The tale / part 1 - The Tarots
So dear Reader..
We then got to the end of this adventure. Before to say you goodbye, I want to run through all this trip since the beginning, telling all the things I couldn’t so far because of the shortage of time.
Mates that had part in it will have their say (hopefully), and you, reader, you are welcome to write me something to post, or to add it in the comments. At the end of the day, we experienced this trip together.
I kick it off introducing to you this trip’s tarots. Characters that had a kind of shamanist part in this tale.
First of all, the Insurer, Mr. Virgilio Virgili (it’s not a joke)
He said: you are always in time to change your mind.
Second, Elia the Mechanic.
He said: by riding this Vespa, you can go the end of the world.
The third one is Marco, the Barman of La tazza d’oro in Pisa. Literally translating from Italian, I would call that bar a Soul’s place for me. In the picture is the one on white shirt.
He said: these are things giving taste to this life!
About the fourth one I don’t have a picture, but I want to mention her as well. She is the elder Shopkeeper round the corner of my former place, in the beloved Piazza Guerrazzi in Pisa. She was the one that, with her Tuscan recipes, started the Soups season in my home. For months we went on preparing strange soups, brewing hours and then lasting ages in this kind of huge pans. When I told her about my trip, she didn’t lack to suggest me some warm drinks to have along the way.
She said: Bear in your mind! Wool t-shirt and hot milk with honey!
Finally, Ciccio e Bresci, the Antagonists. If you are Italian you already understood they are good friends of mine who two years ago had a trip in Vespa too. More ambitious than me (they headed to Lisbon from Pisa), they hadn’t been as lucky, forced to stop at the foot of Pyrenees, on the way to Roncesvalles. They pioneered what we did and, even if we like to tease each other, our trips are strictly related.
Bresci said: Best trips are always in offseason. You really chose a good period to travel!
Ciccio said: Curi, you’d better wait for the next summer
