How to make “Spaghetti alla Carbonara” for 35 people

No, I didn’t go completely crazy and no, I am not turning “The Cat” into a food blog in order to get more clicks. This post will just be some kind of playful intermission between all the travel stories, courses, movies and games reports. It’s the recount of how, together with my family, we made […]

SAY – Spinning a Yarn

What happens when you try to combine two topics apparently very different from each other? Who knows? We didn’t. And that’s why we decided to realise SAY – Spinning a Yarn: a training course on how to apply effectively storytelling methods to global education issues. If you needed to search what “Spinning a Yarn” means, don’t worry: you […]

Share the Right Story

If I had to choose an alternate title for this post, it would be: Back to The Future. I even have the soundtrack of the classic 80s movie going on in my mind right now! And then I understood why. Because in “Share the Right Story” – training course co-funded by the European programme Erasmus+ – […]

“The Jungle Book” – a comparison between the versions (1967-2016)

Raise your hand if you don’t know “The Jungle Book” (and then, run and do something about it, seriously). It is an iconic story, probably one of the most well known by young people and adults across several different generations. Since the publication of the book by Rudyard Kipling (which was rather a collection of books) […]

Dead Sea – Jerusalem – Ramallah

Here is a short photo-reportage of a trip I made in May 2016. I had the opportunity to attend SALTO’s Tool Fair (an Italian-Israeli conference on non formal education), which was a great experience, and I joined it with two days of sightseeing on my own. It has been an intense journey, rich of encounters, reflection and stories. […]

Special Effects – Slovakia

It’s been the 4th time. Our course “Special Effects“, training for trainers (co-funded through the European programme Erasmus+) with a special focus on nature-based education and spirituality, has just finished its fourth edition in Prenčov, Slovakia. How did it go? How was it “special”, this time? Let’s find out! First of all, a bit of history. If you […]

Hanz Zimmer live tour 2016 – Prague

Do you love movies like The Dark Knight? The Gladiator? Pirates of the Caribbean? Inception? Interstellar? If you do, chances are that you remember their fantastic soundtracks. They all have one thing in common: they are made by the same guy. And he is touring Europe right now. Saturday 7th of May 2016 I had the privilege of going […]

Safari to Serengeti and Ngorongoro, Tanzania

In the summer 2014, before joining a great volunteering programme (Insight by the Irish NGO Development Perspectives, which I described here), me and Bara spent two fantastic weeks exploring the north of Tanzania. The country is so beautiful and rich that the hardest part is to choose what to see! The Kilimanjaro, the fantastic natural […]

“Batman vs Superman” – flawed and daring, is a journey into the shadows of the Superhero archetype

“How best to describe it?” says Alfred when he sees… *something towards the end*. The same words could apply to the whole movie. It could have been many, many different things. It tries to be some of them. So in the end, does it deliver? In my opinion, yes – almost completely! Directed by Zack Snyder, who […]

X-Com, the franchise

This is the story of the videogame franchise that taught me me everything I know about aliens, and space. Ok, not really. But close enough. UFO: Enemy Unknown (known in America as X-COM: UFO Defense to attract fans of 1993’s tv series “The X-Files“) was released in 1994 by MicroProse for DOS and Amiga (ahhh, sweet […]