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Tortolì, Rocce Rosse

Tortolì: 10 places you cannot miss

Gavoi

Gavoi, a stoned village in the woods

Tbilisi landscape

My Georgia. Day 9 and 10: Asia or Europe? Tbilisi, graffiti behind the bell tower

tsdo altar, kazbegi

My Georgia. Day 8: Red Friday orthodoxy and mysterious pagan rituals

Wild falls and ghost factories. Go discover Ferrera’s secrets

Caldana, a walk with fairies in the wood

Monument Valley
April 25, 2020April 25, 2020 gypsy.rednotebookTravel

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…

April 22, 2020May 15, 2020 gypsy.rednotebookTravel

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…

Finnish Witches Easter
April 12, 2020April 12, 2020 gypsy.rednotebookTravel

10 unusual Easter traditions all over the world

Do you think Easter is all about eggs and chocolate? Well, this quick overview on weird – and mostly funny – 10 unusual Easter traditions all over the world may change your mind.Before Christian era,Read more…

April 8, 2020April 8, 2020 gypsy.rednotebookTravel

Cadorna line: since 1917 ready for the “ghost war”

Imagine to keep waiting for a war that is never coming. Weeks, months, years. Everything has been arranged: weapons, supplies, men. You are ready to fight or die, accurate news are saying that that theRead more…

gergeti trinity church
February 2, 2020February 2, 2020 gypsy.rednotebookTravel

My Georgia. Day 7: A pilgrim to Caucasus’ mountains. Gergeti Trinity Church

Caucasus. Climbing to release the wise Titan Today my destination is perhaps the most iconic image from Georgia: Tsminda Sameba Monastery, aka Gergeti Holy Trinity Church, built on a hill with the fantastic landscape ofRead more…

January 30, 2020February 2, 2020 gypsy.rednotebookTravel

My Georgia. Day 6: Mtskheta, the curious case of the lost driver

Didube station: urban chaos Svetlana, my host in Gori, is really the businesswoman she promised to be at the first glance: sanguine, robust, raven-hair and an imperfect but flawless English accent, organizes for me theRead more…

Uplistsikhe
January 26, 2020February 2, 2020 gypsy.rednotebookTravel

My Georgia. Day 5: Uplistsikhe and Gori, from pagan gods to Stalin

Is it possible to travel from Kutaisi to Gori? He’s just refusing to listen: the driver draws the route between Kutaisi, Gori and Tblisi in the dust covering his marshrutka to explain to me thatRead more…

January 25, 2020January 2, 2021 gypsy.rednotebookTravel

My Georgia. Day 4: Borjomi and Vardzia, the cave city

Mama Ali’s expression leaves no doubts: she’s puzzled. My trip to Borjomi and Vardzia, starting from Kutaisi, does not convince her at all, it would have been better to start from Tbilisi, because the roadRead more…

January 20, 2020February 2, 2020 gypsy.rednotebookTravel

My Georgia. Day 3: Katskhi Pillar and Chiatura, the mining town

Katskhi Pillar, the holy hermitage Maybe just for it, I would have come to Georgia. Lost in the middle of Imereti hills, built – who knows how! – on a 40-meters monolith, the hermitage onRead more…

January 19, 2020February 2, 2020 gypsy.rednotebookTravel

My Georgia. Day 2: three mystical monasteries around Kutaisi

Khachapuri with grandpa There’s a small graveyard behind Gelati, one of the three monasteries around Kutaisi, where the dead have tombs with wrought iron gates and full-length colourful portraits, proudly standing and looking at youRead more…

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