japan.

Today I’m Pretoria South Africa, at Christie’s home, and we’re heading to Kruger Park. See you on monday, and happy birthday to my mum ELISA!

So the great adventure has finally started. Here I am in London with my hosts and friend Andrea and Silvia in a Soho Pub, while refreshing ourselves after a hectic roam around oxford st. More to come, stay tuned. Gotta go purchase the insurance now. Ciao!

L’avventura inizia! Eccomi a Londra, in compagnia di Andrea e Silvia in un pub di Soho, in piena dissetazia post frenesia intorno a Oxford st. Seguiranno altre foto e filmati, buttate il mouse :-). Adesso scappo che debbo comprare l’assicurazione multirischi. Ciao!

Synopsis
The Beach on ice: deep powder, dead poets and moral free-fall in the death-sport capital of the world. Long-dead Lord Byron started it. He was the rock star of his age, but also a poet with about as much relevance to the blood grudge struggle that marks modern life for most of humanity as he has to the practice of sliding down snowy slopes on planks of wood. And yet, it was thanks to Byron that Itchy ended up living in Chamonix Mont Blanc, the death-sport capital of the world, among the high mountains and low morals. In the intervening years, he has tried hard with alcohol and adrenaline to numb a past he can’t atone for. Now a serial rapist is stalking Cham’s tourist-thronged streets, haunting the same shadows as Itchy and triggering an obsession which will lead him far from Europe’s zenith, to the depths of the valley and himself. This is a striking evocation of a world where the reckless violence of a callow man’s life comes back to haunt him. This work is presented by the author of the John Llewellyn Rhys prize-winner “Boy A”. It is exhilarating and action-packed, with all the psychological acuity of “Boy A”. It provides widespread review coverage in men’s magazines and national press. ‘The first time Itchy came here even the road up was like a call to arms. It’s raised on great soaring stone pillars, which look like they were looted from the Titans, but it feels as if it was made before even those pregods. As if it surged from the centre of the earth with the same unfathomable energy that forced up the crag-ragged ridges on either side. Chamonix is indeed a mythical place, a mystical place: where civilisation confronted the wilderness and for once they agreed to differ; undefeated; the undisputed free-ride capital; the death-sport centre of the world. All of the first mountains ever assailed were climbed from here. The history of Alpinism itself is a history of Cham. Chamonix is where it all began.’