Best tour to do in Reykjavik
If you are in Reykjavik and don’t know what to do, the weather is bad and you have already done all the possible activities and seen all the possible sights in town, there is still a tour that is worth doing and that probably none of you has considered: the brewery tour Taste the Saga. […]
Flying over the volcano: photography bliss!
It is one in a lifetime opportunity and you know how much I love these kinds of chance. When there is a once in a lifetime thing to do I love to be on the main line, ready to get the opportunity. So it happens that if you are in Iceland and you get an […]
Pro and cons of living in Iceland
It is now six month I have been living in Iceland. Not a lot for many people, but a long time for someone like me, considering in the past two years this is the longest time I have spent in the same place. So far, Iceland has been gentle to me. It has embraced me […]
Photo of the day: Talking benches in Reykjavik
Many of you may not know but the benches around the Pond, the lake downtown Reykjavik, tell stories. There are 16 benches around the lake. You can sit and while contemplating the Icelandic beauty or simply your facebook page, you can scan the code that appears on it and listen and read poetry or stories […]
Iceland best kept secret
In the past few years Iceland has become of of the most touristic travel destinations in the world. It is almost impossible to go anywhere without find yourself surrounded by such a crowd of tourists that you almost wonder if what you are looking at is a waterfall or rather Monna Lisa. Would you like […]
Eistnaflug: Metal among the clouds
Take an unknown, unpronounceable fjord of East Iceland, get a couple of friends, drive all the way there through pouring rain and find the most incredible, astonishing and amazing festival in the world: Eistnaflug. On the second weekend of July the whole Metal scene of Iceland moves to East, toward Neskaupstadir, one of the […]
Let the game begin
My third World Cup abroad starts today. I was dreaming to be in Brazil for this world cup and I’d never ever expected to see it from far away Iceland. While watching the World Cup in your home country is a safe place where you are surrounded only by people supporting your national team, making […]
Nauthólsvík, geothermal beach in Reykjavik
Would you believe this is Reykjavik? Just outside the city center, between Reykjavik and Kopavogur, there is this little beach, one of the few white sand beaches of all Iceland, that gets really crowdy on a sunny day at these latitudes. Its secret is the fact that it is a geothermal beach, meaning that even […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
