Bondi Beach Ok, I am in Australia right now… cannot miss a beautiful “pop” experience, going to the Continent’s most popular beach! Bondi Beach – everyone – at least in Italy – spells it wrong:Read more…
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Sydney, day 3 – Yeasts, alcoholics and ghosts
Sydney in yeast… My colleague warned me – Don’t eat the vegemite – he told me – if you want to die, better for you to taste strychnine! – Ok, a little bit too muchRead more…
Days 1 and 2 – Down Under, between rainbows and meetings
Flying over the rainbow… Random meetings. Sharing random facts and experiences, just because at that corner you asked him/her rather than someone else, you took the train at that exact time, neither just before norRead more…
Italian jumpin’ kangaroo: an Aussie road trip
Australia“I love a sunburnt country,A land of sweeping plains,Of ragged mountain ranges,Of droughts and flooding rains.I love her far horizons,I love her jewel-sea,Her beauty and her terror –The wide brown land for me!“Dorothea Mackellar Immensity.Read more…
Tortolì: 10 places you cannot miss
I still have a clear pic in my mind about the first time I’ve been to Tortolì: it was june, 2 years ago, I was going there for work and I had no exact ideaRead more…
Gavoi, a stoned village in the woods
A fairy stoned village framed by forests and mountains, a nice lake, good food and old traditions. Where? You can find Gavoi in the middle of Barbagia, an inner region in Sardinia close to GennargentuRead more…
My Georgia. Day 9 and 10: Asia or Europe? Tbilisi, graffiti behind the bell tower
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…