Category: Europe
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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…
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Sleeping in hostels was another big change on this trip, and for a poor seasonal student worker, it was a way to save money, but also to make friends. In fact, in the era of talking to people, interesting acquaintances were made in hostels. The featured photo was generated by artificial intelligence. Sleeping in hostels:…
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I took the featured photo on the last of my many weekends in Tuscany, during a wonderful trek in the ‘ Pratese Apennines. That trailer could have been: With presumed or would-be girlfriends, arranging a weekend in Tuscany (or Marche and Umbria, close to my home) has also often been a way to better gauge…
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Dialogue with my super mom in the summer of 1996 when I was 23 years old; when I told her I wanted to do the Interrail. Mother I have decided that in September I will go on the Interrail. What is it? A train journey, alone, for a month in France, UK and Ireland Uh,…