"Si trattava di realizzare un sogno che avevo da bambino, e di conoscere il mondo” ha dichiarato l’autostoppista professionista ai microfoni di AFP. Nel suo viaggio il ragazzo ha incontrato tantissimi popoli ed etnie, ma anche organizzazioni umanitarie ed ecologiste, ha regolarmente inviato foto ed email per aggiornare il suo resoconto, ha chattato con i bambini di un ospedale francese di cui faceva il portavoce virtuale nel mondo. E ha visto tantissimi tipi di animali, come ad esempio i pinguini.

È giunto a Copenhagen sabato scorso il giovane danese Palla Huld, dopo aver compiuto in 44 giorni il giro del mondo, per commemorare il centenario di Giulio Verne. Bravo e ardito ragazzo.

Could we have trout? No. Chicken? No. Beefsteak ? No. What could we have ? Veal and eggs. The strangers from Gastein had eaten up everything else which the Bockstein inn possessed. Veal and eggs are the two staple delights of the German stomach; the veal steaming with fat and mustard, and the eggs horrible with butter and garlic. Ugh 1 All my life I shall remember the egg-salad which dear Marie added to our dinner yesterday, and of which I tasted, to appear civil, but was positively obliged to swallow hastily, like calomel, by help of great mouthfuls of beer. I thought I had tasted of bad things in Italy, but I give Germany the unquestioned palm.

Hunt Jackson, Helen. Bits of travel. Boston: J.R. Osgood, 1874.

For 26 years I was an alcoholic and lived my life out of control. I never even thought of God much less sought a personal relationship with Him. This is how it is now. Through my youngest son's surrender to cocaine addition, I was able to get a good look at my life the way God saw it and it was not a pretty picture. I was to the place in my addiction that I was drinking around the clock and thought that I would die without it.