Category: Accommodations
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In New York City parties is a verbatim account of some of the traveling oddities that happened to me on a trip I took to the United States. Please note that the audio is in Italian. It was a short but intense trip, in fact I will dedicate two episodes of the podcast to it.…
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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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Spartan Accommodations in the Emirates is a verbatim account of the traveling oddities that happened to me in the Emirates, particularly in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. I stayed there for only 3 days, but they were intense. The oddities refer mainly to the accommodations, which to limit the very high expenses in those areas, I…
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Getting sick while traveling can happen, it has happened to me several times and it is never good. It is even worse if you are in a bad hotel, among the worst for me frequent budget accommodation. Stop at Agia Napa, adda passà ‘a nuttatta In the pre-covid era, no one paid attention to who…
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One of the many myths I had as a traveler was to see New York with snow, and I was lucky because I caught it on the very last day. Instead I was definitely unlucky with accommodations, but sleeping decently and cheaply in New York is impossible. Sleeping in New York Sleeping in New York…
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Another unmissable and must-do moment on a trip to Jordan, in my opinion, is sleeping in Wadi Rum, in a Bedouin tented camp. Sleeping in Wadi Rum Maybe it was because I had not yet read The 7 Pillars of Wisdom, the beautiful autobiographical novel by the celebrated Lawrence of Arabia; maybe it was the…
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I had the myth of going to Transylvania and Dracula’s castle, even though I was well aware that the real historical character very distantly inspired the invented character. Going to Transylvania like Filini and Fracchia. To many Italians of my generation, the journey to Transylvania brings to mind the movie Fracchia v. Dracula with Paolo…
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There were two weekends I went to Romania, the first in 2011 and the second in 2024. The first time I saw very little and went only to meet what should have been the greatest love of my life. First weekend in Romania for love We had met online, because she had introduced herself as…
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Sleeping in hostel with mega snoring Among many, one of my most positive experiences in sleeping in hostels was in the capital of Denmark, but from the second day. I had the opportunity to visit Copenhagen during a solo weekend in April 2018. I liked the general, although what I remember most fondly was visiting…
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Visiting a Mayan site: Tikal Of course, another goal of the trip was to visit a Mayan site; we saw 2 nice big ones. In our Western ignorance, many people cannot distinguish between the various pre-Columbian civilizations, the most important of which were Tikal is Guatemala’s main Mayan center; many temples have been recovered from…