The journey to Bologna Last week, my girlfriend and I visited one of the most famous cities of Italy, Bologna. I didn't use to arrive at the last moment so, we planned the journey in this way: by car from home to metro station and then, we had to take metro to arrive at train station because the train left at 11.00. So, we parked our car close to the metro station and we walked 3 minutes but while we were entering into the station we heard a voice message that informed us that the metro was closing for a technical issue, without any estimate about the reopen. After an initial fear not to arrive in time at the train station, I had an idea: using car sharing. Fortunately, I saw one car parked close to the metro station before, and I was already registered on this car sharing so, immediately I reserved that car and we ran to take it. At the beginning, the ETA was 4 minutes before the departure of the train. There was no traffic and thanks to Google Maps too, we arrived 10 minutes before. The funny thing was the train was 5 minutes delay. So, we could reach our seat quietly and after 2.30 hours we arrived to Bologna. It was raining, we left our luggages at the b&b and we had lunch in a characteristic restaurant close to the train station. After that, we went around the city center and then we came back to the hotel to relax us. My girlfriend studied for the interview and I chose a good restaurant for dinner. She liked this restaurant and we came back the next day for lunch. The next day, we had breakfast and then I accompany her where she had to do the interview, and while she did the interview, I took an English class with my teacher. It was funny walking around the center of Bologna speaking with you and display to you principal things of Bologna. After lunch, we took the train to come back to Rome and our journey finished.

Christmas's Time Today, I would want to talk about the Xmas's holiday and in particular about xmas's atmosphere that is very particular. In fact in those days all people are busy to purchase the gift for own relatives and friends (or own dear?) paying much money. The negative aspects are that all shops are crowded and it's also difficult to enter in a shop to see or to choose which items to buy. Moreover, the traffic is caotic and it is impossible to park a car even in Malls which have big spaces for this. I tried to go at Mall in early morning, almost at the opening but there were already more people than usual. There are many positive things about this period and one of these is you could get togheter relatives who you don't see during the year (for some people this is a reason not to celebrate this period, but it isn't the same for me because I love my relatives and it is an opportunity to see them. During the year, everyone has many things to do and because of this I cannot often to see them. The second one regards children. It is a fantastic period for them because Santa Claus brings their gifts and they don't have to go at school for 2 weeks. Thus, they can watch many cartoons on TV and to play for more time than usual. Another good things it is you will be able to eat different foods than usual, like typical regional traditional food. For example, if you are sicilian like me, you could eat many particular food both salty and sweet. And you, What do you like to eat? Do you prefer salty or sweet food?

Technology, technology and technology Today I would want to talk about technology. It's a one of my hobbies and in particular I love smartphone to discover which area new features inside of each of them. Everyday, I read many articles about IT and watch many videos where it is possible listening reviews for the main devices. Unfortunately, I'm not able to buy all that I would want but I dream when I watch these videos. I have had my first phone when I was 18 years old, in 2000. Basically, I think that people use devices to chat on social network, to watch videos and other social activities. Now, calling is not more the main uses of it. The main feature is the camera, most devices mount two rear-cameras to make beautiful pictures. Another important feature is the battery. In fact, if a device's charge last to more of a day, means it has a good battery. Which is your favourite device?

Italy was eliminated This week happened a drama: Italy team didn't qualified to the next World's Cup in Russia. It is very a bad thing for all italian soccer movement. I don't remember when it happend a similar thing. I remember when I was younger and in particular when it was 90's and there was the World's Cup in Italy. There was a spectacular atmosphere and all people watched all match of the Italy. Unfortunately, Italy lost in semi-final versus Argentina (with Maradona) after the penalty series. The succeeding World's Cup was played in the USA and Italy arrived in final versus Brazil (with Ronaldo), but Italy again lost after the penalty series. I remember very well all things happened in this World's Cup.