Maybe you are not interested to know about it or perhaps you will consider it an eccentric story, but the pair of shoes that you see in the picture, have practically made the world tour, if the return is estimated, Antarctica included. My name is Fabrizio Scopigno and I have taken part in the 21th Italian expedition in Antarctica. I have left italy with your "scarpette" the 1ST January 2005 from Rome for Christchurch (New Zealand) via Frankfurt, Singapore and Sydney.

After a night in N.Z. I have left for the Antarctic USA base of Mc Murdo, this time with your shoes in my bag given the climate, and from there I flew to the Antarctic base in Terranova Bay. After the previewed period in the Base flew to the other part of the continent (French base of D.D' Urville) and from there with a Ukrainian icebreaker to Tasmania (Australia).

After having put my mythical “ITALIA SNEAKERS” again I have left for Sydney and by car I reached Fraser Is.. But during my return I have forgotten the shoes in the hotel and since I am particularly attached to them because my girlfriend had given them to me, they always travel with me, so I have contacted the innkeeper and I have asked him to send them via air to the address I would have sent him via mail.

After having tried for 2 months and 1/2 to get my sneakers back I was almost on the point of giving up, when I decided to phone again in Australia to ask if by pure chance they still had them. The operator has explained to me that after my telephone call. The address mail of the hotel had changed but that the shoes were still there and if I wanted he could still send them back to me and indeed after an other month I got them back, still with its box; full of labels.