Twenty-five years ago, recently graduated, tired and desperate from work that did not work, of family relationships that were not, from the house that was not the one life that is not geared ... twenty five years ago in short, just at the beginning of August, pale and hot, we were able to start thinking about the holidays. Without spending too much, please! That there were no money, no one knew when it would arrive. Someone suggested the Val di Funes, maybe something there you could still find.
And so the 4 or 5 August we finally from Milan, with all our car burglary. Along the way we stopped to send by mail the application to participate in a contest by a country town in the belt of Milan, a bad place, but I did not see alternatives.
The room we had taken was just across the river, on the less exposed to the sun in the middle of the valley. We even noticed that there were more of the spectacular Dolomites, and the next morning we left for a steep walk in the woods behind the house, to Flitz (Valluzza, wrong place names in Italian). We were not even on the map (it was the first time we went to the mountains since we were kids, we thought the parents) and in a short we lost the trail. Then began to wander in the woods, there was no one around to ask. But we did not want to give up, and then continued rising, according to some tracks and some old signal, all sweaty, scratched by brambles and nettles, angry and in a foul mood.
Suddenly we came out on top. And beyond, a vast grassy plain, neat, here and there, cows and horses, traversed by civilized people. And a spectacular view, the great Odle, Sassolungo, Alpe di Siusi, snowy mountains in the distance! The small shelter in the hut, a good meal, tasty and cheap.
That trip changed my life (it's a bit 'too much to say, but it's true). I learned that we must not give up. That we need to work hard, and that there is ultimately the award. Situations that may arise hidden and neglected nice surprises. At home we were guests of
Vecchini two Germans, not at all uncomfortable to have around the house a boy and a girl who passed a lot of time in bed to make love, but actually quite curious (very discreetly, though) from our culinary traditions. Outside, the trees and the steep lawns mowed down hard under the sun to entire families, seemed gardens. At the party of firemen, was present throughout the country, with an invitation to be courteous with the only Italian guests. And the old woman, when he thought he did not hear anyone, liked to sing with organ accompaniment (but this is actually a memory of many years later).
Be ', from the time it started to get better.
And the competition for the place in town I did not even presented.
The room we had taken was just across the river, on the less exposed to the sun in the middle of the valley. We even noticed that there were more of the spectacular Dolomites, and the next morning we left for a steep walk in the woods behind the house, to Flitz (Valluzza, wrong place names in Italian). We were not even on the map (it was the first time we went to the mountains since we were kids, we thought the parents) and in a short we lost the trail. Then began to wander in the woods, there was no one around to ask. But we did not want to give up, and then continued rising, according to some tracks and some old signal, all sweaty, scratched by brambles and nettles, angry and in a foul mood.
Suddenly we came out on top. And beyond, a vast grassy plain, neat, here and there, cows and horses, traversed by civilized people. And a spectacular view, the great Odle, Sassolungo, Alpe di Siusi, snowy mountains in the distance! The small shelter in the hut, a good meal, tasty and cheap.
That trip changed my life (it's a bit 'too much to say, but it's true). I learned that we must not give up. That we need to work hard, and that there is ultimately the award. Situations that may arise hidden and neglected nice surprises. At home we were guests of
Vecchini two Germans, not at all uncomfortable to have around the house a boy and a girl who passed a lot of time in bed to make love, but actually quite curious (very discreetly, though) from our culinary traditions. Outside, the trees and the steep lawns mowed down hard under the sun to entire families, seemed gardens. At the party of firemen, was present throughout the country, with an invitation to be courteous with the only Italian guests. And the old woman, when he thought he did not hear anyone, liked to sing with organ accompaniment (but this is actually a memory of many years later).
Be ', from the time it started to get better.
And the competition for the place in town I did not even presented.
