<Hey Luisa, follow your heart>

What advice would you give to your teenage self?

<<A message in the bottle, cradled by the waves, I sent you in my previous life didn’t you see? No? You were distracted from your thoughts on what to do to fulfill yourself in life. It was enough to silence your mind, for a while, and your heart would have connected with mine… The beats in unison would show you what I’m seeing now and so, in my actual life, I wouldn’t fight the insecurities of a teenager again.

The message? It’s: ” follow your heart”.

You know, what it means. You have a lot of imagination, ability to achieve, but your insecurity confuses you. Stop to rationality. Don’t listen to others too, the life is yours, built it your way, and don’t stop!

Now, I’ll wait that, swimming in the sea of life, you’ll take that message, making your journey more peaceful.

< If our ages are dimensional lines that travel in parallel, in a single life, tomorrow, when I wake up, I’ll feel me…different, maybe or maybe not.

On the other hand, if I got that bottle, at my age, means it was for me, nothing to change.>

But you, Luisa, follow your heart anyway.😘>>

With budget, great achievement.

Write about your approach to budgeting.

Every month, I and Fiore remove from the budget what we know we have to spend, including shopping at the supermarket, because we have an abitudinary eating, and we assess the situation.

Travelling with motorhome, getting gas, we know that, in this period, in Portugal with € 50,00 we go about 300 km. Then, it’s always possible the unexpected, like in the past november, in Villafranca del Penedes ( Cataluña), where our service battery died😔… fortunately Spain is convenient for repairs and others works on means, and by asking a friend we went in Granada to put a new one.

When it goes without problems, sometimes we gift us a lunch or dinner typical of the place where we are; two Sunday ago, we went with Antonio, our Portuguese friend, to eat “enguia” ( eel), at the santo André lagoon festival🪱.

After all, we’re lucky to know how to manage our budget, so we can live life our way.😉

A day in equilibrium

Describe your most ideal day from beginning to end.

Wake up at 8.30am, I make my energetic exercise and very slowly the breakfast starts: some fruit, oat, coffee, butter, marmalade…often I change the breakfast menu.

When I’m ready, I go out, walking along the Adda river, when we’re in Trezzo d’Adda or simply in a green hill like now; the best is -before walking- make a fast fitness training with my “personal”Fiore.

For the rest of the day, the ideal for me is, in the early hours of the afternoon create my jewels, one per day is sufficient…two better😄 and then, music, a cup of tea and writing.

In the evening, if I were still in Milan, I would like to go out, to see people, lights, shops, to distract me from my thoughts.

In the night, a good dinner, a cup of wine🍷🍷, with my husband listening blues and jazz Portuguese radio broadcast and the top would be a movie, one of those, that give a good mood, but for this, I think I have to wait to return to Italy, unfortunately I have few GB for internet.

This, for me it means having a day in equilibrium between job, activities, relax…a shame that is not always like this, but I’m working on it.😉.

Pizza😋

What’s your favorite thing to cook?

I made this pizza just a week ago. Like a “pugliese” with onions.

Recipe: wheat flour + salt + fresh brewer’s yeast + mozzarella + tomato sauce+ onions + my secret ingredients which I say just for you😃… Ginger and coriander.

And to cook it 🤔, in motorhome I don’t have oven, so I used a pan with lid, naturally with over low heat.👩‍🍳

Curó refuge

Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting.

Close my new home, in Valbondione, Alta Val Seriana, Bergamo,Lombardia, there are more than one refuge…Curó refuge is the next I want to go and visit.

Walking, in three hours is reachable, with a medium difficulty path.

Curó refuge is at 1915 m above the sea level and it is surrounded in the beautiful nature of the natural park of Orobie bergamasche.

Grisú

What is your favorite animal?

When an animal arrives in my life, is a special day.

Grisú 😺 is our actual close friend on all fours.

Cat landscape, acrylics on paper, 2019 Lou

It said that cats are magic. They have more lives, seven…if I remember correctly and every now and then appear and then disappear…thank you Grisú for choosing us.👩‍❤️‍👨

Cosmic cat egg, acrylics on paper, dittic, 2019, Lou

<After the death of my dog, Angelo, came at my home a cat from the wood. With hair a bit grey, we called it, Grisú.

One day, Grisú was hit by a car and our vet managed to save it…unfortunately it remained blind!

But Grisú is a very strong cat, it loves the life. One time, it loved spending the whole night in the woods, meeting with other cats; after the accident choosen to stay with us, at home and in the motorhome, reinvented a life.

Now, Grisú has developed it’s other senses, has a good new life, as a globetrotter, travels with me and Fiore.we’re a nice trio😺.>

On the road…the beginning

Ripensa al tuo viaggio più memorabile.

It was 2013 and a new member of the team, would be put to the test embarking on a trip, towards the discovery of one’s own unknown world.

Fiore was his name and he was in command of the Fariña Shuttle that have been explorers of the human soul for centuries.

Direction? Santiago de Compostela, with an unconventional means: a land rover.

Why not on foot? He underwent surgery on his hips…can’t walk for too far.

From Sogno, Lecco lake, Italy to Santiago was a memorable trip.

It was special trip,the first together. I was already used to traveling without hotel reservation, many times I was gone on adventure, more times I had encountered difficulties but overcome along the way. Fiore was his first experience and, I know, it’s all possible, also block the trip and break our relationship😮.

But, no, no, everything was fine.

40 days on the road, sleeping in the car and in camping with a tent. “Angelo” our cute dog was with us always attentive to show us the direction.

We are gone in many places, Impression on me, Pamplona on San Fermin’s day, Bilbao with the escalators in the streets and then Santiago, wow with really many people, all together sharing the same dream.

…the Road trip, then, went ahead, but is not so important. That it is important was it helped us to know ourselves more deeply, sharing this experience, giving the beginning of the first of a series of road trip.

Traveling on the road, is travelling with the soul, it increases the ability to observe,and making you dive into other realities, your small world is nothing as compared to the entire human universe. it makes us open our heart.❤️