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A moroccan guy eating italian pasta…and an italian guy eating moroccan food…but LOL!!!

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Ramadan is finished and we have some days of holiday to celebrate it…but where? Of course at the beach!

	Welcome in Essaouira…
	…the windy city of Morocco!
	At the harbour fishermans sell the fish get in the morning…
	… and they cook the fish for you too!
	Red hot Cicchi Pepper!
	Hicham on the Sqala, the spanish ancient bastion of Essaouira
	I like this picture!
	Osama, the Jordanian “metal friend” , on the beach
	Hicham poses for the new Prince of Persia game
	The most windy beach of Morocco…
	…perfect for kitesurfing!
	At the market you can find every kind of spices…and not only…
	This is the “real” Kebab, not the one in Milan!
	Dinner…”Chez François”, a very good and homely restaurant inside the medina.
	All of us!

After only ten days…I have left Italy again for another country: Morocco.
I’ll be here for the next 4 months to work at the Casablanca Ubisoft office.

	Before entering in Morocco we have to answer to some questions: why you are here? You are a terrorist? And so on…
	Palm trees at the Casablanca airport…I took a picture of a cop while he was doing a fine to an italian car…but here we can’t take pictures (because terrorism) so i had to remove it from my camera. I’m here for not even one hour and they already know me…LOL
	Advertisement at the airport…mmm…something is telling me talking here will be funny
	My home for the next months. Company has given us a car too, the one in the picture.
	Dinner with Camille, Yacine and Damianji. Pier took the picture.
	Pier and Damianji are playing with X-Box. Damianji has to train for the course in Paris…yes…Game Design is an hard work!
	Dinner at the Caffe Mauri…the best almond juice in the world!
	Shopping at the Marjan mall….what? Unbelievable!! Here they still sell Olivetti PCs!!
	Hassan II, the second biggest mosque in the world.
	In the mosque’s square…only muslim people are allowed to enter inside.

At the end, the last step…

	Only 87.6 Km to Finisterre…easy, after 777 Km!
	Santiago and the Cathedral in glory
	With Carlo from Florence (next to me) outside the albergue of Olveiroa.
	Finally the ocean!!! WOW!!!
	Swimming in the ocean!! Yeah! Freedom!!
	Mmm…i know this guy!
	Only 1 Km to walk…the lighthouse is near!
	0.00 Km
	Burning the clothes used during the walking…I feel ligther

Now it’s time to come back home…more wise? I don’t know…probably more older, but:

“It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage.”

Dott. Jones…now i know that it’s fu**ing true!!!

Yesterday morning i finally arrived in Santiago…now all is more clear

Next step…Finisterre…the end of the ancient Camino…stay up!

I arrived today in Melida…remain only 50 Km to Santiago and i begin to be a bit tired…
Here some photos of some pillgrims i met during the walking.
I want to say them a big “Ciao” !!

P.S. François, where are you ???

Hi! It is not easy to find an Internet point with an USB connection…but finally i found one!
The walking is beatyfull and i’m meeting people from all the world…Here some photos…stay up for next update!

Finalmente è giunto il momento!
I biglietti sono stati fatti, lo zaino è pronto…le gambe pure (per adesso).

Prima tappa: Il Duomo di Pistoia dove, nella Cappella del Crocifisso, si trova un frammento osseo del cranio di San Giacomo (o più precisamente un pezzetto di apofisi mastoidea, come direbbe il mio amico Dott. Caini).

Da Pistoa nel Medioevo si dice che partisse il cammino dei Cavalieri alla volta di Santiago, pertanto ho deciso anche io di partire da questa città. Farò in treno il tratto da Pistoia a Saint Jean Pied de Port, dove inizia il cammino a piedi vero e proprio.

La storia del ritrovamento del corpo di San Giacomo è molto bella, ne includo la parte principale, presa dal libro “Cammino di Santiago” delle Parrocchia San Michele Arcangelo:

Dice la tradizione che un eremita di nome Pelagio (uomo del mare), che viveva in un luogo chiamato Solovio (attualmente sede della chiesa di San Fiz de Solovio, nell’attuale Santiago de Compostela), osservò durante numerose notti, nel bosco di Libredón, delle luci nel cielo, simili a stelle cadenti, che rischiaravano un punto preciso del bosco (anno 813). Quella stella rivelatrice e artefice del ritrovamento della tomba di San Giacomo, diventerà un’altro dei simboli legati all’Apostolo ed al suo culto. Ma non si trattò di una semplice pioggia di stelle, la rotta del Cammino di Santiago è impressa da sempre nella volta celeste ed è nota col nome di Via Lattea. Per questo motivo, il cammino che porta alla città di Santiago è detto anche “Cammino delle stelle”.

Da qui il nome Santiago de Compostela, cioè San Giacomo del Campo di Stelle.

Bon! Si parte!

All the times that I’ve cried
Keeping all the things I knew inside
And it’s hard, but it’s harder
To ignore it
If they were right I’d agree
But it’s them they know, not me
Now there’s a way and I know
That i have to go away
I know I have to go

(Cat Stevens, Father and Soon)

If you see this post, then it works! Hello World!

Just returned from PythonDue, the second italian conference about Pycon. Guest of honor Richard Stallman, pardon, Sant’IGNUzio