It's time to take stock also for "Enzo's travels", or for me. An extraordinary year which saw at the center of my journey: the birth of Riccardo, "retirement", the birth of the blog, but also many trips near and far: from France to Spain up to Tenerife in a camper and then new commitments. Borrowing a quote from Lorenzo Radice pronounced by the bishop of Milan Mario Delpini: my wish for 2024 is to "undertake"...
BIRTH OF RICCARDO
The end of year budgets have arrived for me too, or rather for Enzo's travels. An exceptional year...let's start in order. Riccardo arrived on 30 July 2023. A joy desired by Federico and Ilenia which filled our families and brought them much closer. The first months were about attention, about "adaptation". During this period we saw little of the little one and the visits were rightly "limited". Then from the second month, we all got closer. From that moment on, Riccardo was always the center of our families' attention. Then I returned from my trip from Tenerife, and a special feeling was born with my grandson. Here are the smiles, my "stupid" faces, always inventing something to make him smile and rejoice. Now I'm starting to do my grandfather's "job" and take a few rides in a wheelchair. I haven't "changed" it yet, the privilege still belongs to mum and dad, but I don't give up... Thanks Ricky, thanks Fede and Ilenia. (birth link)
NASCITA DE “I VIAGGI DI ENZO”
The project was in the air the day after my "retirement" arrived (May 2023) and the consequent farewell from my role as director of Sempione News which took place on July 1, 2023 strong>.
The new project aims to talk about one of my hobbies: travel. For me, travel is also about moving "close to home" or "domestic" excursions a stone's throw from the city. In the blog I talk about my experiences near us with the aim of SHARING" events that happen in the area, but above all of trips less nearby. In this case, after Ricky's birth, I talked about my camper trips, one of my identifying characteristics, in France, Spain and finally Tenerife (about two months). Each experience was a "collector" of humanity, sociality that enriched me and that I felt the need to "pass on" to you too...Have a good life...(link Enzo's travels)
LA PENSIONE…UN PUNTO DI PARTENZA… PER ….INTRAPRENDERE…
The longed-for retirement in Italy is getting further and further away, and finally in May 2023 it was my turn too. (resignation from 1 July). After 43 years of service and 63 years of age (actual 52 years of work and 67 years of age) I left my last activity, that is, the direction of the online newspaper “SempioneNews”. The online newspaper that I created about 21 years ago has become over the years the first daily newspaper in the Alto Milanese area in terms of the attractiveness of the area going from Rho to Varese and "breaking away" wasn't easy.
I postponed the release after having followed, at the publisher's request, the Palio di Legnano 2023, with satisfaction because thanks to my son Federico, who was also at the time in the S.E.V. Group SpA, we have created an editorial team made up of around ten journalists and a team of five photographers and videomakers. “Show must go on” as Fred Mercury says. Thanks to Dr. ssa Bramati and thanks to the "boys-colleagues"...(link article by Sempionenews)
THE FRANCE TOUR IN CAMPER
Resourcefulness also means looking ahead...After Ricky's birth and retirement, everything is ready for a new life. With Donatella and Fido Aramis, we leave for a month, August, for Northern France, direction "cliffs" of Etretat. Journey with stages rich in "diversity", culture, sociality. We touched on the most well-known “Unesco Heritage” with a hint of envy but also of observation of the differences with our Italy, which doesn't joke about World Heritage...(SEE SUMMARYI)
MY TRIP TO SPAIN IN A CAMPER
The same goes for the Tour in Spain but with other purposes.
Spain was an intermediate stop to reach Tenerife. In ten days, with my friend Antonietta and "her" trusty Martin, we crossed the beautiful Iberian peninsula "horizontally", leaving or arriving by ship from Barcelona, up to Seville for boarding Huelva on the Fred-Olsen ferry towards Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Here too, the colors and flavors of Hispanic culture. The sun, the sea, the dazzling culture of the big cities , such as Barcelona, Valencia, Terragona, Cordoba up to the Moorish Seville….another bath in beauty (clearly the UNESCO World Heritage sites which are essential stages)...( stop a Barcelona)
TENERIFE
The Tenerife experience is not just a journey. Tenerife is an anthropological study trip. In two months, in addition to visiting the natural beauties of the southernmost volcanic island of the Canary Archipelago, I "discovered" cultural beauties, sometimes not appropriately valorised by the "Canari", taken from a Tourism "exasperated", by a confusion that exists in the rush to live "everyone" in Tenerife. And here I discovered some positive aspects but also some critical aspects. First of all the climate factor, which is the fundamental attractor. The urban fairy tale of low living prices is no longer true. The prices of rentals and house purchases (due to a perverse "vacation" rule) have risen dramatically. The same goes for consumer goods, which have grown even more in the South of the Island. On the other hand, tax advantages (only if you are a resident!), free motorway, petrol for 1.2 euros, no heating …added together “Cuban” at least ten thousand euros!. I got this information by interviewing Italian citizens, Canarians and foreigners who in the column "Living in the Canary Islands" talked about the positivity and critical aspects of the volcanic island. (see interview)
INTRAPRESENTATION AND SERENITY
Returning to the topic mentioned above, for me "undertaking"means not stopping and doing beautiful things, which make you happy in "your" time while respecting others, of its needs...but without exasperation...For me there are three "I's" for the future: Inspiration, Commitment, Resourcefulness. In this regard, one of my new projects is the direction of the official newspaper of the College of Captains and Contrade, Il Carroccio”. A project that I accepted with pleasure and pride. Here too the three I's. We have created a young and motivated editorial team and we want to bring innovation (INTRAPRENDE). Thanks to those who believed in me: the GM, Raffaele Bonito, the advisor Davide Fuschetto, the editorial team and finally thanks toPeppino!
My greatest wish for 2024 is serenity and resourcefulness because as an anonymous person says: “Resourcefulness is that thing that lies between wanting and being able”.
Happy 2024!
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