Busy. Meanwhile…

I’m quite busy these days working on several different things, but i am confident that soon i’ll be able to post more stuff . After all, to make a post once in a while, you need a good cup of coffee and some spare time around dinner time, something that doesn’t happen to me in a while.

Meanwhile, it would be nice to redirect you all to a blog that i usually read, made by one of the most smart and amazing people to write on any medium.

It’s made by climber Dave MacLeod, and you can find it here:  http://www.davemacleod.blogspot.com/

Today, he posted an insight on why to write a blog.

“The biggest things I learned were that making a living from climbing would follow on from contributing to it. I started off writing this blog without really knowing what it was useful for. I had no plan, it was just fun to do. Now, it’s still fun to do but I have a clearer idea about what it can do. I write it both for you as a contribution of ideas or information, and for me as a record and crystallisation of thoughts and memories from whatever I’m doing.“

But the point is: even if you don’t climb, take a peek into the blog.The writing is charming, the insights are deep and rich, and basically it can be extremely interesting to you because the topics are really about challenge, dedication to a passion, mental and physical preparation for a difficult task, introspection, understanding of your personal strenght and limits, beauty of nature, exploration of both inside and outside one’s innerself, motivation, and so on. Somethimes my father likes to hear a translation of some posts.Also, the video documentaries he and his wife Claire produced are really amazing.

I don’t know Dave personally, but i had an email chat once and, for all of you possibly interested in going to Scotland, read what he wrote me when asked to suggest a nice itinerary in those lands.I think it’s ok to share this with other people that would like to go to Scotland:

“All of the west side of Scotland is the nicest part of the country. There are only
two essential rules – Make sure you travel through the hebridean islands
especially Harris and Skye, and to be flexible and follow the good weather.
The conditions change non-stop but if you move around you can always find
really good new places and some good weather too, sometimes only a few miles
away. The best itinerary is probably to travel up the west highlands to
Lochaber, then over onto Skye, then Harris, Lewis and ferry back to Ullapool
to explore the far north west. This will always be a very interesting trip.

Dave “

~ by Alessandro on January 27, 2009.