Easter? WHEN DO GET!
After a wild night with the usual Federico, the usually merciless sunshine hits the eye so that you - even if the 9.30 - sleep good that he's gone. A quick breakfast and milk-based wafer, shower and hand wash clothing intimate weekly. I took the test, the focus Trg Republike (Republic Square): if you normally under the horse in front of the National Museum is expected to appointments, lunch and a half is scheduled to leave the Delta Tour, a bike race that sees the committed junior and senior categories: the 115km route will pass through and Pancevo (laughing industrial center - about 100,000 - located 15km from Belgrade known for a refinery bombed by NATO for a horror movie recently shot in the warehouses), Kort, Smerderevo (a lovely town situated on the Danube between rolling hills of fruit trees in bloom, best known for the castle of Despot Stefan) and again in Belgrade, before the arrival uphill Rakovica.
axis of the jury and it follows that the race was 'a pleasure: the race "live" close to cyclists and' truly spectacular, including clocks, radio links, flagships, ambulances and police motorbikes (the legendary Ranko , totum in fact cycling federation, it is not quiet a moment!). E 'spectacular and fun, especially when cyclists climb a few hills just before the finish line. The chain of "I never thought of ..." has been enriched with another amazing ring, also because the car is driven by Senior Milenkovic, legend of cycling the first Yugoslav and Serbian then, father of Junior Milenkovic, discrete Today runner organizer of the Tour of Serbia. Milenkovic speak both Italian and both have proven kind and helpful.
Cycling in Italy, at least as an image, is a sport "popular" - perhaps the sport popular for excellence "- is a" sport for all ", a sport in which very often come from families with limited samples and normal : a sport that brings the party and lost the color in the countries with the caravan of the Tour. Cycling in Serbia and 'paradoxically a sport "elite", a sport for the rich. Why? Just a few words to a manufacturer of bicycles and explained why: "This bicycle Euro 5000, Serbia salary 300 Euro, 300 Euro is already good salary: few cyclists. " In Belgrade and Serbia in the cycling tradition is very weak cycle on the streets of the capital is a gamble, plus a track that is missing is an indoor facility. As a logical consequence, most of the approximately 150 riders licensed by the federation, not from Belgrade (which has about half the Serb population).
The arrival of the race is very close to the park Ciukaricki, where took place the day before another bike race, this time of cadets and cadet "Group B" in a circuit inside the park: I smile when I find myself the table of the leaders of cycling federation, in front of me with sixty young cyclists who lunch, chatting and smiling. I never thought of Easter as a pass, partly because instill in Belgrade is not yet as Easter, in agreement with the Orthodox calendar, Easter comes a week after the Catholic Church.
So the famous trip outside of Easter takes place in the faculty of architecture with stunning six hours, with four starters and two advanced. Just a pause in the lesson of advanced, Goran you tradurgli courage and asked me a few words: "pedantic", "draft", "break", "polentone. I became suspicious, so I ask where have found these words. He smiles and says, "to your blog." Incredulous, I ask him how he managed to find it. "Simple, I tried your email address, I entered your name and Facebook was your sentence, so I opened it." And how can the lessons in the university "the best" of life in Belgrade?
I'm really proud of my students - not only to Goran, who I'm sure he'll be reading this - especially for beginners and improve lesson in class. Everyone seems to follow with great interest with my ranting, even if the courses are neither mandatory nor curriculum. They do so mainly because they dream of going to perfect in Italy, enrolling in a course of study or in an exchange Basileus (Erasmus is the counterpart for the Balkans / Mediterranean), but they do so because they like our language, or simply because the course is free.
and pending arrivals another Easter - Sunday, this time the Orthodox - I take my leave, calling once again in the Abruzzo hold on and not give up.
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