Giuseppe Maria Galasso
The Sorbs? Who are the Sorb people? And Lusatia? Where is that? Let’s start from the beginning. Lusatia is the easternmost region in ex East Germany. And that’s no small feat, especially if – like me – you were young … Read More
After covering hundreds of kilometres of steppe we arrived under a dry and cracky tuff stone. It may seem like like the introduction for Dante’s Inferno, instead it’s just the prologue to Cappadocia‘s marvels. This historic region located in Central … Read More
Iceland is geysers’ homeland: not only it is the country with the highest geysers-surface rate, but the the word itself comes from the Icelandic geysir which means “to gush”. Geysers are a special kind of hot spring erupting in a … Read More
In the northern part of Iceland, far from the coastline, the lava plains stretch around Lake Myvatn. Quite and blue, the lake marks an unexpected contrast in the middle of Krafla‘s lava fields and hot springs. Krafla is among Iceland’s … Read More
Rain, rain, rain. In Reykjavik it rains a lot. Low visibility, not the suitable weather for whale watching. Roaming in town isn’t an option as well: the wind blows open the umbrellas. But the coffee shops are comfortable, studied precisely … Read More
The Snaefellssness Peninsula, about 100 kilometres north from Reykjavik, is overlooked by the Snaefells Volcano and its glacier. This is were Jules Verne’s ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’ started. Descend, bold traveller, into the crater of the jökull … Read More
Kastelorizo is a Greek island in the Levantine Sea, Mediterranean’s eastern outskirts. A small place, such a small place there is not even a map in the tourism board office. They would just tell you where you need to go: … Read More