Cooked Ragù Napoletano for 8 people, first time, helped by the recipies of Salvio and Mamma.

Outcome: Delicious!

The vacation in Mallorca was partially ruined by sickness, a flu that caught Wanda and Guni first after 4 days, then Diego and myself on the last day and once back home. We’re OK now, Guni and the kids are fine already since a while, for me this thing lasted ten days more or less. Still I enjoyed the first 4 days there when we were in complete family formation, and the second part the time alone with Diego has been a time full of love and memories to keep.

Schade! But I feel strong and blessed to have such a beautiful family, wonderful kids getting more beautiful every day. And talking to them, spending time with them gets nicer all the time.

Gli anni della Kita sono alle spalle, di fronte a voi inizia un cammino nuovo, diverso. Sono un po’ triste nel ricordare gli anni dell’asilo che avete vissuto e goduto, sono emozionato nel pensarvi all’entrata della Scuola.

Vi auguro tutta la felicità che si può avere. Il mio cuore è tutto vostro, sono con voi Wanda e Diego, ora e per sempre.

Hanno imparato a nuotare in questi giorni, i miei due meravigliosi figli.

Ho detto a Diego che sono momenti importanti nella vita, che forse li dimenticherà, ma ci sono anche io a ricordare i loro primi traguardi.

Ed un giorno se leggerà queste pagine ricorderà o saprà che è in questi giorni che ha imparato a nuotare. E che penso a loro due sempre.

SSC Napoli shines!

Released from the ballasts of aged and overrated players like Insigne and Koulibali (Mertens excluded, he was really a top one), Napoli now shines a bright light made of new and young talents who are showing an enjoyable game with class and fair-play.

I ❤️ Kvaratskhelia. E pur a Kim.

(E pur a Simeone).

Exercising to perform on piano Carla Etude / Tonight … I am far from the real thing, I will never be there, but I never imagined I could have come that close to that in a way that makes sense and makes me enjoy playing it.

Questo dolce topolino custodisce il primo dentino caduto ieri a Diego. E Diego, con emozione e gioia, ha atteso stanotte la ZahnFee che puntualmente è passata a lasciargli una lettera ed un regalo, che hanno fatto tanto felice il nostro splendido bambino.

Recently: been socializing at the Kita Sommerfest and going out for dinner with L. downtown Herrenberg!

Celebrating the first year Anniversary of our life in Herrenberg.
It’s been an intense year full of things, and I am happy of the choice we made to move here.
It was the right time to leave Berlin and to start the new life Baden-Württemberg’s chapter. This was the first Region of Germany that I met, the first impression I had of this Country, and I had always hoped to live here sooner or later. And here I am now, here we are now. And I believe we are enjoying it (with Spring and now Summer ahead! the best time of the year!)

13 to 23 June 2022. Istria, Croatia. Rovigno exactly.

We hadn’t had a vacation for a long time, due to covid and our relocation to Herrenberg last summer. So we were really looking forward to spend days off with the entire family, which we did with thus holiday in Croatia. Finally the see and Mediterranean for the kids.

Stayed @ the Polari camping in Rovigno, a huge place on the coast. We had a Mobile home, and following kids desires we spent almost every day by the swimming pools and went to the beach just a couple of times. Weather was very good, very warm…hot actually. We visited the old city of Rovigno and found a good real neapolitan pizzeria there, “Zita”.

We reached Croatia by car, one of the advantages of living south Germany! On the way to Rovigno we stopped for one night in Hallein in Austria, while on the way back the overnight stop was in Sankt Michel in Lungau (Landhaus Lungau). Both beautiful places.

We have all enjoyed these couple of weeks of vacations.

We came back home this weekend, and spent a nice Saturday evening bbq with friends in Mönchberg… and in time to join the Zwiebelkuchenfest in Kuppingen!

Niko visited us in Herrenberg during a longer Bank Holiday weekend. We spent time together in the town, on the mountain tower, at home, and dining out the 2 of us like the old times in Berlin.

Lisi and her new born baby girl followed up after Niko and stayed at our place for a couple of days. So it was a good time with my family and part of the Kremer’s one.

After more than 5 years, today I returned to sit in a Company office at my location (which is Böblingen since we moved to Herrenberg). They closed the office in Berlin back in 2017, then Corona pandemic kept the offices closed in Germany. And so today I have lived this good feeling again.

Missione Magliana happened 20 years ago, in 2002, and initiated the story of myself-and-my-place-in-Rome which has known many phases, participants and protagonists over the years.
With Missione Magliana II this chapter of my life comes to a end in 2022.
My thoughts and gratitude go forever to those times, to the place I lived, owned, managed during these 20 years; and to the people who have crossed my life in and around the apartment in Rome, who have helped me in settling there and making that place and my life of those years warm, important, intensive, and more.
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While in Rome those 4 days I had the chance to meet some of the places, food, and people that I miss. I stayed at Corrado & Silvia’s place, and spent very good time with them, evenings at home or walking through Piazza Navona, Piazza Farnese and Campo de Fiori… eating Pizza Bianca with Mortadella. I saw Gianfranco and Marco one evening in Trastevere, sitting in front of a wonderful Amatriciana. And I met my roman relatives, Melina, Luca, Maria, Antonella & co..

Almost 2 weeks of quarantine/isolation for my family after a couple of positive Covid tests for Guni and Wanda. Most important thing is that they experienced almost no symptoms.
Peter and his family where here for a visit when it happened, and they isolated from us in another part of the house.
Strange situation, but we managed it.
I wonder about the reliability and the sense of these tests at the current stage of the pandemic.

Pages recently added to the Back in Time section of this website.

Bio Chapters : Lucio Dalla, Londra

Chronicles : 90’s, 80’s, 70’s

There is a lot happening, inside my life and outside. Weeks move fast. Work is a roller coaster. Family is filling and warming the days. And I did not find time and things to say lately. But signing the Covid test certificate of the kids for their kindergarten, I realised it is the 4th of March today. 4 Marzo.

Happy Birthday Lucio Dalla. My first unforgettable idol.

You can’t beat Spidey

Early 90’s. Listening Behaviour.

A most inspirational and rewarding music experiences.

About one year ago I moved this website under the WordPress.org platform. Gradually moving what can be moved of the legacy pages is also an opportunity to revisit and refresh some of them.
The Back in Time page contains the archive of this Diary’s posts since Lapelazzuli.com foundation in 2002, plus the chronicles and thing I remember of the previous years until back to 1974 when I was born. And I am recently reviewing those pages adding a summary of the decades 70’s, 80’s, 90’s.
If you’re wondering who is ever interested in this: I am. It helps me in remembering the beautiful journey of these years. It feels good to remind what I do not want to forget. We normally live our present and with our minds focused on today, maybe on tomorrow and the future, and on few days back. I try to preserve here my personal memories of a life I love.

I write this website in English. Rarely, especially when I am particularly lazy, I also use my mother tongue, Italian, as it comes more fluid to me, I have a richer vocabulary. And with today’s tools none who is really interested in the content would find it hard to have it quickly translated.

Lately I am listening to History lessons of Prof. Alessandro Barbero on YouTube. I like history and I find these lessons interesting and very enjoyably presented. World Wars, Medieval life, Crusades, Ottoman Empire, Falkland, Carlo Magno, The Italian independence wars, The American civil war etc.

Abbiamo vissuto il 2021 a Berlino ed Herrenberg. Estattamente i primi 6 mesi nella Capitale, da Gennaio a fine Giugno; poi a partire da Luglio ad Herrenberg.
I primi sei mesi sembrano gia’ cosi’ lontani, a volte mi fermo a ripensare alle strade di Mitte e Prenzlauerberg ed alle persone ed i posti vissuti. E quando lo faccio, ovviamente, sento una sensazione mista tra gioia e amore … e mi spunta un sorriso.
Berlino mi ha accolto in una fase particolare della mia vita e mi ha regalato tanto, emozioni, visione, nuove energie ed esperienze colorate, calde e belle che, dopo dieci anni, fanno parte di me e dei miei ricordi. Penso ai caffe’, ai ristoranti e le pizzerie, alle sere fuori con Nico, ai Karaoke, a Masataka, alle chiacchierate con Matthias al Rosengarten, alla scuola di Tedesco di Kastanienalle, a Chaitan, ai marciapiedi larghissimi, alla musica di Max Raabe, alle colazioni fuori con Guni nel weekend, ai palazzi di Metzer Strasse ed al Café Hilde, alla Wasswerturm ed a Kollwitzkiez, alla U-Bahn, ai primi anni di Diego e Wanda, a Zionskirchplatz ed alla mia vita di quartiere, alle mie lunghissime passeggiate, alle nostre belle case dove abbiamo abitato, ed a tanto altro.
Da luglio siamo passati ad un nuovo scenario, ad Herrenberg e dintorni, che ho cominciato e che continiuero’ a raccontare qui.

Stepping into 2022 with an updated and refreshed New Timeline!

Wishing everyone a Happy 2022!

We are living a cozy Christmas period in Herrenberg with our family; Peter, Anne and their children are here, and Marie Luise and Christoph too. Our kids are happy and overwhelmed with joy and surprises (they saw Santa leaving our house after dropping the presents!). Guni cooked a delicious parmigiana di melanzane.

I enjoy singing and playing Paolo Conte’ songs lately.

It’s a beautiful time.