Archive for slow life

Fermomag goes on vacation…

Jun 19, 2013 No Comments by

We arrived at number 41, hoping to have proposed a variety of interesting topics. This year we go on vacation early, to get back to you on 19th September. A long pause that will allow us to reflect and seek new partnerships. We wish you happy holydays, and we will not fail to keep in [...]

slow life Read More

Mauro Martini Raccasi, the many facets of writing

Jun 05, 2013 No Comments by

Born in Parma, Mauro Martini Raccasi was the first in Italy to graduate in economics with a thesis about journalism at IFOR institute of Bocconi University in Milan. He made his debut in fiction with a historical saga, the tetralogy “Il Romanzo dei Celti” (The novel of the Celts), moving on to other genres, such [...]

slow life Read More

Visiting castles in Burgenland

May 22, 2013 Comments Off by

Three hundred days of sunshine a year: it is a privilege of Burgenland, in the far east of Austria. Plain at times moved by rolling hills, thriving vineyards, brings traces of Hungary, of which he was a member until 1921. A low population density and high quality of life, by the few and small towns, [...]

slow life Read More

Walking through fairy tales

Apr 24, 2013 No Comments

Grimm brothers have two hundred years, even if their first collection, “Children’s and Household Tales”, is from 1821. The stories by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm include titles and characters that every child knows: Cinderella, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb, Hansel and Gretel…many of them accompany the famous Märchenstrasse (Fairytale Road), a famous [...]

Read More

House concert, when live music is friendly

Apr 10, 2013 1 Comment

Since a few years is spreading even in Italy the phenomenon of the House Concert, “house” evenings with musicians who perform in an acoustic version, in front of a few guests invited by the host. Recently arrived in Europe, they are real live concerts organized in private homes, usually without amplification (even not to disturb [...]

Read More

Short story: The landslide and the fowl

Apr 10, 2013 No Comments

It’s like a curse.  Every time the holidays roll around for Christmas or summer, every time that I am feeling particularly worn out and looking forward to doing absolutely nothing for a few days, something happens that requires me, as a moral imperative, to skip my long-desired rest.  And it usually happens during the most [...]

Read More

“Sun and Snow” at Mondadori, evening with friends

Mar 13, 2013 No Comments

The first event in the presentation exhibition “Metti il Venerdì da Mondadori”, dedicated to Luigi Alfieri and his “Sun and Snow”, proved to be a pleasant meeting with friends in a relaxed and intimate atmosphere. After a short introduction by the author and the illustrator, the painter Enrico Robusti, the book spoke through the reading [...]

Read More

Cuisine of past times

Mar 13, 2013 No Comments

Christmas began with Santa Lucia and the first snowfall. There were many things to be done: gathering moss along the road to school for the crib, finding a Christmas tree in the pine wood, getting bunches of mistletoe in the oak woods, preparing the mixture for the spongata cakes and writing Christmas cards for relatives. [...]

Read More

Short story: The adventures of a country boy

Feb 27, 2013 No Comments

My Uncle Renzo called me to one side and said: “I’m going to Parma tomorrow: ask your father if he will let you come with me”. We caught the bus at seven in the morning. The one the students and the workmen took. We got off at the bus station at eight and went to [...]

Read More

Cat lady memories

Feb 13, 2013 No Comments

Night. Silence. I’m sleeping. Something… something rasp at the door! Fear… oh, it’s the cat, dear, at three in the morning. Doubt: is really it? I mewl the name of the suspect. The suspect answers. What if it is a skilled thief pretending to be a cat? Slowly I open the door peering in the [...]

Read More