Giro D'Italia 96' - Across Italy in 96' ( Grand Finale )

Storia vera dalla vita - True Life Story

Oh, Italy, everything was like a dream. It seems like I went for a sleep, had a great Italian dream than woke up & It was gone. Bella Italia, everything was beautiful even our horrible Italian Embassy Episode.

I still feel the taste of the Ferry that we used to come to Bari, our first stop, old fashioned train from Bari to Palermo, even those crazy kids running after us are special now and then were ugly. Spaghetti & pizzas in million ways, although I was on a diet than.

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Mamma Mia, the smell of the Sea, Togas, oh yes, the Togas on Toga Party, that was Special, too. I remember the curtains were too big, so we had to be creative with Nori and do unique Toga designs.

And yes, my stove, we became the main guys in Palermo as everybody needed coffee in the morning the Croats, Slovenians, Serbs,...my whole ex - country in our room. We were center of Italy.

I see inserts from the dream and I see the stone streets of Erice, beautiful Castle from dreams. I remember one of the most beautiful Leonard Cohen's song where he walks on the stone streets very similar like Erice.

And Rome and the Castle of Rome just after Vatican City. Everything was special and many things new. Italian mopeds, Italian guys talking on the mobile phones & walking on the streets. And the stairs up to the top of the Cathedrals. Nori was true maniac for stairs & monuments. She had restless wish to visit each known monument in the City.

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However, everything was sweet & nice. I wish, I could easily catch a plane and go in Rome. There is direct flight from Skopje. I wonder, if it would be the same Rome like than or everything will be changed.

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I cannot even find my Marcos as a lot of years have passed. I don't know what to say as nostalgy is killing me hard. By the wish of the destiny & will of God maybe one day, I will be back there.

Since, than I travelled many destinations but as 96' was it was novewhere else. I was with my young student engineer's brain in Italy, Nori was also student, we were young and happy. Now, Nori is still young but has 2 sons, I have one. We are doing business & I usually travel as the Business ask.

The life brought many smells, smell of Victory, smell of failures, smell of fresh air and smell of old & dirty. But, Italian air was something Special.

For that purpose, let's celebrate Life & New Adventures, let their nice smell of Victory always remains in our minds as a brief reminder of our Next Grand Travel in Bella Italia.

( The End )