The great achievement of the Rising Sun I planned my travel to Japan in 2011, but then the nuclear reactor in Fukushima exploded. Despite Japanese authorities being certainly reassuring, I preferred to change my holidays’ destination. In 2016 we could finally make our dream of visiting Japan come true. My husband and I have a […]

I WENT TO THE CAPITAL, AND I FOUND A SAMURAI Last Summer, I had the chance to spend some days in Rome. Being Italian, it shouldn’t sound so original, but I live in Milan, and I had a few occasions to visit Rome in my life. The first impression was: how the (beep) it’s huge! […]

Are we allowed to use the environment to show our power? Some years ago I had the chance to visit Hong Kong. I went there for business twice in my life: once in 2006 and then again in 2009. I never went there again, after those trips, and honestly, I cannot say I miss it. […]

What do you expect from Scotland? Maybe you may think it is a rainy and cold place, with castles ruins, and legendary characters popping up in the moorland. Nothing might be further from reality. In Scotland, we had one rainy afternoon in a whole week. Besides, the Scots are nice, humorous and very modern people, […]

The importance of burning ships Everyone on Medium and other platforms keeps on telling that you should never give up your job for a side-hustle. At least, you shouldn’t do it, until your side-hustle pays off. Despite it’s certainly a wise suggestion, I did it: I quit my job. And I do not even have […]

How adapting to the new rules will save our peace of mind, and even our own life. Even if I were arriving from Mars, I think I would know what our lovely planet has gone through in the past two years. My Country has been particularly hard hitten by the pandemic, and we paid a […]

World Kindness Day made me think about the origin of kindness On November the 13th it was International Kindness Day. Every day we have something to celebrate, or think of, and even a topic for our posts. I find some of these International Days are a bit funny; for example, the UN calendar shows a […]

Learning from someone does not mean to look like them On October the 27th it will be “national mentor day” in the US. This date made me think about all the mentors I met in my life: some of them just dropped in as school teachers, someone else was chosen as a business mentor. About […]

Feeling home is not always related to a place A couple of days ago, Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp have been down for some hours, and in real-time Twitter was full of memes about the social networks’ blackout. One of my favorites was showing the icons of Instagram and Whatsapp, with the sentence “I should be […]

As a non-native speaker, I am experiencing a curious feeling Some days ago I recorded a voice message to a friend of mine. As I am Italian and my friend is English and he doesn’t speak my language, I sent it in English. I am not sure if it is common, but I always listen […]