Dublin: the art of entertaining The chance to visit this town came as usual from the Tbex blogger meeting in October 2013. Never had a real interest about this town, apart from a couple of things: the books of Roddy Doyle, which I adore, the film The Commitments and its soundtrack and my beloved Guinness (you may know…
Woke up at 2 pm, this morning, slept only a couple of hours but I was to anxious for this trip that I was not able to really close my eyes. Outside it’s dark and cold. My flight leaves from Bergamo ( a very little town in the North of Italy), but I decided to take the train instead of driving, avoiding a long…
Preparing my visit to Bit 2013 I was really excited: which new places would I discover, strolling around? Hidden stories to tell about always come from talking directly with local people and you know for sure this is not what you can find in a Fair. But this time I had to change my mind. Some years ago I visited a…
Genoa, colours of life!
What is the first thing that you do when you arrive in a town for the first time? Try to get oriented, look people straight in their faces to know what they will tell you, waving a shy hello, hoping she will welcome you and let you in. Well, I do all this things and not necessarily in this order. I do like people and…
Castellammare del Golfo: colours of Sicily
I was not supposed to go there, this summer I had not so much time or economic resources to spend in vacation, so I decided to go last second. I was supposed to fly for a week to Piazza Armerina, an old like sicilian spot but with a beautiful ancient roman villa, and then a friend of mine told me she was going to…