My name is Leo, I´m italian, though I consider myself european, before it was cool .. and then again (rightly) deprecated.

I joined Interpals as there are thousands people out there to learn from or to get inspired from. When I´m not working or working out I like to engage with people and write, please, indulge, argue, concede, fence and chill. If you have something to say, you have here one caring listener.

I am currently working as Procurement manager and always eager to ramp up my working and real-life persona (languages, experiences, ideas, skills). Of course I also indulge in light conversation (Heck, I´m italian :), jokes, comments on everyday life, movies, news, music, books (especially).
Do drop me a line in any case

I´m here for occasional chats with adults and the adult-minded about adult issues. I believe that adult as adjective does not mean XXX. That is rather a teeny conviction. No, by adult I understand ideas on how to better off the world or our sorroundings, new notions, new criteria of how to sort out these notions, new best practices, new methodologies, new beer flavours when the work is done.
Needless to say, I am here to make E-friends, to get indications, to help in any possible E-way (which does not involve credit transfer :)
Also, late at night, I practice languages via Skype (no camera due to PPP: PijamasPrivacyPredicament), with both convivial and serious attitude.

Ik leer Nederlands en verbeter Duits en Fraans. Mijn bezigheden laaten me alleen erg laat avonds tijd en ik vind dat ook emails een valide spraakmiddel zijn, daroom ben ik nu aan email-Penvrienden geinteressierd. Laten me weten! MFG - Leo

Job and Business are Ok, they keep your mind awake, but there is MORE: the unnecessary. To engage in unnecessary stuff (Literature, Politics, Society&Soft Sciences, Philosophy, Arts) helps me recharge batteries and breath normally.
My interests: World economy / Politics / Societies / Literature (modern and contemporary) / Journies&Travels.

Classical, above all late Romantic russian piano school, french piano school (Koechlin, Ravel, the "Apaches"), country rock, Jazz in all its ECM-forms,  Chick-rock in general (Joni Mitchell, Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Judi Collins, Jennifer Warnes, Bonnier Raitt)

R. Chandler, Charles Williams, Crime Fiction, american and french writers from ´30, ´40, ´50, Naipaul, Taslima Nasreen, Giono, Morand, Montherland, sicilian writers as Sciascia, Bufalino.

I don´t belive in quotes that pontificate, rather in the riddles-like ones, for example: Festina lente.