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Date of birth 28.02.1972

Official age 50 years old

Active and mental age 35 years old

Emotional age 7 years old

 

So here I am and half a century has gone by!  Most people are troubled by the years that go by, but I am actually happy about it! It means I have lived and that I am still alive! My father passed away when he was 50, so I truly thank the Lord, life and the universe to still be here and enjoy this incredible journey.

 

My 50th birthday was an occasion of looking back at my achievments and I must say it was not only positive but also useful.

If I look back  I think I have done almost everything that I ever wanted to do, apart from being an architect. Or let's put it this way, I am glad to be an architect, but after my degree, the natural thing to do was begin a University career but instead I chose to honour my father, (in my own way of course even if he wouldn't have agreed with my choice to honour him and not myself) so I followed my instinct and re opened his law firm. 

 

In the beginning it seemed an utter failure , but it wasn't, despite deciding only a couple of months after re opening,  to completely change my life and here I am today.

 

When I was 40, I started all over again, starting from scratch, obviously with serious doubts if I was doing or not the right thing and taking my choice of abbandoning architecture as a big personal failure.

 

Now that I am 50 I look back and I no longer believe it was a failure, actually on the contrary. Life is made up of experiences and each one is covered in gold. The more experiences we live the richer we become. Gold never becomes rusty and therefore, nobody can take away from me the fact that I am an architect, and to tell you the truth it has made me far more qualified with what I now love doing as a job. Arranging special travel experiences for my clients, that I like to call my guests. Making sure that their holidays are as perfect as they can be, properly organized and co ordinated with true passion,  meeting new people, cultures and above all emotions. In each one of them, in everything I arrange, there is a piece of me which my guests can take back home with them in their hearts for the rest of life.

 

My father used to say that to project and build a house or a building makes a part of you eternal, because it gives you the possibility of leaving behind a part of you on earth, even when you pass away.

I truly think he was right.

 

So I create projects when I create a holiday down to the minimum details, adding all that I know with a passion, culture, emotions and loyalty, projecting my personal values and principles, my passions and my knowledge, into your holiday.

 

Last week I got to know a girl called Federica  a little bit  better, who jokingly calls me "Piero Angela", saying that I am eclectical , I talk about a thousand different things in an utter and complete variety and in a totally passionate way.

She makes me laugh, because I think she is right, I just love what I do and love life and always wanting to learn more, in depth but also doubting myself, as Socrates said "All I know is that I know nothing" and  I know that if I  carry on  being curious and wanting to learn more , I will become richer inside.

So looking back, with moments of true happiness, regarding my mother, that has always backed me up and put up with my eternal curiosity all these years. It must have also been very hard for her to share my 50th without my father to whom she dedicated her complete life after his passing.

Regarding my daughter : a masterpiece of intellect, caring, sharing and wisdom.

Regarding my husband, who despite all his little or big flaws and sometimes I feel like hanging him upside down on the main mast of the Amerigo Vespucci, he has shown me that he will always be by my side, despite my flaws too!

 

Regarding Nebbia, whom I cannot call a 'dog' because he is not a dog, he is a person that walks on all 4's covered with lovely long fair fur, a gorgeous Golden Retriever that fills my like with love and originality.

And last but certainly not least regarding what I have created: BoM, Best of Mas, a tour operator since 2017, till now has grown continuously and so quickly, a company with only a few 'staff' but each and every one of them works with utter passion and enjoying it too. People that I have personally chosen, that are first and foremost friends and then partners, who not only help me with my job but fill my life with positivity and love.

What else could I ask for from life?

 

Long live life!