Just a List - part III

1. Le Chateau - Lagos, Nigeria
2. Le Palais Royal - Lagos, Nigeria
3. Youth Hostel Earls Court - London, UK
   
4. Holiday Inn Express - Cambridge, USA
5. Marriot - Beverly, USA
6. Pan American - New York, USA
7. Hyatt - Owing Mills, USA
8. Silken Puerta de Madrid - Madrid, Spain
9. Rafael - Madrid, Spain
10. Eurostars International Palace - Rome, Italy
11. Park Inn - Telford, UK
12. Haughton Hall - Shifnal, UK
13. Premier Inn - Nottingham, UK
14. Mon-Repos - Geneve, Switzerland
15. Hotel Central - Geneve, Switzerland
16. Park House Hotel - Shifnal, UK
17. Hyatt - Dulles - Washington DC, USA
    
18. Gaylord National Conference Center - Washington DC, USA
19. Hotel Hilton - Newcastle, UK
20. Hyatt Madeleine - Paris, France
21. Hotel Merrion - Dublin, Ireland
22. Halcyon Cove - Antigua
23. Stone Manor - Worchestershire, UK
24. Days Inn - Telford, UK
25. Grand Hotel Adriatico - Florence, Italy
26. Hotel Boscolo Bellini - Venice, Italy
27. Hotel Hilton Rome Airport - Fiumicino, Italy
    
28. Hotel Cardoso - Maputo, Mozambique
29. QHotel Telford Golf Club&Spa - Telford, UK
    

Just a list of some of the Hotels where I have been in the last year ... :)

Just a List - Part II - USA TV

1. A reality of small people (in a big world)
2. A reality of a tatoo shop
3. A reality of chimps
4. A reality of a psychologist for dogs
5. A reality of a veterinary clinic
6. A reality of a family with 8 kids
7. A reality of a family with 5 kids
8. A reality of the Miami's Animal Police
9. A reality of people in Jail
10. A reality of a Choppers Factory
11. A reality of the Anti-Drugs special police
12. A reality of (normal) Police
13. A reality of a Plastic Surgery Hospital in Miami
14. A reality of extreme make over of people
15. A reality of extreme make overof houses
16. A reality of people that flip houses
17. A reality of people that exchange houses
18. A reality of people that open restaurants
19. A reality of mothers that escape for a week and try to realize their dreams
20. A reality about tunning cars
21. A reality of a Casino in Las Vegas
22. A reality of dirty jobs
23. And one great fiction and entertainment channel called CNN

Just a list - part I

1. The Blues
2. The Jazz and all its derivations
3. Jimmy Hendrix
4. Ben Harper
5. The Samuel Adams
6. The colours of Maine in Autumn
7. Quentin Tarantino
8. Skating in Central Park
9. Malcom X
10. Muhamed Ali
11. Star Wars
12. The view of the Manhattan Island in the night from New Jersey
13. The actual Dollar/Sterling exchange rate ;)
14. Georgetown in D.C.
15. Barack Obama (Yes We Can!)
16. Francis Ford Coppola
17. The Ford Mustang 1973 Convertible
18. Jhon Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin (See number 1.. this is a list itself)
19. The Batman original TV serie (The one with soft ears)
20. Robert Pirsig
21. Jack Kerouac
22. Michael Moore
23. Charles Bukowski
24. The Dream of Dr. Martin Luther King

This is the (first) non ordered list of things I like about U.S.A.

Yet another Comming soon .. FREE TIBET

My experience last Sunday at Washington DC at the protest for a FREE TIBET in front of the Chinese Embassy

Myth about the development World

Today I just want suggest you to watch this presentation of Hans Rosling: I thing is great. Enjoy it!:

This is not a Simulation!

I know there is a post below promising a coming soon that never come about London, but the fact is that I'm now in Boston (please don't ask what I'm doing here now .. that is for another entry). Anyway I was ready to write about my first visit to the United State of America, in this week I had fun and I walked all around the city trying to catch it essence, but when I felt inspired to write ...BEE! BEE! BEE! the fire alarm of my hotel room started. I though well this guys are always doing simulations, but then I heard very clearly the fatal sentence "THIS IS NOT A SIMULATION THIS IS NOT A SIMULATION" eh? I'm in the last floor guys! I just have time to take my trousers and obviously my pocket camera! I ran downstairs and the alarm was always playing more loud BEE BEE BEE THIS BUILDING IS UNDER EMERGENCY ... oh my God, oh our God! each floor I was looking if it was warm or if I can see flames. Finally I arrived downstairs, some people where smoking outside and chatting like nothing was happened (but that was not the reason of the alarm), then I went to the lobby and finally I heard what I want to hear: "We are sorry False alarm Sir". False Alarm? I nearly had a heart attach! At that moment all the guests started to arrive and of course our guys the Fire Fighters as well .. man they look like the ones on TV, I though :) So I did the photo!

Who knows me will say: "Raff this things always happen to you" and what can I say? is true, I took seat and start to think:"Raff are you stupid?, why you took the camera in a situation like this?" then I started to look around to all the other guys, they where in pajamas but with their laptops switched on man, their laptops switched on ;)

ONE LOVE! Bob Marley (Death) Anniversary, 11 May 1981

If just few years ago when I was a rasta kid in Bari (south Italy) someone have told me that I would celebrate a Bob Marley aniversary in a Island in West Africa dancing live reggae music on the sand under the moon I would say: stop dreaming my friend. Well sometimes dreams come true and thanks to my friend Bami, who invited me, this time the dream really happened. I arrived to Tarkwa Bay at 6:00pm and we went to the village to meet some friends. I have been many times in Tarkwa but that was my first day in the village. I felt like if I was in a movie or in a dream, walking around with my rasta friends, Bob's music everywhere and the warm people of the village that made me feel like at home. The party was great and I'll talk about it later, but the best part of that night was the hospitality I received in Mama's Elizabeth House. She saw me and she told me: "you cannot go the party without dinner". She invite me to her house where I met his husband and the rest of her lovely family. She cooked me a fantastic pasta and we spent a couple of hours chatting all together with only illumination of the light of the moon (in Tarkwa there is no public electricity) and the soundtrack of the sea. Then we went to the beach the band was there playing, we danced and enjoined all the night. We came back walking and talking about how Bob's world wide influence, about how the world would be different if he would be still alive, and comparing his influence with Fela's experience. The next morning sweet Mama Elizabeth prepared a wonderful breakfeast, we talked about the party and how I enjoyed it. It was very difficult to take the boat that brought me back to the city and leave all that peaceful atmosphere behind me. Today I'm writing from my house in London, I can close my eyes and I can still feel the breeze of the Benin Gulf, the music, the friendship and the warm of the house of the family that treat me just like another son. One Love!