Tag: #travelexperiences


  • Visiting Crete in winter and Athens

    I decided to visit Crete in winter, with a double stopover in Athens around New Year’s Day 2020. I did it for one week and solo. To get around I used (in addition to two domestic flights) both rental cars and public transportation. This trip fits into the list of those to very touristy but…

  • Fellow travelers: selfies, visiting Lake Atitlan

    I begin to frame fellow travelers It only took me a few hours to begin to frame my fellow travelers. There were some very nice people, but I would not find the woman of my life. Plus I was going to have to be very patient, as there were a lot of selfies among my…

  • City of Trentino Alto Adige, robbed while traveling

    Bad weather forces me to change my schedule and I’m jumping on the cities of Trentino In my program was already the idea of visiting the cities of Trentino, but due to bad weather I devoted more time to it. As normally happens in the mountains, even in the Dolomites in summer, it rains often.…

  • Salire su un vulcano e abbrustolire marshmallows

    Climbing a volcano and toasting marshmallows with lava was a somewhat silly activity on the schedule that tickled my fancy for original things quite a bit. Antigua We landed in Guatemala City (famous for crime) and skipped it altogether to move to Antigua. Passing through the capital again in the following days, they did not…

  • Desert in Oman, tented camp and die Italians

    Nizwa The ‘time came for the alternative New Year’s Eve, which I celebrated in the desert in Oman. From Muscat airport I took the rental car booked at the time; good price with the addition that fuel costs exactly half as much as in Italy. For so long I was hesitant about renting cars on…

  • Dolomites in summer, the Swiss mountaineer

    A tour in the Dolomites in summer In 2021 I decided to return to the Dolomites in the summer as a child with my family, but this time alone and with a traveling trip. Also because the pandemic had not yet been resolved, so it was possible but risky to book planes. This was my…

  • Group travel, misguided insights

    The pros of group travel One advantage of group travel is that for certain destinations, it solves many organization problems. This is even more true if you are alone and have numbered vacation days. Especially in some countries, autonomy by private means is excessively difficult and public transportation has problems. I chose to have this…

  • Travel to Central America: Guatemala, Honduras and Belize

    Group travel agency The trip to Central America was my first with a famous agency that has been organizing so many for so many years; with a theoretically adventurous spirit in which groups of strangers are created. Distinctions have to be made, because, in my opinion, more than adventurous, they are spartan trips, because somewhere,…

  • I travel to Bulgaria, now I take the beating

    I made my trip to Bulgaria in June 2019, solo and using public transportation, it lasted 5 days. The stages were: This is the google itinerary; I went to Rila on a day tour from Sofia. It is a country that surprised me in a positive way, despite the fact that it is not very…

  • Visiting Dubai, reception in bed

    Many people go to visit Dubai just to see the world’s tallest skyscraper. I got there by a very comfortable bus from Abu Dhabi. The terminus was in the non-modern Bur Dubai area, with a nice reconstruction of old buildings in Al Fahidi). Spartan accommodation Nearby was the building where I had booked a bed,…