Of the many silly things I had already done in life, I missed the one of missing the plane. It was a ‘thrill I gave myself at the end of a trip that had been uneventful and for which I risked trouble getting home. Shiraz is not just a wine Shiraz was the last destination…
For a place to absolutely visit, I am referring to Auschwitz, but I consider it an example. In fact, any of the other Nazi death camps and beyond could work just as well. Countless peoples have been martyred and exterminated throughout history, and for example, the injustices that to this day the State of Israel…
Meetings in Iran are the other aspect that will always remain in my memory. Years earlier I had had an affair with an Iranian girl living in Bologna. Talking about her country and telling her about my trivial collection of magnets, she told me that they did not have them in Iran; this goes to…
Outside Tehran, the rest of the trip to Iran I did by moving around in the very comfortable buses. The cities are less chaotic and you get to breathe oxygen again. In August it is very hot, we are in desert territory, and I well remember a certain sense of suffocation when I got off…