Tag: #diariodiviaggio
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A tourist empire has been built in my region since after the war, and to anyone who asked what to do in Emilia-Romagna, anyone would answer: organized beaches and discos. The anecdote I tell in this article is perhaps a bit of a stretch, since it really happened close to my home. But after all,…
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Altitude sickness was my concern for this trip, partly because of my hypertension. Read more about it here ; I started getting sick when I got to 4,000 meters, there are those who suffer from it much earlier. Years later in Bolivia, however, I dealt with it differently and had no problems. My general practitioner…
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By mistakes in travel I mean mistakes in planning, in choosing accommodations, but mostly in ignorance in choosing destinations, especially one. First stop, Annecy I remember as now the departure of the trip to Annecy and Geneva in the third grade. A classmate had a huge boombox; we listened to cassette tapes. The first one…
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My troubles in Eastern Europe is a verbatim account of the traveling oddities that happened to me in Hungary and Bulgaria. Particularly in Budapest, as soon as I arrived I found myself with a blocked ATM and credit card and very little money. While in Sofia an energetic man who was mad at me for…
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Other completely different scenery is on the way up to the Andes. Here, of course, the desert is rocky and arid given the altitude, and at the highest point where we stopped(Mirador de los vulcanes), we could see the highest peaks of the Andes. This rather long journey saw us leave before dawn, and at…
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Sleeping in hostels was another big change on this trip, and for a poor seasonal student worker, it was a way to save money, but also to make friends. In fact, in the era of talking to people, interesting acquaintances were made in hostels. The featured photo was generated by artificial intelligence. Sleeping in hostels:…
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New Friends in Jordan is a verbatim account of the traveling oddities that happened to me during the first part of my trip to Jordan. Specifically from when I went to Amman, Jerash, and the Dead Sea. I met interesting people, other travelers but also locals. In fact in the Dead Sea you really float,…
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I took the featured photo on the last of my many weekends in Tuscany, during a wonderful trek in the ‘ Pratese Apennines. That trailer could have been: With presumed or would-be girlfriends, arranging a weekend in Tuscany (or Marche and Umbria, close to my home) has also often been a way to better gauge…
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The tour to the Islas Ballestas was the start with a bang of a stellar trip, but if I had chosen the itinerary, I would have given more space to Lima, which we visited rather hastily instead. Tours in the Islas Ballestas These small islands are called the Peruvian Galapagos because of the very large…
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Dialogue with my super mom in the summer of 1996 when I was 23 years old; when I told her I wanted to do the Interrail. Mother I have decided that in September I will go on the Interrail. What is it? A train journey, alone, for a month in France, UK and Ireland Uh,…