Italy + summer = gelato!

Italy + summer = gelato!

To tell the truth, in Italy we eat gelato all year round (too good!), but it is certainly in the summer that we enjoy this pleasure the most. After lunch (or as lunch), in the afternoon, late at night… any time is good to enjoy a gelato!It is nice to eat it in...
Forest grows thanks to birds

Forest grows thanks to birds

I was sitting on the sofa to rest for a while when I read an article published by the British newspaper, The Guardian. It spoke of two abandoned fields near Monks Wood, a nature reserve in Cambridgeshire, which have become a young forest with about 132 trees per...
Laundry in the sun. A timeless habit.

Laundry in the sun. A timeless habit.

Clothes hanging on the drying racks of the balconies. Clothes hanging on ropes pulled under the windows or on the terraces. Clothes hung even in the narrow alleys on ropes suspended from one end of a house to the other. They have been placed there in an accurate and...
The last emotion.  The plaster casts of Pompeii.

The last emotion. The plaster casts of Pompeii.

Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. Ten years earlier there had been an earthquake, but it was not understood that it could be connected to a volcanic eruption. After all, thousands of years had passed since the last eruption of Vesuvius. During that terrible day there would...
Desire to travel. Travelers gain confidence

Desire to travel. Travelers gain confidence

Lately we hear about “revenge tourism”, but it is not a negative meaning! This expression is used to describe the feeling of redemption of people who feel the need to travel after the period of austerity and constraint due to Covid 19. Perhaps a more...