Ilaria Di Sante

  • The Boredom

    Boring. Boooring. The word itself seems so heavy, it’s like being bloated, feels like having the mouth full of tasteless Aldi gorgonzola cheese, the philosopher Seneca himself defines boredom as a kind of nausea and this should let us think that boredom is not just a modern thing but it was already well known even…

    The Boredom
  • Negative Positivity

    Good vibes only stickers I’ve always liked stickers, to use while journaling, writing thoughts, to attach on my notebook etc., and it’s something I regularly do, in fact, I can say I have a pretty good sticker collection collected over the years; and I know it may seem something very childish to someone but it…

    Negative Positivity
  • Have friends or not have friends

    That’s the problem(?) If you said to someone you don’t have friends, that person would give you a weird look, he would say something like ‘Mmm..really?’ With a know-it-all expression on his/her face almost saying ‘weirdoooo’ because not have friends, or have very few, is a condition usually considered sad, not normal or not healthy.…

    Have friends or not have friends
  • Quote of the day #1

    “My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

    Quote of the day #1
  • Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay – Part 3 Crabbing

    It was our last day in Whitby, we only had half day left before coming back to Manchester and decided to hanging around the port; we walked a lot on those days and just wanted to chill. I was a bit pissed of, I was not happy with the photos I took and almost gave…

    Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay – Part 3 Crabbing
  • Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay – Part 2 Robin Hood’s Bay

    Robin Hood’s Bay [mentioned as “Robin Oode Bay” around 1322-1346] is an old fishing village 6 miles south of Whitby and 15 miles north of Scarborough on the Yorkshire Coast. The village saw the passage of Roman soldiers, Saxon peasants, Norsemen and Norwegians, and passed to history as the busiest smuggling community on the Yorkshire…

    Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay – Part 2 Robin Hood’s Bay
  • Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay – Part 1 Whitby

    Did you know that the North Yorkshire coast is also known as the Dinosaur coast? And that there is a village where in the past pirates used to live? I’m talking about Whitby and its neighbour village Robin Hood’s Bay.  These two villages, both overlooking the North Sea, are famous for their history, seafood, fossils,…

    Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay – Part 1 Whitby
  • The first of a (I hope) long series

    Hello and welcome to this space. I know, it’s pretty empty at the moment, but bear with me I wanna make it full of posts and photos.  I have to say though that for being a platform for websites creations WordPress is not so intuitive and not at all annoying! Anyway, this journal aims to…

    The first of a (I hope) long series