Tag: #viaggiareinitalia


  • Touring Italy: original vs classic itineraries

    As I travel around Italy, each time I return home with ideas for other places to visit. One advantage of traveling alone is the greater ease in making somewhat absurd plans without having to mediate and account for them with anyone. For example, in June 2024 I had 4 days off and decided on an…

  • Sympathetic encounters during trips to southern Italy

    In October 2023, to celebrate (a little belatedly) my 50th birthday I decided to go and see that piece of Calabria that I had not been able to see from the summer of 2020. I had a couple of the most fun encounters during travels of my life. Most of all, I wanted to go…

  • Wrong travel companions touring southern Italy

    In this article I cite some examples of mistaken fellow travelers, touring southern Italy. In August 2020 with what I renamed the lady of the woods we went on a road trip. Why we got this nice nickname I tell in this article. We had also brought along our marbles and bucket, but I didn’t…

  • Traveling in southern Italy: cannoli, cassate and pasticciotti

    A trip to southern Italy is always a good idea, and I plan to savor everything I can. I say savor because in my opinion, it is the absolute best eating area in the world. Cannoli, cassate and pasticciotti are fantastic southern desserts. But the last two, also idioms in Italian that can mean trouble…

  • Getting lost in the woods, the 00 trail, between Emilia Romagna and Tuscany

    Getting lost in the woods, it’s not always bad Getting lost in the woods, is an experience that everyone should have in life. Getting lost happened to me even in the Kuala Lumpur subway, so let alone in the Apennines. In the Casentino Forest Park I usually use the 2 official paper park guides with…

  • On the road into central Italy, marriage proposal (Italy and Vatican)

    This set of trips titled in English on the road into central Italy, collects the series of anecdotes happened in On the road into central Italy, but also hunting for porcheddu Currently in Sardinia I have only been for one long weekend in the Cagliari area. I did an ‘excursion inland to see the larger…