Category: Fellow travelers


  • Going to Russia with the wrong travel companion

    In August 2009 I decided to go to Russia with a brother who turned out to be the epitome of the wrong traveling companion. Of course, I am speaking for myself. We went as a group, for a week with agency; the sub-destinations were. When I bought a house, applying for a mortgage, I paid…

  • Silly death (for a selfie), maybe in the Maras Salt Flats

    That of stupid death is a theme that fascinates me a lot. Also because I still haven’t figured out whether it makes me laugh or cry. The award for the stupid death of the year. By now there are rankings for everything; one that I find very significant is just that on the dumbest deaths…

  • Group photo with teenagers on the road

    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…

  • WE to test girlfriends

    WE to test girlfriends is a verbatim account of the traveling oddities that have happened to me on my many trips and weekends in central Italy. For example, when I stood semi-naked on the street in the winter in Citta di Castello; or of one of the times I won a lottery coming back from…

  • Weekend in Tuscany, also for testing brides and girlfriends

    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…

  • Travel to Peru: going to the Andes

    I realized the dream of traveling to Peru in August 2018. Going to the Andes was one of my geographic puns that had been in my head forever. It lasted 17 days and was a group trip with an agency. The destinations were. This was our itinerary, very classic compared to those who go to…

  • Smurf monkeys and marriage proposal

    Smurf monkeys and marriage proposal is a verbatim account of the traveling oddities that happened to me in Andalusia. In particular there were unusual stops and a sui generis companion, my dear Australian friend Rebecca. Please note that the audio is in Italian. Click below to listen to the episode. This is the itinerary of…

  • Singles cruise, from the series let’s try them all

    My singles cruise experience lasted one week, in July 2014. I only went as part of an organized trip with a group on a cruise ship. I had also done the Nile cruise in the past, but that is a whole other thing and in my opinion not to be missed. How the singles cruise…

  • Alternative New Year on the road: ditching the spouse

    Also in Umbria, with a morose, I spent an alternative New Year’s Eve on the road, if only because I dumped her the next day. The cities of Umbria In Perugia, I really like the entrance to the historic center with the escalators that go through the Rocca Paolina, and with all the history and…

  • Nile cruise, comme si bello riding stu camel

    My first time in Africa could only be the Nile cruise. It was a dreamed destination since childhood, because of the ancient Egyptians and the movie (Murder on the Nile) based on Agatha Christie ‘s novel with the famous character Hercule Poirot. The Nile Cruise After having this experience I believe that if one has…