A story compromising between “spaghetti alle vongole” and Internet connectivity. This story is based on an article I wrote for a local magazine covering Fregene, the village I live in, near...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2024/04/a-choice-between-afghanistan-or-italy.html
I arrived in Antigua two days before the training started on Sisi. It gave me the opportunity to relax a bit, enjoy the local scenery, and to go and have a look at the boat. She was in port, bu...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2024/04/sailing-faster-than-i-ever-did-before.html
Sisi is Austrian-Italian. Dark-skinned. Slender and tall. Her body shape is dazzling. People get excited just looking at her features. She always attracts attention wherever she goes. Named aft...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2024/04/my-love-affair-in-antigua.html
This blog is mostly a cut and paste from my microblogs published during our transatlantic passage. Apologies for the typoes. Some of the blogs are hard-core sailing bits, and some are.. well... ...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2024/01/sailing-across-atlantic-2023-version.html
When training people in sailing and cruising, one of my mantras, as an instructor is: "The sailing itself is easy, it is all the rest which is complex" - and that "rest" might be route pl...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2024/01/training-on-how-to-pick-up-mooring-ball.html
One of my key lessons-learned while sailing for 20-odd years: The better a boat sails, to more she is a bitch to moor. Aneas, our Solaris40, is a great racing cruiser. We charter her from Fast...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2024/01/a-skippers-nightmare-tangled-anchor.html
I have done several ocean passages, including four transatlantic trips ("transats") as volunteering crew or first mate. I also help moderating a Transat Facebook group run by NoForeignLand . �...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2024/01/tips-to-crew-on-boat-during-ocean.html
PRELUDE Back in July 2021, I published a post on several Facebook groups, looking for a crew position on a yacht which intended to sail from Europe to the Caribbean, during the yearly "wint...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2023/10/sailing-across-atlantic-2022-version.html
"Perhaps there will go both winter and spring, And next summer also and the whole year, But one time you will come, I know this for sure, And I shall surely wait for I promised that last...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2019/04/marita-solberg-solveigs-song.html
Where I live on the Italian west coast, near Rome, there is a beach bar. It is one of my three favourite bars in the whole world. It is nothing more than a shack on the beach, but they have a ...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2018/05/sunset-worshippers.html
Open letter to Irina Bokova, Director General UNESCO, Paris. Dear Ms Bokova, I attended a scientific conference - on climate change, above all - at UNESCO in July. I was very surprised tha...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2015/09/unesco-not-exactly-greening-blue-open.html
As said in an earlier post , there is something to be said to define the border between press freedom, freedom of expression and just plain human decency. In their recent post, Charlie Hebdo...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2015/09/jenesuispluscharlie.html
An excellent video by my friend James Brooks about our 1997 expedition to Heard Island in the Antarctic. This video draws an excellent parallel between our expedition and the first scientific...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2015/03/another-view-on-our-expedition-to-heard.html
Nothing justifies curtailing the freedom of expression, press freedom, nor the killing of journalists. Nothing justifies the slaughtering of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and journalists. But ...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2015/01/jesuischarlie-or-not.html
The coach had put together the perfect team for the Chicago Bears. The only thing that was missing was a good quarterback. He had scouted all the colleges and even the Canadian and European Le...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2014/04/the-afghan-quarterbak.html
They say if you put a frog in water and slowly warm up the pot, the frog will not notice the increasing temperature and boil to death. A metaphor showing how often we get used to situations, a...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2014/03/the-us-and-dirty-wars.html
Rick Mereki -filmmaker and traveller traveled through 11 countries in 44 days and made this video which is both simple and complex at the same time.. Love it. PS: 11 countries in 44 days,...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2014/02/travel-world-in-just-minute.html
Take a point somewhere in the middle between Africa and India, and then go South until you hit Antarctica... Somewhere there, lays a small island called Heard Island. "Property" of Australia, th...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2014/02/the-crazy-things-people-do-have-you.html
It feels like yesterday, but it was 20 years ago, almost to the date, when I left for my first Antarctic expedition. Our target was Peter I island, one of the most remote corners of the world'...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2014/01/the-crazy-things-people-do-my-first.html
This must be the very first video I ever made, an all-analog tale from an expedition to Howland Islands, in the middle of the Pacific, back in 1993. The video is a capture of the magical mo...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2013/12/the-crazy-things-people-do-howland.html
Actual meaning yet to be explained. Courtesy De Speld , with HT @JanRadio
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2013/12/shocking-graph-revealed.html
In the recent years, I had the opportunity to help highlighting the work young people do, throwing the spotlight on their projects and success stories, their struggles and challenges. I fir...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2013/12/empower-youth-by-highlighting-their.html
Kickstarter recently featured a funding request for an interesting project by Rebecca Fowler and Francesco Fiondella. The project wants to make a 2014 calendar with "the hottest climate science...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2013/12/climate-scientists-become-climate-models.html
Last night, just before sunset, I saw a large garbage truck, parked next to the alley way giving access to beach. I walked onto the sand and I saw the two garbage men. Both of them looked st...
http://www.theroadtothehorizon.org/2013/11/italy-sunsets-and-garbage-men.html
In our ongoing quest to find good and exciting advocacy videos, I found this one from the RainForest Alliance . HT to Susan for the tip!