So, the time to go back home has arrived… It’s incredible: almost one year has passed since January 14, the day when my American adventure began. It has been a year full of experiences which made me grow a lot. But there will be time for a thorough assessment of this period: such exercises must not be carried out on the spur of the moment. Now I will enjoy some days of holiday with my family. After all, I will…
As you have seen in the last post in the Reserach section, in the past days I went to Washington, DC, where I dedicated some time to sightseeing in addition to the events that I attended. Indeed, apart from the very quick passage that I made last July in occasion of the International Energy Workshop in College Park, I had already been there about ten years ago when I took an on-the-road trip in the South-Eastern states with my friends…
As you surely (!) remember, last March I had written a post – actually two, one in the News section and one in the Life section – about the launch of the Enel Innovation Hub right in my open space here in Berkeley. For those who do not know it, Enel is the main Italian player in the electricity sector. The purpose of this center, I remind, is to work as an incubator and to promote innovative startups. As you…
As I had anticipated in my Halloween post, I was curious to see how the Thanksgiving Day would turn out to be here in its “homeland”. In particular, I hoped that I could take part in a gathering with the Italian community, but naturally any event would be fine. First of all, it must be said that this is one of the most important American holidays, probably more “felt” than Christmas itself, being the real festivity when families gather together…
Last April 15, after the typical Saturday’s chores, I decided to pop over to Oakland. It was quite late to go to San Francisco, in fact, but I had some hours that had to be used. So I had decided to give a look at the main city of the East Bay. Indeed, in general Oakland does not have a great reputation, but I was told that the situation has improved a lot over the past years, and my National…
This is one picture from the Halloween party that I attended on October 31: Does it effectively give the sense of nothing? Yes, indeed it was all quite disappointing. I must specify that I was not too interested in Halloween, honestly, but I was curious to see how it would be celebrated here in the States, and I expected to write a nice post on the topic. Well, in the end I do not have much to tell. By the…
Last Sunday my agenda reported a dinner in San Francisco, so I thought that it could be nice to go there in advance and spend some time around the City in order to give a look at some places that I had not seen yet. Indeed I left a bit late (as always), so I could not have a huge tour. However, I was very satisfied, eventually: I managed to see a couple of places that could not be missing…
Finally I managed to attend a Coldplay concert! I say “finally” because the story is not short 🙂 In 2016 I was really disappointed when I discovered that the “A Head Full of Dreams” world tour would not come to Italy. Therefore I had decided – quite madly, to some extent – to buy two tickets for the concert to be held in Barcelona. However, in the following months I had sold the tickets, because it was clearly a crazy…
Italian afternoon yesterday in Alameda! This town, not too far from Berkeley – which by the way gives the name to the county comprising the East Bay communities (including Berkeley) – hosted in fact the second edition of the Italian Street Food Fest. The “gnocco fritto” was the protagonist of the day. The “gnocco fritto” is a typical product of the Emilia-Romagna region and is essentially a fried batter (fritto means fried in Italian) which is served with prosciutto, ham,…
The title of this post will probably remind my most attentive readers of one older post, titled “Go Dubs!“. It is the post that I wrote in February when I went to watch the Golden State Warriors, the NBA team of the Bay. Indeed we are not so far from that: after the NBA, I necessarily had to attend an American football match! I am neither an expert nor passionate about this sport, but I did want to take part…