The Creator made Italy from designs by Michaelangelo. Mark Twain Italy might not be as elegant as the country Twain visited in 1867, however it still retains a lot of its Renaissance fascination and authenticity. Tuscany, in particular, with its green hills dotted with pine trees and vineyards, small villages whose medieval architecture holds intact, is a charming …
Category Archives: My trips
My Insolent Italy
Here is a countryside piece of southern Italy, a hilly sweep that stretches out in the area between Benevento and Avellino. A village named Terranova is my mum’s native place, a tiny town where we find a few houses surrounding a square overlooked by a church. This church below. My mum was born in one …
Canada, Mon Amour
I’m on my way. On my way to the world I want to explore, to the people that I’ll be happy to meet and smile to. Most of the time emotions and experiences earned during a trip come up when we stop and think about them from a distance. It’s been one week I left …
Blue is Greece
It happens to me to lack control on words. Sometimes. It’s when I am just full of barren words, like a field lacking vegetation, and I don’t believe enough on the power of the written language. Photography helps me, encourage me to describe what I see when it is clear to me that words will …
A Piece of London
Living in London means many things. One of these is that just 15 minutes long tube rides can take you to the countryside – to a farm inhabited by pigs and ducks – and to a busy, metropolitan and eclectic district. This is my Saturday in pics, a day spent visiting the Mudchute farm in …
Street-Feasting in London
It would be good to eat heartily on Sunday just to recall one of the most sacred Italian habit. My relatives in Naples still gather all together around one long table in my grandma’s home every Sunday afternoon. They start eating at 1 pm. They finish at some point later, after at least 5 courses. Meantime, in London, …