Funny anecdotes with housing can happen even in Europe, here I tell some of them verbally. Often the traveling oddities that happen to me depend on the fact that I want to save something under the heading of sleeping. In some countries this is almost taken for granted, but it also happens occasionally in Italy…
Visiting Vientiane was certainly not at the top of my thoughts; and the accommodations in Laos are among the most picturesque I have come across. Like most I had hardly ever heard of the capital of Laos. But one of my favorite authors is Tiziano Terzani, and his book In Asia, had been ready on…
For the last part of the trip I kept my first naturist camping experience. From the mainland on the Island of Krk you arrive by an extraordinary bridge. I won’t tell you about the succession of spectacular landscapes. While the town of the same name, (like the others) is a typical seaside village that you…
Once I put my feet and car on the ground, the trip to Croatia became itinerant; on my mymaps the itinerary. Croatia trip begins from Dubrovnik In Dubrovnik I first headed by car to Mt. Srg, 5 minutes by cable car cost 27 euros; the view is worth it, and there is also an interesting…
Touring the Salar de Uyuni is the main reason for a trip to Bolivia and perhaps the whole of Latin America. Sleeping in a salt hotel before leaving was one of those activities that inspired me the most. Accommodations in Bolivia Spending cheaply, in Bolivia I stayed in what they consider to be gentlemen’s hotels.…
Our life on the savannah was immeasurably more comfortable as tourists, but still far removed from the everyday life of us Westerners. The comfort zone, the unknown one I personally experienced the discomfort of camping as a pleasure and one of the most beautiful aspects of this experience. Those who can afford it I assume…
Drinking in Portugal was extremely enjoyable, but so was eating. The premise of this article, where contrary to my usual I talk a lot about food, is that I love the pasteis de nata; I had a real gorge on them, so. The first evening, walking along the bank of the Douro we came across…
In this article I discuss problems with accommodation during some trips to northern Italy. Highlights include the 4800-meter-high peak of Mt. Blanc, the highest mountain in Europe, as seen from the Torino hut at 3800 meters. Room with olfactory extra In Lombardy, one destination that I have reevaluated as I got to know it better…
Walking in the Casentino Forest Park has now become a pleasant habit. This is the park’s website with many directions for visiting it. If I can’t be away one night, but I have enough time, on the weekend I do the hour and a half I need to get there. If I have more time,…
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.…