“We will never stop exploring. And at the end of all our going we will return to the starting point to get to know him for the first time ». Ever since he put his book to the press Route to Venice. By boat and by bike along the Venetian coast road from Chioggia to Trieste (edicicloeditore), the entrepreneur from Sandonatese Gianni Pasin he really seems to embody this Eliot maxim. The volume will be presented tomorrow, at 5.30 pm, in the great hall of the Ateneo Veneto, in Venice, in a meeting attended by Antonella Magaraggia, president of the University; the councilor for mobility, Renato Boraso; Patrizio Roversi, Michele Zanetti. Coordinated by Nadia Pasqual. In a recent interview with our newspaper he explained that he had traveled to over 90 countries, that he had been in the most remote places of Africa and Asia, in China after Mao and in Fidel Castro’s Cuba, that he had used all means. of possible transport, from the camel to the rickshaw, to have eaten any food, including snakes and unknown insects, to have done a thousand jobs and to have imported the most varied objects into Italy from China, up to the hats, those with 6 wedges with American baseball peak. With his Master Italy he eventually became a leader in the sector, so much so that his hats are worn by the big names in Formula 1 and world motorcycles, Valentino Rossi in the first place, and by famous people such as Vasco Rossi.
REDISCOVERED PASSION
Now, however, putting aside his entrepreneur suit, he is back as a globe-trotter (with the same spirit that is suspected to have contributed to designing his adventurous career) to dive into the discovery not of remote wonders, but of those places to which the its roots. Rotta su Venezia was born from here. A journey with ourselves to discover that behind well-known places such as Jesolo and Legnano there is an often secret world that can fill with emotions, we read in the preface. A guide, with its 10 nautical routes and 5 bicycle routes explained in detail, but also a logbook, a travel story with the flavor of reportage.
Pasin, by boat and by bike, explores the lagoon and its islands, gives historical and naturalistic information. It passes through Venice, of which it offers addresses and corners that are not discounted. It goes along the Brenta as far as the gates of Padua, navigating between ghebi and sandbanks. It goes up the Piave, crosses the Marano lagoon, points to Trieste. Meanwhile, he talks to people and discovers their stories: Berto, the molecator, expert in hunting moeche, soft crabs that are fried are an increasingly rare delicacy. Silvia, the line hostess who becomes a farmer and makes street food in a caravan on the Sant’Erasmo island. Pasin collects memories, such as that of the women who rowed from Burano to mass, and evocative places, such as the burci cemetery (flat-bottomed wooden boats, used for transporting goods) along the Sile. Visit the fishing valleys.
Readers who want will have the opportunity to leave by following the instructions – at the end of each travel story, the technical sheets, detailed maps, even the list of distributors in the area. It is a must to leave the car and abandon the most traveled roads. Because to find certain glimpses you need a change of perspective, a new look, not as an impatient tourist, but as a curious traveler.
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