Leaving out the important things, like e.g.: visas, information about Countries, means, feasible and unfeasible courses, real dangers... well skipping this all because time goes by and January is coming... I find myself writing with my arms and my little bottom pitted by the punctures that I must have had to tick off at least partly some of the points of the never-ending vaccine list that we would have to do (tiphoyd fever, hepatitis A and B, yellow fever, tetanus diphtheria, meningicoccic meningitis, Japanese encephalopathy – even though in Italy there is not the vaccine – and, as if that were not enough, even cholera, rabies and… drum roll… malaria!!) ah-ah, in sum, I surely die even before leaving! …