Category: Europe
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When people ask me about travel encounters I cannot fail to mentionIreland. Maybe it was also that by the fourth week on the trip I had definitely loosened up on English. Still, I chatted a lot with many, and I also got to know several people quite thoroughly. The friendliness of strangers To Ireland I…
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Going walking in the pine forests of Ravenna has now become almost a necessity for me; certainly a pleasant habit. I also enjoy it because I often encounter animals in the wild. Since I was a child I have always loved to walk. With my dog Tullio I used to take long walks both by…
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Italian Trans-Siberian Railway! From the name I feared a bit of a rip-off and instead it deserves this vintage train ride through the Majella mountains. After Croatia and before Alsace, here I am in Abruzzo for my second spring break with Z. This is the article of my travel plans for 2025 where I explain…
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Group photo is the second live on tour from Croatia. Featured are all the technical staff/chaperones, minus those who were photographing. This business trip and very anomalous, it is the first of what I have renamed the three Z-decks that I am planning in spring 2025. Group photo There are several delicate moments in these…
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This is the first video in the series of spring bridges with a Z. I am in Croatia precisely in Porec, Porec in Italian. And I have lost count of the number of times I have been here. This is the article in my travel plans for 2025 where I explain why bridges with a…
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I had high expectations about visiting Scotland, which came true, both for the places and the experiences. But also for Liverpool. Oh my God! I am speaking in English! As mentioned at the time the Interrail ticket was different. They change rules and systems from time to time, but I think it can still be…
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Visiting San Marino is a great classic for those who live in my neck of the woods, once also for Russian tourists. Italy for centuries was divided into little states, so much so that for centuries even a single state did not seem conceivable. Even now there are as many as three legacies of the…
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A tourist empire has been built in my region since after the war, and to anyone who asked what to do in Emilia-Romagna, anyone would answer: organized beaches and discos. The anecdote I tell in this article is perhaps a bit of a stretch, since it really happened close to my home. But after all,…
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By mistakes in travel I mean mistakes in planning, in choosing accommodations, but mostly in ignorance in choosing destinations, especially one. First stop, Annecy I remember as now the departure of the trip to Annecy and Geneva in the third grade. A classmate had a huge boombox; we listened to cassette tapes. The first one…
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My troubles in Eastern Europe is a verbatim account of the traveling oddities that happened to me in Hungary and Bulgaria. Particularly in Budapest, as soon as I arrived I found myself with a blocked ATM and credit card and very little money. While in Sofia an energetic man who was mad at me for…