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Other ways to bridge the world

By ChiaraInThePond. Friday, 22. February 2008, 09:51:08

There are not expensive way to travel and still bridging the world...
Go to the nearest supermarket and buy all the ingredients for a superb italian pasta, buy the best wine.
Before starting cooking open the bottle of wine and pure (bad speeling I know!) some in your finest wine glass. Close your eyes, smell the wine and imagine green and yellow hills, the sea as background together with the blue sky, no clouds, warm but not temperature and then imagine to be sitted sipping the wine you have in front of you.
Ok, you are ready for cooking and tasting a bit of nice wine and be in Italy with your imagination.
We (the italians @ Opera) are hoping to recreate this environment in one of the northest country in the world (Norway).
Follow us at:
http://my.opera.com/ItaliansAtOpera/blog/

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An italian going from the Norwegian Opera to Beijing looking for chinese ponds

By ChiaraInThePond. Thursday, 18. October 2007, 13:50:48

Ponds, china, beijing, pavel ...

First there was Marco Polo, then Cristoforo Colombo and last (but not least), another voyajer: Chiara!
Someone could object that the first 2 well known travellers did not discover anything, but for sure their stubborness and spirit of initiative increased the cultural and commercial exchange!
The 3rd one... Well the 3rd one is not as important as the other 2 co-nationals plus will not have such big impact on human history, but she spent 2 years in Norway studying the smart moves of Amundsen, learning about Nobile's mistakes while browsing and singing Opera.
Yes, the spirit is ready to join her co-workers in China trying to create together the bridge between Italy, Sweden, Norway and China (and a bit more undirectly Polland, United States, Korea, Japan....)!
Chiara does not speak a word of chinese, but she's very confident of her italian body language (I can say "I am starving" to almost everyone in the word!), of her good mood and of the people who are waiting for her in the East side of the world.
She has been project manager for a while for Series 60 and UIQ phones but for her China is not good enough as a challenge, so she's going to learn new things over there!
And, no, sorry! She can eat sharks, but she'll never try dogs, Pavel....
Hopefully I'll find lots of ponds there and upload pictures!

Part of her survival equipment for who wants to know:
- Italian cofee machine (you've to be ready in the morning)
- Opera Mini Beta on her Nokia E60 (ready for shooting pictures and broadcasting them to the blog! Really needed: in case I'm completly lost someone can see the pictures and try to find out where I ended up!)
- Opera for my UIQ device with Opera 9 for a full interaction with the maps when I am completly lost (thing that I like, but sometimes happen way too often)
- Opera on my laptop for fetching all the addresses that I'll forget to print out
- Some more other gadgets
- Hmmm maybe some italian cofee and Gløgg would not be too bad in China!