Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Family Guy Meg Depression

TURKEY - TURKEY

Un sogno che è diventato realtà



La voglia di fare un viaggio in Turchia è sempre stata tanta, forse il fascino di questa terra divisa su due continenti, forse la storia millenaria che ha cullato civiltà e popoli diversi, città e luoghi che hanno il fascino del mistero e poi i racconti di chi ci era già stato mi ha fatto decidere che era arrivato il momento di andarci di persona.

Dopo aver parlato con alcuni amici del progetto e formato il gruppo, abbiamo cominciato con l’abbozzare l’itinerario, ci siamo accorti subito della vastità del territorio and the countless things to see and unfortunately, because we all had more or less available to the canonical three weeks, make choices coupon sites that would otherwise have deserved to be seen. The priorities we have set ourselves, however, over whether to also include off-road, was that we would try to avoid places too touristy and crowded and that there would be forced to wander in tortuous one that still should have been the most intriguing travel destination , Dogubayazit on the border with Armenia and at the foot of Mount Ararat, the highest point east that we touched. (N39 ° 31'237''E44 ° 07'562'')

The point chosen for the rearrangement was Pamukkale. Li we have come in dribs and drabs, some by land, crossing the Balkan peninsula, passing by those who come straight from Italy and Greece in Izmir.

Personally, I embarked in Ancona to Igoumenitsa and after passing through customs in Greece I did Ipsala from there I got to where I crossed the Dardanelles Gelibolu reaching Cannakle then a ride to Pamukkale!


These crews


Land Rover Defender 90
I (Pippo) and Sonia

Land Rover Defender 90
Alessandro

Land Rover Defender 110
Dario and Lella

Land Rover Defender 90
Daniel and Maureen

Nissan Patrol GR
Sabina Carlo and Umberto

Toyota HDJ 80
Antonello and Ilaria



These stages of the journey, my journey
Melegnano - Ancona - Igoumenitsa (Greece) Igoumenitsa
- Ipsala
Ipsala - Cannakle (Daranelli) - Izmir - Pamukkale Pamukkale
- Beysheir
Beysehir - Goreme (Cappadocia) 2 days
Goreme - Nemrut Dagi (tomb of Antiochus)
Nemrut Dagi - Kurdistan -
Van Van - Dogubayazit
Dogubayazit - Erzerum - Sumela
Sumela - Trabzon -
Amasya Amasya -
Safranbolu Safranbolu - 3 days
Istanbul Istanbul - Sofia (Bulgaria) - Pirot (Serbia)
Pirot - Belgrade - Zagreb (Croatia) Zagreb
- Melegnano














I will not elaborate in the report stage for stage but I will focus on places that aroused in me the most intense emotions.

Pamukkale (cotton castle), a fairy-tale landscape with a dazzling white petrified castles. The waters of hot springs, laden with calcareous salt, pouring on the edges of the plateau, have created this fantastic formation of stalactites, cataracts and basins.
and 'a fairytale what comes up in the eyes of those who go to Goreme and its Fairy Chimneys. A maze of towers, crevasses, canyons, pinnacles and rock castles. the corrugation of the earth's surface in the middle of a plateau 1,000 meters above sea level in central Anatolia, is the result of patient work (lasting a few million years) of Mother Nature, two accomplices volcanoes dormant for some time. Fantastic !!!!!!
on Nemrut Dagi, 2,150 meters high, which is considered the highest mountain in the north of Mesopotamia, there is the gigantic funerary sanctuary erected in the first century. BC by King Antiochus I of Commagene. Here stands the man-made mound, flanked by terraces where pose the colossal statues of Apollo, Zeus, Hercules, Antioch and others. From down here in the mountains of Kurdistan and crossing the Euphrates we headed to Van
Dogubayazit (from dog-biscuit, dog biscuits) to get there after a long and downs that bisects the northern Anatolia, the magic that breathes and is unique due to the fact that it may be passed here the ancient Silk Road, or because it sits at the foot of the legendary Mount Ararat, but in the evening we made camp near the campsite where Murat has stopped even before the Italian expedition of Overland me excited!!

And Istanbul (Constantinople) nothing to do with the rest of the country! A megalopolis of 12 million inhabitants and a half, whole neighborhoods arise within a few months, traffic is chaotic but the surface light rail connecting all the most interesting city. Here we spent 3 days to see everything that was easy to see. From the bridge over the Bosphorus to the mosque of Aya Sofia Mosque Blu, il Palazzo di Topkapi, la piazza Sultanahmet, i sui Gran Bazar, il Corno d’Oro. Da li a poco avremmo dovuto riprendere la strada di casa, peccato!


In conclusione posso dire che la Turchia mi ha affascinato, attraversarla praticamente tutta da ovest ad est e viceversa mi ha permesso di scoprirne i fantastici paesaggi. Dall’altopiano Anatolico, alle spettacolari le montagne del Kurdistan, i suoi villaggi con gli orti vicino alle case e l’accoglienza delle persone. Insomma una terra ed un popolo fantastico. Va precisato che chi si avvicina ad un viaggio del genere deve avere ben chiaro che i chilometri da fare sono molti, ma lo spettacolo durante i lunghi trasferimenti appaga the eye and spirit.
Thanks to the fantastic traveling companions spent three weeks fairytale. all the photos from the trip you can see in the "photo albums"















"Allahismarladik" I entrust to God, so that greets the traveler leaves.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Congratulation Happy Birthday

Law Abiding Citizen-PRIVATE JUSTICE



There are movies worse than just bad movies.
usually put those things in this prestigious category foul calls unnecessary film: I pay the ticket, I enter the room, I see it, I say "cute ...", I sit down to take a Coca Cola, I remember what he said in the Pimpa I read a book five years but not what happened 10 minutes before the screen.
Alzheimer? It could also be.
Yet there is something that is even lower than the useless.
are films with the final throw in the toilet.
I have a good idea for a feature film, I try not to find a producer (and some would no doubt come to me because of the amount of filth produced in America), seeking a director and a cast but as I finish writing the script I get struck by lightning diarrhea, so I write the final 10 pages in three rows thick on a thick piece of toilet paper. Virtually
: there are Jamie Foxx with his hanging drawn with a ruler and the horns and Gerard Butler that is, as usual, the Stallion de noartri transparencies or hard-eyed as needed and a little 'crooked-mouth grin-smile that never hurts.
Gerardo Buttero kill his wife and child and he does not take it so well because justice is disgusting and the Fox is a lawyer who can the plea agreement to one of the two killers. This
Kurt Wimmer (writer and director of such masterpieces as Equilibrium and Ultraviolet) looks like a genius scopiazzatura without citation of sources, so put down yet another story of revenge and personal view that even the advertising stravista Findus. But Kurt
for an hour and a half knows how to be loving, and spares no one even seems to feel a certain sadism and killing people who actually misses a cock in business and maybe also knows acting contrary to his wife and daughter Foxx, veterans from "The tree blue, happy place, the tree is blue instead of friends."
Then the drama.
The writer-producer (if there was was a real kick in the ass some producer would give him at least) is attacked by the mysterious intestinal virus.
"something will happen to the Bible," is the last sentence in the script written by a man still sane.
And you expect something really ever seen something special.
Sure, there were already some signs: the mayor acts like a madman making the curfew to the entire city because they are dead six attorneys and the family of Ray Charles White seems that the mill but otherwise everything flows almost to perfection.
Last 10 minutes: for the last 600 seconds Kurt makes good on paper something that is nothing short of obscene.
I wish I could write what happens but for the little taste I have left I will not.
trust that someone like me has seen anything really on a cinema screen forget it as soon as possible and replace it with the end-all, and I say that everyone would have liked.
So you still have not seen such carnage do something.
Go see "private justice" and an hour and 35 left the room and imagine your perfect end: do not worry no one is sure to be scrawled on toilet paper by Kurt Wimmer.
He and his cello.
an idea for where I put them in a scene after the credits I have. What
I want my private justice.

DIRECTOR: F. Gary Gray
GENRE: Triller
YEAR: 2010
RATING: 4