A few days ago, we left home-home and started driving north to get south. We passed through Piacenza and Bologna to get to Ascoli Piceno. We made a stop-over was not to travel for 1100km straight. I cannot drive for such a long time; I don’t think it’s safe driving for more than six hours.

Ascoli Piceno looks like a place with great potential, but they have to work a lot to develop it. In the centre, you’ll find a lot of historical palaces and churches, but everywhere you turn, there is a building site. It’s not a stretch to say the city is a huge construction site. If I understood correctly, they were affected by an earthquake, and so they are working to stabilise all the structures. What is not being rebuilt is not kept as you may expect for an important historical location. It’s a pity; I’m sad to report that. I hope in a few years they change, even if, and this is a general feeling I’m having since I got to Italy, keeping the public infrastructure clean and well maintained is not a priority.

This blog will be about travelling and sunny beaches as I’m going on a long vacation to the south of Italy.

I’ll use my mobile to update it and this post is a mix of short announcement and technical test.

After being here for so long, I’m finally writing something in this space.

Since I moved to Ireland almost twelve years ago, it feels like I’ve been running at full speed without a break. I’ve taken some lovely holiday trips, some with good friends, but my mind was always on and the breaks were too short.

Meditation helps me deal with stress, but I thought I needed a real break, a long one, to spend only with my wife.

Yesterday, after almost 6 year I’ve move to Galway I went to the Aran Island. We went to Inis Oìrr.

The trip was fine apart two small issues. One is that at Ros a Mhil Pier it was not clear were we had to go to board. In my opinion they should put in place some signal to guide people to the right queue and avoid useless requests to crew. The other one, a life guard, who was travelling to the island, was not wearing his face mask until my wife looked at him so badly he put it on. It was supposed to be compulsory on board but the crew did not enforce the company policy.

Welcome to my new blog, this is still an experiment to use a static site generator to manage my blog. My first blog was composed by HTML files parsed by a bash script and uploaded on the web site where I had a directory, so it’s like getting back to the old days.