Accompanied by a patrol of the State Police, they left Italy and reached their pre-established destination: North Cape.
Below is the story of the protagonists
The wind it was moving us in every direction, gusts of 50 kilometers per hour. We got out of the cars we couldn’t see more than 10 meters, shrouded in fog.
Bundled up in our jackets, wrapped in scarves and worried about our hats flying off, we looked for each other to be as united as possible.
Under the armhand in hand, runningwe arrived under the North Cape globe without even realizing it, with our voci and our bodies carried from the wind.
We looked for each other and found each other, as in the whole journey. Together.
We haven’t seen the darkness for 6 days, since our journey moved towards the great north: Denmark, Sweden, Finland and up to Norway… More and more light.
It is with this state of mind that We have arrived at the North Cape, with the desire to see the precipice of 300-meter-high rocks overlooking the Arctic Ocean.
And instead we couldn’t see anything. North Cape did not show itself externally… Cape Nord has shown itself… Mto insideinside each of us.
This trip was a bust the maskssometimes making fear grow, sometimes helping us to melt in an embrace, in a word, in a look.
It seems impossible to be arrived up to here and having done it together. We are us and we are equal and wonderfully different, men and women, boys and young people, who have decided to set out and bet everything on a few very important words: gratuity, fragility and peace. Above all peace, the one we seek within ourselves before bringing it outside, the one we would like to see return to Europe.
This is why we left, 5000 kilometers ago, ai to which are added the almost 100thousand steps taken on foot in the cities and boundless nature of Scandinavia.
Ci we are adapted to the temperatures, we have seen the vegetation, flora and fauna, language and traditions change. The hours of darkness gave way to the hours of light and we could hide less and less, until we arrived to the North Cape which for each of us is an objective, a restart, a journey that was first inside and then outside of us.
Nobody will forget these days; Barbara won’t, with her voice always a little over the top and her tantrums when she’s tired; Antonio with his desire to always be the protagonist; Valentina with her red cheeks when she gets embarrassed talking about love; Maklen and his unlikely advice, Franco and her tears of emotion.
Brith left because he didn’t want to leave, then he started sprinting photos that were portraitsto his fellow travellers. It was his way of being there.
Martina let go of sulks and eyes to the sky and she showed us smiles and looks towards others, even those most different from her.
Keyla he had many requests curiosand he infected us with his laughter, because “we bring sunshine to every place we go” And his motto.
Matilda she was worried about the changes, but she was able to adapt, putting the group first.
Peter, the youngest, he was scared for this very reason, but he was able to find his space of expression and returns home “bigger”.
The educators, the communicators, the ANAI drivers, the State Police officers, the President of Jupiter Salvatore Regoli, they provided the framework and support and they took care of this group of young people, all special.
We became a single group and it was the caravan that accomplished this feat, of putting us in crisis, of bringing about change, of making us discover ourselves as strong, courageous and at the same time fragile.
Do we have the answers to all the questions? Of course. that no, but we have a new way of listening to ourselves and following the path within us. And this is what “Destination North Cape” has taught us.
(Yuppiter Association)
