This week, we feature a guest post from our friend and fellow Riviera-resident Vaud Massarsky who used to work as a serial entrepreneur in the USA (where he, among other businesses, published a weekly New York City real estate journal and produced live drama as well as musicals) and now spends much of his time…
Today, we will offer you ideas of how to engineer a perfect three-day discovery trip to an unfamiliar destination. For starters, make sure that the three days are really three different days, not the same day played on repeat. One way of doing this is to assign different types of sightseeing activities to each of…
Tourist Italy mainly consists of cities and towns. There are beaches and lakes, of course, but close your eyes and conjure up an image of an Italian tourist destination, and I bet that it will be the image of a historic town: Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Naples – urban destinations are also Italy’s Big Beasts…
The town of Alba in Piemonte, approx. 50 km south of Turin, is beautiful in a way that Italian towns appear to have patented for themselves. It has a beautiful central piazza, … … and, to counterbalance the weight of 2000 years of history, a more busy and modern town square (between Via Roma and…
Overtourism is in the headlines. Natives in some of Europe’s favourite destinations are protesting, demanding restrictions and aiming water pistols at foreign visitors – for the time being, they still leave it at that. For decades, tourists – inasmuch as they were thinking at all about the impact they were having on their host towns…
Most people who visit Naples for the first time put a day trip to Pompeii near the top of their agenda. We, however, did not. Our recent trip to Naples was our fourth – we still had not seen the ruins – and I finally surrendered, much in the spirit of a man who hates……
Most people who visit Naples for the first time put a day trip to Pompeii near the top of their agenda. We, however, did not. Our recent trip to Naples was our fourth – we still had not seen the ruins – and I finally surrendered, much in the spirit of a man who hates…
What people want most in life is love – or so psychologists had thought for a long time. Latest research in the field, however, appears to indicate that humans crave respect even more: and, above all, the kind of respect which is most hurtfully denied to them. Beautiful women want to be admired for their……
What people want most in life is love – or so psychologists had thought for a long time. Latest research in the field, however, appears to indicate that humans crave respect even more: and, above all, the kind of respect which is most hurtfully denied to them. Beautiful women want to be admired for their…
The concept of a journey implies that with every step of the way, the world changes in some aspect and also that something changes in us. (Italo Calvino) There is no Italian town without tourists. You only have the choice between different degrees of crowdedness: some towns at the extreme end of the spectrum function……