bLOGBOOK - The car

The first reaction in seeing this car was surprise. I didn't expect to can find this car in Belgium. Once surprise disappeared nostalgia came out. It was nostalgia for the past, since FIAT Panda has been "my" car for long time. At home my parents bought it in 1989, and in 1996 they changed for another one, a new one. I started driving at the end of 2002, and I used that car. It was red, like that one in the picture above, but compared to the car in the picture mine was simply red. I used it until the summer 2006, when it was stolen. I was on the seaside with friends, and we all remained there asking ourselves how was possible to steal such a car. Now I can say the answer is because FIAT Panda was unbreakable. It could go wherever in the world, and nothing wrong would be happened. That's, in my opinion, what we can define as "made in Italy". My car was found in Rome, one year later. Once again I could keep it for myself. Then, in a couple of years that story was over once and for all. My car, together with all its memories kept in the nearly 200.000 kilometres of roads covered in more a decade, was demolished and replaced with another one totally different. In the meantime FIAT had stopped the production of that model, and an era - personal as well as Italian - was over. Now, in Belgium, just in front of my house, for a while I had the opportunity to come back to the past, my past, and I recalled all those people I grew up with left far far away from here. I miss you folks!