Take well a few days of vacation, splurge on the face of illness brunettiani loafers, put on leave or on maternity or licensees. The posts and 'very long, but it' s been a while and many things have happened. Ryanair, Paris, Belgrade, Kosovo ...
I know what you're thinking. No, I was not imprisoned, it was not me: yes I was in Paris, I can confirm this, but I have not robbed Harry Winston. Calm Mother, I have a perfect alibi: the European Youth Sport Forum 2008, organized by ISCA - International Sport Culture Association - ENGSO - European Non Governmental Sports Organizations - at the headquarters of the French Olympic Committee. And a hundred other young men - participants and organizers from all over the continent - can attest. A six-days of discussions, workshops, brainstorming and debates on the White Paper on Sport, published recently by the European Commission, ended two Saturdays ago. For a series of strange coincidences, the trip from Belgrade to Paris passes through Milan, and the delay of an hour and a half on the way back you fly over the Belgrdo by night: the sky catches your eye even hyper-illuminated Cathedral of St. Sava, which dominates the city and the reflection of the bridges over the river from the air is certainly beautiful. It seems to be in Sim City (the game): dim lights illuminate paths and houses, you see warehouses industrial, rivers and bridges, crossed by cars and trains. The square tower blocks become distributed in harmony when it flies over Novi Beograd, just a few moments before landing.
Despite the plane rests softly on the ground, not part of the usual applause italics, as happened on the Ryanair flight is landing in France than to that of Bergamo. It remains hard to strike a blow - but also more than one - in favor of Ryanair planes spacious, clean and elegant with at least one steward and two stewardesses, including at least two speakers of Italian. Before completely positive experience: e-tickets cheap (54 euros round trip, all included), small airports and well organized, zero confusion and no detail left to chance.
Airport Beuvais must be a freak but it is scientifically accurate and completely functional, "Italian-proof": no time to land that already are inside the airport in line to buy a bus ticket to Paris. Time to pay and your luggage is waiting for you on the roller. Five minutes of waiting and the bus, right in front of the exit, arrives and takes you straight to Porte Maillot, one stop from the Champs Elysees (after a good hour drive). Sure, sometimes the controls are tight and suffocating, especially for us Italians notoriously restrictive rules, but ready to advocate always impatient when these restrictive rules affect us personally, but affordable.
The booklet shows that 88% of Ryanair flights are on time (although both parties in the flights are late, the arrival time was still correct: which makes me conclude that the flight is shorter than stated But be sure to get to a place in the timetable fixed by itself justify costs even higher than the 54 Euri with whom I flew from Bergamo in Paris: 164 Euro I think a fair price to fly from Belgrade to Milan with JAT, although microscopic and the plane was delayed - dish of the house - is included in the ticket), that the complaints per 1000 passengers are 0.63 and 99% of the complaints is a response in less than a week. Behind 88% of flights on time declared by Ryanair, is Airfrance with 82, 81 Lufthansa, Iberia and Aer Lingus pull out more (both 78) and Easyjet and British Airways 75 65. Alitalia instead appears on the list of lost luggage, where it occupies an admirable fourth place with only 7.19 in 1000 (I would have said much more: Ryanair 0.6 in 1000, 15.8 Lufthansa, Air France 17.6; worse than Alitalia British Airways only 26.5). Flying at small airports is a real danger of losing luggage is greatly reduced, I'm thinking.
After admiring the view offered from the third floor of the Eiffel Tower, after strolled along the Champs Elysees and after "shot" on the wheel at the Place de la Concorde, with eyes still Montmartre and the Sacre Coeur, you certainly can not be excited at the thought of waiting for the tram number fourteen that never goes out, remembering a pinch of bitterness capillarity Paris Metro: "Ok, quick walk up to Kralija Aleksandra: there I can choose from seven, fourteen and six". Irrespective of the twenty six pounds you drag the trolley you are in a moment Kralija Aleksandra, but as usual there is not any tram. Nervousness: Paris fatigue, flight delay, baggage, wants to get home, cold. Frustration. A traveler tells you something "I do not understand." He continues, a woman says something, he replies, then speaks to you again. Increasing nervousness.
As long as the assumption B comes into operation: when you least expect Belgrade to surprise you. The traveler is asking you where to go because Kralija Aleksandra is locked and no tram will not go, so you have to go on a bus and a parallel alternative. Smile and say ok, but not believe him. He crosses the street. Stay two minutes but no tram crossing the horizon so you think that infuses you loose nothing. And he is there waiting for you to indicate where the bus stop: it makes the road and salt with you on the bus, leaving the course before as foreign and baggage-tailed. Brief talk to your stop: thank and regards. And he smiles spontaneous, glad I helped. Yes, Belgrade is also this.
Sport by the European Youth Forum meeting in Paris to "Find the energy for cooperation" in Belgrade is a short step: instead of a hundred young men, this time there are thirty seniors presidents and leaders of associations of sport for all 'Balkan area. "Ia if zovem Antonio Saccone, italian sam ia, ia govorim srpski: I Have Been Here for a month and half and I just shared with you Almost all my Serbian language knowledge, I am here to present the project SeeYou, I was in the Representing ISCA organizing team. " The smiling seniors interested and follow the presentation that ends with handshakes, pats on the shoulder, bizarre attempts to communicate in a language incomprehensible to me basically. Many of them have understood only that your name is Antonio, who are Italian and speak Serbian. For the record SeeYou is a seminar in September, gathered around a table, young people from former Yugoslavia and Denmark with the aim of promoting sport as an instrument of socialization and integration in a region marked by strong micro recently torn apart by ethnic conflict . Sport has been used as an element of aggregation: the heterogeneous SeeYou team has participated - in the context of the festival Montenegrin "sport for all "in various sports competitions with teams of no more than two players per country. Archived
the Kosovo situation (after an interview in Rome and a telephone with Pristina, the UN has decided not selected for a paid internship year, beginning in February: that then thank goodness I was not soon, if not with the name of the blog was a mess ...) I can only continue the experience in Belgrade. It seems that my research on the perception of the sport is likely to be followed because the ISCA continues to be interested and a delegate of Romania, present at the meeting, I was just invited to collaborate with a scientific journal dedicated to sport and health: Constance in May there will be a conference to greet the opening of doors of this magazine. And who is not thrown out the possibility of teaching Italian here in Serbia somewhere ... Not to mention that the developments could have SeeYou ...
