Note 1

We changed our hotel and the hostess gave us cookies. We walked in the evenings and through binoculars we saw a restaurant on the other side on the hill and decided to go there. We chose a place in the very corner and there were figs next to us that were growing on a tree and they were tasty.

Suddenly Jonathan said: “Listen, I think it’s better for us to sit in another place.” And after I stood up from the chair and turned around to see what was there, I saw a huge spider hanging on a web right behind me!

We moved.

There was such a funny waiter, we said that we moved because of the spider and pointed at it, and he had such a funny reaction! He said:

“Oh my God! He is on its way to become a spider Man! It’s better to leave him in his space there!”

It was so funny, and then he was asking a couple nearby in such a funny voice:

“Excuse me, can I ask you a question?

Where are you from?”

They answered that they were from France.

He said that he dreams to go there: “I would love to go there sometime.”

And after a little time he came again to this couple and with exactly the same voice and the same expression asked:

“Excuse me, can I ask you a question?” Haha, the couple was already a bit confused and said okay, and he asked:

“Where are you from?” Right after Jonathan whispered to me the same phrase before he said it!

It was so funny, we were all laughing together, and the waiter was apologizing and saying that he forgot that he had already asked.

We stayed there for a while, laughing and watching the sky change, feeling quietly happy.

August 25, 2022

Note 2

We’re sitting on a plane on our way to Sicily! I’m pregnant!

26 weeks. A baby boy in my belly, already around 35 cm. On our last trip we found out who was hiding there — and it turned out to be a boy! We are so happy. What else really matters in life? These people and these moments.

We’re taking off.

Now we’re in the clouds, and I’m already feeling the anticipation of a week in Sicily. A hot island with an active volcano. I’m tuning into feminine energy, into pleasure, into being in the flow. I didn’t really plan anything special — we’ll just drive around, enjoy, and take photos.

I haven’t even arrived in Sicily for inspiration yet, and already I’ve had a realization, a new idea.

The idea is this: I always write notes in my notebook every time I’m on a flight, and I want to find people who do the same. To collect the most interesting ones and create a small book of notes, and publish it. I want to capture that feeling of coziness, something almost magical, that sense of anticipation.

When you sit on a plane, you forget all your problems. You put on your headphones with calm music, open your little notebook, and sink into your thoughts. You reflect, you write down small moments of life alongside the bigger feelings you carry. And then, flying above the clouds, you order — as a tradition — tomato juice or hot tea, and enjoy the beginning of a new journey, with new adventures and emotions that will later turn into warm memories, captured in photographs and in notebooks.

We’re about to land. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Mount Etna. There’s a haze — maybe it’s from the volcano. And in general, the landscape is incredible — mountainous and slightly dramatic.

This island feels so mystical to me.

June 25, 2025