Guadix, a Spanish Hobbiton

Manu | 16 March 2018 | no comments
Guadix, a Spanish Hobbiton

An hour away from Granada, hidden between prehistoric karst mountains, it lays the town of Guadix, the cave town, famous in Spain for to things: one is the copy of Michelangelo’s “Pietà”, preserved in its monumental cathedral, made in the early part of the 20th century by a local anonymous artist who ordered tons of […]

Alicante, Spain with a Nordic vibe

Manu | 11 March 2018 | no comments
Alicante, Spain with a Nordic vibe

Alicante  represents the door to the Southern vibes of Spain. It welcomes you with a warm sun, blue sky, lazy atmosphere and tons of people on the beach. After the cold days snowy days of Barcelona and Valencia, it is a pleasure to get closer to the seaside and start breathing a bit of Summer […]

Tarragona, pure magic!

Manu | 6 March 2018 | no comments
Tarragona, pure magic!

Arriving in Tarragona on the very first night of its Festival of Magic, held among the narrow ancient streets of its old town is one of the most pleasant welcomes I ever had in a town, in my life. This little town has a magic vibe around that surrounds and surrounds you from the first sight. From its Roman […]

In the sacred woods of La Sagrada Familia

Manu | 25 February 2018 | no comments
In the sacred woods of La Sagrada Familia

It is truly impossible to describe the feeling I had today while entering the Sagrada Familia temple, here in #Barcelona. I was simply overwhelmed by so much Joy and Beauty that I suddenly felt the need to silently cry under its silent grace. This place simply took my breath away. Stepping inside it was like […]

Venice, just a perfect day

Manu | 17 January 2018 | no comments
Venice, just a perfect day

Take a sunny day after the Christmas holidays when tourists are all back home to their daily routine and life, the air is nicely crispy but the sun is shining, you go out of the train station and voilà…Venice, Venezia is welcoming you with open arms and full open heart. You get out of the […]

Northern Lights:The dance of the Green Spirits

Manu | 18 December 2017 | no comments
Northern Lights:The dance of the Green Spirits

For many years one of the most funny stories about my travels was that despite I had been to Iceland several times, I had never managed to see any Northern Lights. I tried for three years in a a row and all my missions miserably failed. The end of the story was that I moved there […]

The sacred woods of Bjelašnica

Manu | 19 November 2017 | no comments
The sacred woods of Bjelašnica

Just outside Sarajevo, it takes you an half hour drive to get completely lost in space and time, with ancient forests taking over the cement and city buildings and wrapping you in their mystical and ethereal atmosphere. In a cloudy and foggy morning of Mid-November as the one of today was, driving up the mountain […]

Hesteyri, Iceland’s forgotten village

Manu | 30 September 2017 | no comments
Hesteyri, Iceland’s forgotten village

In a far far away fjord of the Westfjords regions of Iceland, forgotten by the rest of the world, reachable only by boat in summer, it lays the tiny village of Hesteyri, made of few largely sparse abandoned houses that comes back to life for a couple of summer months between July and August when […]

The mad mud football tournament of Iceland

Manu | 22 August 2017 | no comments
The mad mud football tournament of Iceland

Every year on the first week of August the Westfjords of Iceland become the set of the most crazy football tournament in the entire country: a football competition in the mud. Yes, you read it right! Dozens of Icelanders and non come up here to play football in the mud for an entire day. The […]

Dynjandi waterfall: pearl of the WestFjords

Manu | 4 July 2017 | no comments
Dynjandi waterfall: pearl of the WestFjords

In Isafjordur it is considered the most beautiful waterfall of Iceland and it seems a bit exaggerated when you hear it for the first time, but you understand they may be right as soon as you find yourself standing at the feet of the the majestic Dynjndi waterfall. Hidden in the middle of some of […]

My 2016 in people!

Manu | 27 December 2016 | no comments
My 2016 in people!

2016: what a year!!!!! From the latin vibes of Mexico and Cuba to the African style beautiful chaos of Jamaica, from the Arctic sceneries of Greenland and Iceland to the Balkans, from the magic of Sarajevo to the good vibes of Belgrade, the kindness of Kosovo and Macedonia, and the return to Rome to finally […]

Sarajevo’s scars and roses

Manu | 6 December 2016 | no comments
Sarajevo’s scars and roses

Despite being one of the most unknown and undiscovered capitals of Europe, Sarajevo is definitely one of the most charismatic and fascinating. This is not a capital like any other in in the world; there is a high energy level here that makes you get attached to this place after the first stroll in town.This […]

Hvala, Sarajevo (Thank you, Sarajevo)!

Manu | 14 November 2016 | 2 comments
Hvala, Sarajevo (Thank you, Sarajevo)!

It is difficult to say goodbye to Sarajevo. Sarajevo has a great energy level that makes you get attached to it after the first stroll in town. You immediately know there is something special in town. This is not a capital like any other in Europe and probably in the world; this is a capital […]

Sarajevo and the 20th century’s history

Manu | 1 November 2016 | no comments
Sarajevo and the 20th century’s history

Sarajevo has definitely been one of the main cities that has made the history of the 20th century. It literally opened the history of the century, with the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife Sophie, on a public visit to Sarajevo by a chance shot given to […]

Mostar and the bridge upon two worlds

Manu | 31 October 2016 | 2 comments
Mostar and the bridge upon two worlds

The road that goes from Sarajevo to Mostar is probably one of the most beautiful of the entire Balkan region. As soon as you go out of the capital, you enter in a region of stunning mountains and beautiful river sceneries that, in the colours of Autumn, shine of splendour at every turned bend. It […]

Partying with Jamaicans is not for sissies!

Manu | 8 October 2016 | 2 comments
Partying with Jamaicans is not for sissies!

If it happens to you to find yourself in Africa or in Jamaica on Easter, well..get ready to some really crazy time. I had already experienced Easter in Africa, at the time I was in Ghana in 2013, when the most crazy party ever just happened right in the place where I was. People, possibly […]

Flying over Iceland

Manu | 23 September 2016 | no comments
Flying over Iceland

  I am often asked why I do love Iceland so much and what keeps me coming back here over and over again since six years, now. Well, my way to reply is by showing you some stunning pictures of Iceland from above . I thin it is enough to understand the unicity of this […]

Knud Rasmussen Glacier, King of the Arctic Ocean!

Manu | 31 August 2016 | no comments
Knud Rasmussen Glacier, King of the Arctic Ocean!

  It is one of the most majestic sights you can see in Greenland, or maybe in the world. Finding yourself in front of a Glacier is always a very unique experience, often difficult to describe in words, because it has to do with that feeling of being small compared to the splendour of Mother […]

Greenland and the essence of life

Manu | 18 August 2016 | no comments
Greenland and the essence of life

  There is a painting in the hotel where I work, here in Kulusuk, East Greenland, representing an Inuit sited outside his or her tent contemplating a sun setting on a bay full of icebergs. The first time I watched that painting I barely noticed it. On the very first day we met, Naja, my […]

A day at school in Greenland

Manu | 17 August 2016 | 2 comments
A day at school in Greenland

  It was the first day of school in Kulusuk yesterday. I had the pleasure to visit the local school and attend the ceremony to welcome the new kids starting their school career. This year only one new kid is starting the school. He arrived, dressed in the national dress, together with his grandmother and […]