We’ve been on the road in Northern Italy since Tuesday when we picked up our Fiat Bravo from the car rental company in Milan. I’m not telling you which company because I don’t want to give them coverage. After several problematic rentals with them in Cyprus, Crete and Rome, we gave them another chance after … Read more about Life of a Travel Writer: Italy and the tediousness of red tape
Here are 5 more reasons to venture to Italy’s southernmost mainland region: 6. Sila National Park: breathtakingly beautiful, the Sila boasts three turquoise lakes skirted by sandy beaches; rural countryside so idyllic it’s as if it’s out of a children’s picture book with wooden fences, apple blossoms, and horses grazing in the paddocks; forests of … Read more about 10 reasons to travel to Calabria: part 2
For all my criticism of guides, there have been some who have impressed us, and there has been one who changed our lives. Darren ‘Capes’ Capewell, an indigenous Australian from the Mulgana tribe, runs cultural walks through the bushland and along the shores of Monkey Mia in the Shark Bay World Heritage area on the … Read more about Guides: a model guide from the Mulgana mob at Monkey Mia
So what is it that leads us to look for atmospheric antique cafes, charming old pubs, traditional tavernas and the like when we travel? Is it nostalgia? A longing for the past? But what if we’re too young for that past to have ever been our own? Is it that we long to relive the … Read more about Travel and nostalgia