I have been on several hikes lately. I am not new to this – I have always enjoyed walking in the open air, puffing along steep trails. But since I have been back from my latest trip I have felt … Read More
My family roots are in Marche, Central Italy, more exactly in an area known as Fermano. As every year, even this one I went to spend my summer holidays in Marche. This time I decided to spend my three weeks … Read More
It’s a well-known fact that visitors to Italy need to take along a healthy appetite, and maybe even some comfy slacks to travel home in. This is carb central and a wine mecca, delicious dishes washed down with locally produced … Read More
There are places worth visiting just for their simple beauty and the unforgiving charm they are able to act upon us. Places which are often not that far from home. I am Italian. My roots are in Marche but I … Read More
The first time I heard about Bibione as a tourist destination it was during my travel in Czech Republic a few years ago. I used to ask ‘have you ever been to Italy?’, and often people would answer me ‘yes, … Read More
I can hardly imagine how my province has to look like to the ‘strangers’ in this time of the year. Irpinia – a historic region roughly located around Avellino, in Southern Italy – is usually renown for being quite a … Read More
In Italian lagoon is feminine. Quite and mysterious. The sea, instead, is masculine. It never rests, always subjected to wind and waves.(from the movie ‘Shun Li and the Poet’) I spent a weekend in Italy, in the north-eastern region Veneto. … Read More
A short while ago I had the chance to spend a week end in Pescara, an Italian town facing the Adriatic Sea. The region of Abruzzo did not welcome me very well: on my first day here I had the … Read More
Folgaria, Lavarone and Luserna: 105 square kilometres of mountains in south-east Trentino, Northern Italy. A highland of sweet shapes, mostly made of long stretches of green fields, small lakes, hills and huge forests, with the Dolomites in the background. In … Read More