Hi,
I’m Matteo, born in Cagliari on 1986.
For us islanders, planes and ships are just as common as cars and trains are for those who live on the mainland, what we call “the continent”.
When I was a child, I’ve been traveling with my family, and then up and down italy for sports, friends, work, life.
In the summer of 2009, at a particular time for me, I felt the need to get away from the usual routine, taking a trip abroad.
Two years earlier I went to Paris not alone and it was a nightmare trip.
The person with me had a panic attack as the plane accelerated for take-off and she said to me, ‘Stop the plane, I want to get off.’
I look back on that trip and smile, because it got me to get organised so I’d never go back home with regrets.
It made me decide to leave with myself. Not alone: with myself.
I chose a destination that was relatively close but that fascinated me for the context so familiar to me: Euskal Herria, Basque Country.
I boarded my car by ship and arrived in Barcelona.
A lot of miles by car allowed me to feel good, maybe also to know myself better, but above all they made me free to go where I wanted, when I wanted, as I wanted.
Travelling alone has always been a choice, never a sad option.
2010 was a year of preparations for the trip always dreamed and now become possible.
I still remember how I announced my 2011 trip at home: “I’m going to Russia… but I’ll be coming back from Beijing… I’ll be passing through Mongolia… I’ll be taking the Trans-Siberian Train. All by myself”.
When I got back, I was already thinking about where to go next.
I have come back 4 times to Russia, travelled in Asia (North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos), I have been to South America (Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Patagonia, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua e Venezuela), and Venezuela), I have been to the southernmost city (Ushuaia) and the northernmost city (Longyearbyen), I saw endangered animals and all those of the savannah in Tanzania, I swam with whales, I have seen magma explosions on the crater rim of a volcano, I have travelled back to the future, I have dived without cage with sharks at -100 ft, I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, I have lived the history of Ancient Egypt and I still have so much to do and see.
People often ask me what the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen is or the best trip I’ve ever taken.
I’s not possible to give a clear answer. One was definitely crucial.
Beyond the places, beyond the people met, beyond everything, the Trans-Siberian train is the trip who changed my life, because it gave me the awareness of being able to really go everywhere without problem
It taught me to dream and above all to make my dreams come true.
Travels are a fundamental part of my life. A priority.
Because travelling I’m totally free.
Every place on the Earth has become a reachable point for me.
I know I can go where I want.
“When” depends only by me, about the priority I give and the situations that lead when I have to booking.
Traveling is a dream that was born slowly and then became a need.
I travelled thousands of kilometres and had some incredible experiences. I visited places I had studied in history and geography books and, above all, met people and cultures that taught me so much and made me a better person.
Maybe I’m afraid of losing memories and forgetting something.
That’s exactly why I decided to write about my travels.
In my site there is all of myself, my experiences and my passions.
I’ve always liked to write, sometimes even more than to speak.
And I’ve always written directly in good copy.
The “bad” for me has always been a waste of time and an extra effort.
I have been fascinated by information technology ever since I was given my first computer in 1999 and subsequently gained access to the internet with a 56k modem.
I have always admired the anarchist freedom of hackers: boys considered first misfits and then criminals, only because with a computer in their hands they showed talent, cunning, intelligence, curiosity.
The Conscience of a Hacker (also known as “The Hacker Manifesto”), written by “The Mentor” on January 8, 1986, a few days before I was born, marked my connection with PCs.
This website has been officially online since 8 January 2021.
I’ve always liked taking photos and videos.
For me, a beautiful photograph is one taken by someone who has been able to capture the moment.
Postproduction and special effects have never fascinated me.
I have seen photos so modified that they seem fake.
Or at least, that’s what they send me.
I have already talked about how travel and dreams are related to me.
And cosmorevas is perhaps my biggest dream, my deepest journey.
I’m aware that I can reach any place on Earth.
Cosmorevas is my dream (revas in Esperanto) of traveling in the cosmo.
I would never have thought of travelling around the world until 2011, but I did it and I continue to do so.
That’s why I know that one day I’ll truly be able to realise my dream of going into space.
Travel, writing, computer science, photography and dreams.
That’s what you’ll see on my website.
Welcome.
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