Monday, July 30, 2007
dopo tanta fatica...
...finalmente si va in vacanza!
Questo implica che per le prossime due settimane il blog non verra` aggiornato anche se mi aspetto fior fior di commenti al nostro ritorno, specie da chi e` gia` stato in vacanza quest'estate.
Per quanto riguarda invece il BBQ di venerdi` scorso: alla fine si e` risolto che non serviva portar la propria carne, mettersela sulla griglia e mangiarsela in solitudine; era invece una normalissima grigliata dove "chi voleva portava qc" e il tutto veniva condiviso...
Cmq noi con i nostri cevapcici (amichevolmente chiamati civas) abbiamo fatto una sazia figura.
A questo punto la mia nuova teoria e` che i popoli piccolo-crucchi (tipo crucchi del sud e svizzeri) usino far cosi`... conferme? smentite?
tipo da qc che casualmente vive in Germania?
ok, buona vacanza (a noi)!
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
German BBQ
Per una volta mi metto a difendere la abitudini patrie contro le asocialita` dei popoli cruccofoni.
Da quando siamo qui ad Amsterdam siamo stati invitati a due barbeques (o, se preferite, l'italianissimo "grigliata"), il primo in Cermania, organizzato da un ragazzo tedesco (non Ratzinger), il secondo qui in Olanda, organizzato da un ragazzo olandese (non van Ratzinger).
Il figo e` che per la seconda volta ci e` stato chiesto di "portarsi la propria carne da mettere sulla griglia da casa".
Eh??? Cioe` mi chiedi di venire alla tua festa e devo portarmi il cibo da casa?
Si, ma non solo: non e` che poi la` si condivide tutto (del tipo "ciascuno porta qc") ma ognuno si mangia in un angolino la propria roba e si beve la birra che si e` portato da casa... ma quanto triste e`???
Cmq mi son fatto un po' di statistica e devo dir che, spezzando una lancia in testa ad un olandese, tutti i dutch a cui ho chiesto (Martijn e Minko) rinnegano questa attitudine e la bollano come tedesca o amerikana, mentre tutti i tedeschi a cui l'ho chiesto mi hanno confermato l'usanza.
Purtuttavia il dubbio rimane (almeno fino a venerdi` che ci sara` sto BBQ)
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
mestamente...
(aka: chi se ne frega di un albero che cade nel silenzio del bosco?)
ok, dopo il fallimentare tentativo del blog in inglese che io avevo fortemente caldeggiato, decido per un colpo di mano (autoerotismo mentale?) di approfittare dell'assenza di eleonora (attualmente e` a 40km al largo della costa sud francese) - che cmq credo sia favorevole - per ritornare alla lingua dei padri (non miei cmq, visto che parlano in dialetto).
Lo faccio a malincuore ma spero questo renda il blog un po' piu` pop, e quindi appetibile (la prossima mossa sara` un banner porno).
Comunque sia, come si vede chiaramente dall'immagine, siamo andati a vedere Transformers, the Movie. Beh, figo no? A parte il fatto che potevano benissimo fare 3 ore senza dialoghi ne` uomini e mostrare solo roboti (plurale di robot in ceco) che si trasformano e soddisfare cmq tutti, il film era guardabile, no?
Ok, loro erano diversi dai cartoni, megatron non si trasformava in pistola, e non c'era soundblaster... pero` per il resto mi sono piaciuti.
Poi il fatto che il mio personaggio preferito, Starscream, sia sopravvissuto (anche se speravo vincessero per una volta i cattivi... maledetti autobot-americani) e` motivo di gioia comune.
Tuttavia potevano sforzarsi un pelin di piu`, tipo:
perche` non hanno usato una colonna sonora ricalcante la sigla del cartone????
bestemmie...
ok, cmq alla fine son stato soddisfatto.
specie alla fine quando il robot Parisi dichiara al mondo che alle primarie degli autobot votera` per Rosy Bindi (o era Susy Blady?)
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Garlic Queen (or garlic queer??)
Last Sunday we wanted to go to the cinema to see Transformers, but when we were there 4 hours before the show there was a queue of tens of meters OUTSIDE the cinema... so, also considering the fact that it was probably the only day of summer (that was more what I call Spring, but still far better then the normal Autumn!), we decided to have a walk around the city, trying to do some nice pictures and enjoying Amsterdam under the sunlight (it's easier to see a rich guy passing in the eye of a needle...). So, at dinner time (that it's an average between the normal dinner time and the dutch dinner time) we started to think about a restaurant... and why not try this amazing garlic Queer? I mean, Queen? It's in the most fashion (fascion) street of Amsterdam, where all the cocktail bars and fancy restaurant are, and it sounded nice. Indeed it was very nice. Probably too expensive for what we got, but we even receive a nice pin with written "Sorry, I've just eaten at Garlic Queen"... Only one pin because I think the waiter consider that Ermes has improved after the dinner (... :o)) ) It was very nice, all the dishes had a big amount of garic in, although it was much lighter then I expected, so we were not so smelly afterward... The grill with Francesco is definitively a more touching experience...
Anyway, if you want to have a look at the menu go to http://www.garlicqueen.nl/index.php?lang=en
It's worthy a look! :)
Sunday, July 01, 2007
TT Assen
Hi Everybody!!
So, here our last adventure... We have been to the TT circuit in Assen to support Valentino Rossi!!!!! And, as you may know, our support has been essential, because he finally won!
Well, the day started well, we wake up, took the car and start our trip to Assen. At few kilometers from the circuit there was the police that made all the cars exit from the highway, because there were far tooo many motorcycles, so there was no space for cars. Unfortunatly, outside the highway there were no signs or anything to help us reaching out destination, so it took us a while. What's more, the parking for the cars was right on the opposite side of our tribune, so we had to walk all around the circuit to get to our places. The 125cc motorcycles were anyway faster the we were walking, so, the race finished before we reached the places and we were just in time to hear the Italian Hymn. Then we have followed the 250cc race, but when the first motorbike of the motogp passed across we could really hear the difference. Each of these motorbikes makes the same noise of a jet plane. You can imagine 30 of them. Amazing!
We were quite lucky with our position, becaus ewe where just before the last turn, where all the overtaking took place. So, every lap, all the public stood up to see if Rossi was overtaking somebody, and for 11 times it was a great show!! Very exciting! Incredibly, it was the first day after almost 3 weeks in which it was not constantly raining, but there was almost the sun... so, good weather for Vale!
After the race we had another walk all around the circuit, so I bought a ot of cool merchandise of Valentino Rossi, but I didn't manage to get the autograph, he probably flew away witha n helicopter (no jokes).
But the show continued in the queue of the highway... It seems that the Dutch people has never seen a motorcycle in their life... in some way I can believe it, because are not so common as in Italy, but still... It's true that there were more then 5 thousand bikes that from the circuit were driving back home through the highway, and the cars in queue (including us) were leaving a plenty of space to all the motos to pass. Butyou cannot imagine, there were hundreds, thousand of Dutch having picnic in the border of the highway or standing on the bridges over the way to watch the motorbikes...Amazing... At a certain point it even started to rain, but still people was standing there like fools... I can't understand them.... Anyway, it was a great day, I really enjouy! And I sow Valentino Rossi, so I'm super happy!! And he won, so ... WOW!!!!
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