I’m back to London – the last time I was here was in 1989, quite a long time ago. My life is changing again, and I need a long break from Italy. I’m escaping – I know – from a situation that got too tough and that I can’t stand anymore. “Go to London!”, a mate told me; “Come to London!”, another one replied. So I’m back – open, curious, and willing to see, meet and feel “something else”. We never know what, when we leave. We leave imagining and hoping that what we find will be better of what we left behind.
It’s November 2009, and this is not a travelogue. It’s only another bit of fieldwork I want to do, while attempting to give a sort of direction to my life (but it’s also true that “life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”). The next four posts were initially sent to my friends while spending the month in UK. Next ones will be posted after I get back, on January 8th, 2010, when my real stay begins.
London, you have an Italian anthropologist in town!