Pics

 By: AndyFerrari    11:14  design, florence, italy, leather, scuola del cuoio   No comments

Those moments when all the people in the world decided, at the same time, to use the sewing machine...

You'd think the tables remained clean and pretty. Give it 15 min and it was all turned upside down =p

Lots of concentration....

Pics completely stolen from teacher's facebook (still problems with the camera...)

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Exercise in Florence

 By: AndyFerrari    09:20  exercise, florence, italy, running, walking   No comments

Since I don't have Pa Kua classes anymore and there's still almost a week to go home, I decided to find places to go running.

Usually, people will indicate the Le Cascine park, wich is a little west from the central station Santa Maria Novella, where you can also find a street market if you stay in the road along the Arno river, the Viale Abramo Lincoln. Another place is at Nave a Rovezzano, wich is in the other side of the river and of the town center (a little after Piazza Beccaria if you're on the northe side of the river or from Piazzale Michelangelo if you're south).

I also found a program that indicates routes trough the city's streets, from the simplest and easiest ones, to longer and more dificult ones, like going up to the Piazzale Michelangelo and take the chance to enjoy the view.

http://www.turismo.intoscana.it/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/walking-pieghevole-48x48_page_2.jpg<- the descritions of the routes (in italian)

http://www.turismo.intoscana.it/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/walking-pieghevole-48x48_page_1.jpg<- and the routes indications.

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Packing

 By: AndyFerrari    15:34  italy, packing, room, sheets, suitcase, towels, travel, trip, weigh   No comments

Three days to go. And I'm still changing stuff in my suitcase(although some people told me they packed only in the same day as the flight, but last time I did that, didn't work out so great....).

Actually, what's taking space and weighting the most are the sheets. When you choose to stay in a rented room there's the possibility that the owner wont provide the things you need for the bed.

Normaly that won't happen if you stay with a family, but that's not the case here.

So what I decided to do, so it won't turn my life in hell in the way back: buying microfiber towels(wich you can find at sports equipment stores) since they weigh almost nothing and take less than half the space a common towel does (and as a bonus, they also dry really fast), and instead of sheets, I'm just taking sheet fabric cut in a suitable size, that I'm won't have to bring back in case I'm lacking space at the end (usually they are way cheaper them the sewed all done pretty ones you buy on the stores. It's not that pretty, but you won't regret it if you have to leave them).

If practical is what you're looking for, it's always a good idea taking things like this that can be left behind.

In Italy you can actually find places to leave these things for those in need right on the street. I don't remember the name for it, but I'll post photos when I get there.

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Now in english

 By: AndyFerrari    11:52  blog, course, english, italy, travel, trip, version   No comments

For a while I had a blog only in portuguese, but since I'll be writing mostly about my trip to Italy and the course, and later the results from it, I decided to have it in english too.

Since I found no better way to do this (Icouldn't figure wordpress out yet, and honestly, no time for this now...) I just opened this new blog and I'll be posting here only in english. In the version in portuguese there's a link to this one and also the other way around.

So, this will be it for now, later I'll update with the last thing I posted there.

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