BOBSY GAIA – A conversation on Lamma Island, the environment, and living a sustainable life

Sometimes, you can talk about a place only if you get to know the people who lived there, fell in love with it and work to make it better. A few years ago I found myself at Gaia House, a beautiful, bright-coloured Balinese-style house on top of a cliff on Lamma Island, overlooking a small beach. It belonged to Bobsy Gaia, a truly inspired man whom I had the pleasure to meet again later, in SoHo. Over a long conversation, we talked about living a sustainable lifestyle, based on diet and its impact on our beloved planet.

THE LIFE AHEAD (AND BEHIND) US - The return of Sophia Loren

A few weeks ago, the Italian newspapers proudly reported the victory at the Golden Globes of the song Io Sì by Diane Warren, sung by Laura Pausini, winner in the Best Original Song category. A well-deserved victory, to which we wish all the best in the next round (the most difficult) of the night of the Oscars. Then in May it will be the turn of Italy, with the David di Donatello, and on that occasion it is possible that other supporting elements of the film A life ahead may also receive some recognition.

THE TREASURE OF CADIZ – An adventure of the Black Corsair

(Story freely inspired by Emilio Salgari's Black Corsair)

The Black Corsair was a tall, slender man with an elegant bearing. His features were beautiful: a regular nose, two small lips, red like coral, a wide forehead furrowed with a slight wrinkle, which gave his face a melancholy air, and two eyes as black as charcoals with a perfect cut, vivid and animated, surrounded by long and lush lashes.

One day the Corsair arrived in Cadiz, a town located along the southwestern coast of Spain. For some time, in fact, it had been rumoured that a magical treasure was to be found right here…

FUMONE - Return to Ithaca

There are places that are part of us and, even if life leads us far away, we know that returning there we will find a piece of our soul. There are corners of the earth that smile at us more than others and that we only need to breathe for a minute to still feel ours. There are places where every morning is summer and we stay young forever. Fumone, the Olympus of Ciociaria, is my Ithaca.