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Prague is a city with a strange mix of German and Slavic heritage, and with Hebrew heritage in the mix as well. It’s story has moments where these components collide. How to not remember Hussite period? And what happened in the last 100 years: part of the Austrian Empire, after the WWI as an independent country where German element was banned, then Nazi occupation where Slavic element was banned, followed by Soviet occupation when German element was obliterated, and after the fall of Berlin Wall the new German occupation thru economy. Ziska, from a hill, watch with his only eye the country.
















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Prague 2018: Walk around [part01]

During the winter, with rain and cold, people think about their next vacation in a warmer season. In the meantime here there is the report of my last vacation, the first real trip after the money drop due to my house buying.

Prague is a beautiful city in the middle of Europe, with a Slavic and German feel. Usually people go to Prague for a short trip, a weekend based on romantic views, beer and sex. We stayed for a week, and we based our trip on culture and historical views, instead. Prague is so perfect that it seems a fake city. There is a Disneyland feel that emerges from the tourist setting of the all the city centre: you can’t find real shops but only tourist ones, and this for miles and miles. Its soul is corrupted by tourist traps. Lots of historical things to see but you can find even fake historical things. Three vax museums at short distance are a sign of what I’m saying. However we had great moments and there are some posts about them. Here the first with an overview.








































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Happy New Year!

Another year! Toward the future, looking back to the past, blogging about miniatures and life.

The 2018 was the year where I tried to put posts about what I did during 2016, 2017 and 2018. We have now reached only almost a 6 months late. In a world based on instant media it is a little weird but this place is my personal journal and I’m happy with it. Posts are a fun thing to do, but it is all time that I subtract to rules writing and gaming. So I will continue with a schedule of just a couple of posts every month, with scarce text, because texts means time to write them.

My programmes for the new year is to publish in English my sequel for Palaeo Diet and to work on FeG II. In April I hope that my new adventure for Katakumbas roleplay will be out. I hope to have fun. Enjoy 2019!

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San Giovanni underground

Rome lacks of undergrounds. We waited for this stop too many years. At the last! San Giovanni underground stop is now the best station in Rome. There is a small museum on the walls with materials recuperated during the diggings. Moreover on the walls are signed the soil levels of the area. You can go from actual era to primitive times, a voyage in history inside the trip to your destination. All roads lead to Rome.





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Romics – april 2018

Two times every year, the comic fair of Rome. I can’t ideate new descriptions for it. It is always more huge, but the available money to people is always less and so this was the Roman fair with less profits for vendors. However here I helped the economy to rise. I feel as a patriot.




A portrait in manga style for me and my friend Paolo.

If female cosplayers were not sexy enough, the new sensation for comic fairs is body art. Young women in pants and paints. Oh boy…



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Spring in 2018

We are in autumn but here I’m writing about spring? I’m late with the posts but slowly I’m make up for lost time.

This is the artificial lake built for the world exhibition of 1942 at the South of Rome. It has almond trees that as in Japan indicate the beginning of spring. We have only to wait almost 6 months to watch again this spectacle.



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Snow

Snow in Rome is always an event. And it is fun to remember this at the end of Summer. It was the 26th of February. I went to work and I found the gates closed down. At 7.30 in the morning. Under snowfall. After a couple of hours someone brought the keys. Only a few were with me but however people presented to our counters. Some people is crazy.


Here some photos of my city like under an enchantment.





Winter is coming.

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Sgurgola

My roots are from this little village at South of Rome, along the way to Magna Graecia. Not a Latin ground but the land of Hernici people.

I was born in Rome and this is only the place where I spent a couple of weeks every year as holidays during my childhood.

This is not more my place, my ground, my house. I feel a little sad about it.

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