Nine years later, back in London, the great capital of United Kingdom

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24. 08. 2008 GMT (ENGLAND)
London nine years later. The last time I had walked these streets a large backpack, a tremendous thirst for knowledge and adventure and a lot of inexperience and naivete!
How many things have changed since then. It 'a whole life changed. If only I think ...
Today we spent the morning market in Camden Town. A mixture of cultures, languages, styles and ways of life. Omelette different existences.
Every time I stopped at a stall or a kiosk there was always the same question: "Where are you from?" Then the globe began to spin crazy to stop now in Pakistan, now in France, Korea, Thailand, Myanmar ...
Chatting with vendors, meet, exchange ideas, reviews, tips, advice, congratulate those who exhibit and sell original designs ...
In the afternoon we are sucked into the "Carnival Tropicale" Notting Hill. The parade was infinite and each half was carrying huge crates of music, the real mobile discos and behind them rows of black girls, masked dancing bewitched by the music ... Many people waved the flags of their countries of origin, I did not expect to find a large Caribbean community so ...
I noticed, however, that the various groups were not divided by country, as I expected, but neighborhoods. Federica, a Turin Italian who works in a kiosk here in Camden Town, told me that the evening became very dangerous place because of the various bands of the districts took advantage of the casino to adjust some account ...
These people came from real earthly paradise where there's always the sun. It seemed that on this occasion to attempt to recreate their "natural habitat" in a more gray and rainy London who does not know the sun ...
25. 08. 2008 London (England)
Live from the Camden Town Market.
This morning we did it! Wake up at seven, excellent breakfast prepared by dear Emilia, metro and bus ride to arrive in time to take place in the market as sellers!
We look, while large commercial machine begins to open eyes, to wake up after the tough weekend. He does so very slowly because today is the Bank Holiday and people are not working. But merchants are all here for their holidays are reason for further work.
The stands are beginning to take shape. Many skeletons of iron become jewelers road, erobristerie Israeli art galleries in London. There are countless more ...
It was the first time witnessed the emergence of a market ... I always hated them because they messed up too many, too many people pushing you, crushes you ...
This morning I saw / experienced looking at this new experience with a different eye. Our expectation of sellers, impressions, hopes the award of the stand, the decoration of the same, each using their talent, creativity!
Yesterday visitor today by the seller in this market now already feel a little as "mine." Assistant to my brother, who tries to bring her T-shirt and with them his art.
A few hours later we were already friends and neighbors all dealers outlining the various characters: the slow and wise 80 year old Croatian scented soaps, the deranged wizard Sirus; ilsimpatico and nostalgic Neapolitan painter Valerio who occasionally told us anecdotes of Italian emigrated, and the pair of Chinese bijotteria and I could go for long ... I like to imagine now again talking with the public trying to sell, happily, its
25. 08. 2008 London (England)


Charly is just broken for Italy. And 'bad split during a trip ...
But this morning we managed to visit the Greenwich Observatory. He was born in order to help browsers as often happened that were lost or end up dead from hunger and thirst in the ocean, or even crash into some rocks.
The first line of the meridian of the globe ... Point of reference for all clocks in the world!
Only. Sitting Room Emy, I note my first impressions, occasionally glanced at the window overlooking direttmante Bellotto Road and admire the quiet English life that quietly runs through my front ...

27. 08. 2008 London (England)
Sitting in a small park between Big Ben, The Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey.
Nine years ago I was right here ... Backpacks bigger than us, our enthusiasm, our immense spirit of adventure ...
Today I did some tourists: Piccadilly Circus, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square ... At Covent Garden hopranzato with Emy with a tasty 'jacket potato' onion ...
Covent Garden was a bit disappointed, I expected more people.
In the afternoon they returned back to Notting Hill. The park made famous by the homonymous movie with Julia Roberts did not find, in fact I have not even tried, I am directed to Portobello Road, Notting Hill in a much more tranquil carnevalizia I had met a few days ago .. .
Portobello Road reminded me of my childhood and especially of the cartoon: Mary Poppins in which there was a beautiful song dedicated to the small market the same name. I am strolling down the street stopped to admire the many antiques shops and their junk ...
Shortly after I left the subway just at the Big Ben ... Station: Westminster. Many flashbacks appear in my mind, I remember all the times we've been ... from the first (1996) ... About Abbey Westiminster and I will print before my eyes a group photo taken that right here with my fellow college at Oxford!


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