Old Town, Narikala and churches. The “serious” Tbilisi… Tbilisi’s skyline is an incredible landscape filled with churches, gardens, bridges, water, just above the Old Town’s twisting alleys. I reach the capital by taxi, travelling withRead more…
My Georgia. Day 8: Red Friday orthodoxy and mysterious pagan rituals
That little church in Kazbegi The door of the tiny Kazbegi church is just half-closed, the gate is half-closed, two men are chatting on the garden benches: it is clear, tourists are not invited, whateverRead more…
Wild falls and ghost factories. Go discover Ferrera’s secrets
The village Wild falls and ghost factories? Ferrera is a small village in Valcuvia. Its name derives from Latin “ferrum”, probably because of the Medieval craft shops for metalworking, and it’s just 16 km fromRead more…
Caldana, a walk with fairies in the wood
There’s a fairy forest close to Caldana, nice and small group of houses in the province of Varese (Lombardy), where elves and dwarves, witches, squirrels and other magic animals are real and close to anyRead more…
10 things you cannot miss in San Francisco
An American city with an eccentric and liberal soul: that’s San Francisco, California’s capital city on the Pacific ocean. Once you’re here, it’s easy to be conquered by its steep roads running towards the sea,Read more…
USA on the road – California dreaming (4)
After hundreds of kilometers of roads, hot deserts, hikes in deep forests, after an exciting but tiring roadtrip in the heart of West Usa, finally we reach the ocean… California dreaming. Another shade of stunningRead more…
USA on the road – Las Vegas, desert, ghost towns and giant trees (3)
Actually, this post shows the incredible variety in US lands: from the 9th to the 12th of our road-trip we jumped from the artificial reality of Las Vegas to the hottest desert on Earth, thenRead more…
USA on the road – Arizona, between the desert and the Canyon (2)
A land between the desert and the Canyon, with hot climate, deep abysses, Indian reservations (the Navajo Nation is the largest Native American Tribe in US), beautiful parks: that’s Arizona, the last of the contiguousRead more…
USA on the road – Utah, the Red Rock Country (1)
Time to hit the road. After 1 layover, 14 new friends, 3 Alamo mini-vans, 1 night in Denver in my first US motel ever (a number again… Super 8!), the adventure starts for real. CoastingRead more…
USA on the road. Postcards from Far West – intro
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars”.Jack Kerouac, On the road Hundreds of kilometers, lonely and immense roads, boundless landscapes. Skies of incredible blue, never seen before,Read more…