Unbelievable places: Soussuvlei sand dunes, Namibia
Soussuvlei, its sand dunes, the highest in the world, its shapes and colours, its silence and beauty deserve a special places among the unbelievable places of Africa and of the planet. Namibia desert is neverending. For those arriving from North as we were at the time of those photos, for those coming from the […]
Golden Circle, Golden Iceland
There is no better way to be introduced to Iceland and its magic by taking a tour to the so-called Golden Circle, where the splendour of Gullfoss Waterfall, the Gold Waterfall whose name gives the name to the entire tour, the always stunning show of the Geysir and the neverending land of Thingvellier will not […]
Two weeks in Reykjavik: my 1st impressions
Time flies and it is already two weeks since I moved to Reykjavik. Lots of things already happened, lots of weather changing, snow and cold, nights out, laughs and smiles, lots of people met but still no sign of Northern Lights yet. Reykjavik is a cool place to live in. After only two weeks in […]
Ready to go again!
What a period the one that is finishing tomorrow at 10.30, when my flight to the place I have chosen as my home for the next period of my life, will take off from Amsterdam. Many thing happened in Amsterdam, a town that I love, since I came back after Africa. Many good things, like […]
Isafjordur, my Icelandic love
It was the end of November when I landed to Isafjordur, on the North Western fjords of Iceland. Useless to say it was cold, very cold. In Reykjavik my flight had been cancelled for two days in a row, due to the stormy weather conditions in he North. I had almost lost my hopes to […]
10 Travel Tips from me to you
1) Travel during low season. It is the best. Traveling in low season means you don’t find tons of people traveling with you on the same bus, boat, plane and tons of people and children in that amazing spot you were trying to see since a lifetime. Your pictures will be empty of pollution. No […]
The most of Africa
Five months ago together with the crew of Vikings Across Africa we arrived at destination, in Cape Town and our trip in Africa had reached an end. It seems weird that so much time already passed. It seems weird to be back here and to think of that time as much as it was weird […]
My bad experience with Iberia
The story: Last year on my way back from my unforgettable trip in Patagonia, I unfortunately had the worse experience ever in my life as a traveller. I took a local flight to Santiago del Chile, and there I had to catch the flight to Madrid, where I was gonna take another flight to […]
Northern Lights: the true story
This is the most funny of all my travel stories. The truth is: I have been in Iceland 3 times, always in the middle of the freeking Icelandic winter and I have never managed to see the Northern Lights! Never. Not even a glimpse, a green spot, a stain in the sky that could have […]
Bratislava in black and white
Bratislava is one of those nice Autumn surprises you don’t expect to get after a 18 hour night bus trip from Amsterdam. It welcomed me in a shiny, sunny and warm day of middle October, and donated me am incredible warm week of joy, discovery, surprises and catching up with an old friend I didn’t […]
On the Camino de Santiago with Christian
On a late September afternoon, I found myself in a small French village at the feet of the Pyrenees. The trip to get there had lasted almost two days,from my little town in Southern Italy to Rome and then to London, from there to Biarritz, and finally to Saint Jean Pied de Port bytrain. I […]
Pisa, at the feet of its leaning tower
Despite the beauty of such an ancient, stylish and beautiful place such as Piazza de’ Miracoli in Pisa, despite the amazing view of the leaning tower, enchanting in it perfect shape, there is one thing that astonish you the most in that Medieval Square: the people, the thousands of tourists standing at the towers feet […]
Antonio, across Italy on foot
Antonio’s amazing adventure, walking across all Italy, leaving from Oulx, in Val di Susa, on the 17th April and arriving in S. Maria di Leuca, in Apulia, on the 30th of July. Hi Antonio, tell us something about you. Who are you, how are are you, where are you from and what did you do […]
Elisa and Alessandro honeymooning around the world
Elisa and Alessandro got married last year in Italy and immediately after their wedding they left everything, their house, their jobs, their life, t start the most amazing of all their adventures: their honeymoon, a fantastic 1 year overland travel across the world. From the beauty of tidy Europe to the wildnerness of Mongolia […]
Africa: your questions, my answers
Here it’s some of the most common questions I had to answer once back home How was it? How is Africa? Africa is a wonderful land and the trip was amazing. It is still too early to talk about it and tell you everything, I feel I have to absorb the thousands emotions felt […]
Eating with an Italian princess
The atmosphere is charming and it enlights the warm Mediterranean nights of Southern Italy. It is like diving into the past, on Medieval night of ages ago when Antonello, sir of Salerno, sir of these valleys, introduced his beautiful bride, Costanza, to its people. People from all over the Southern reign came to his castle […]
Unbelievable places: Kolmanskop, a ghost town of the desert
In the middle of the Southern desert, the one belonging to Namibia and to the Southern Hemisphere, Kolmaskop is a true gem, a pearl of beauty and silence, like the Desert that surrounds and hug it. It appears on the side of an unknown road that runs for kilometres without crossing any village or […]
Capetown, between black an white
We arrived in Cape Town with a bit of joy and a bit of sadness at the same time, and so it has been in all these days spent here. Cape Town welcomed us with all her majesty and splendour, in some sunny and warm days that made us forget the cold we had […]
Richard cycling the world: Laziness and excitement in Baku
And there I find myself, sitting on top of a bunk bed in a hostel’s dorm room situated in the old town of Baku, Azerbaijan. I’ve reached one of the major stages of my ride. The cycling has come to a temporary end. No longer riding out of town after three days and moving on […]
The last day on the truck
It’s finishing and it’s surreal. The bags are packed, the truck is empty, life is ready to start again and an amazing chapter of all our lives is coming to an end. The last 24 hours on the truck have been absolutely crazy. Yesterday we spent the entire day packing up our stuff. Each […]
