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Last summer I promised my little cousins that we would spend a day together and go the bio-park Zoom Torino. It is located about twenty kilometers from home and five kilometers from where I work, but I had never had occasion to visit it before. With those nice and warm …
What makes a destination special? Is the natural attractions or the historical monuments or the wide range of delicious foods? During the course of my journey, I have come to realize that it is the people that define a country or a region. The local population is and will be the core of any …
The son of our friends was spending a year in Turku, Finland, for the Erasmus project and then, taking advantage of a few days of school break, we decide to go visiting him and to spend Easter holidays there. Turku was the former capital of Finland until 1812, and it …
In Sweden nature is a serious matter. The country is mainly covered by woods and forests, lakes and green areas, and the population density is really negligible: about 22 inhabitants per square km. There also are big cities, like Gothenburg, for example, that after Stockholm is the second largest by …
One of my favourite museum in Torino is the National Museum of Italian Renaissance. It is indeed very interesting for me and italian people to visit it, in order to see historical evidence, but I think it could be even more interesting for foreigners curious to know about italian history. …
Berlin has a special charm for me. It ‘something that I can not easily explain, but you just have to try. I sense it in every street, every building, every museum … it is something that recalls the history of this beautiful and tormented city. Although it was almost completely …
Biella pedestrian street has nice shops, is quiet and a walk during a sunny afternoon is a pleasure. One of the remarkable things is that along all pedestrian street you get wi-fi connection. Then if the sun is too hot, and during the walk you want to “refresh” with a …
When you are tired of evenings with normal dinners out with boyfriends / husbands / wives and / or friends and you are instead looking for something new, that gives some boost by adding a little zing, here you could be attracted by a “dinner with murder” and you would …
In the heart of England, we visited the majestic and impressive Warwick Castle. The castle is surrounded by a huge green area: beautiful floral gardens and green fields populated by numerous peacocks that do not hold back at all and offer beautiful dances to visitors. In a corner of the …
I’ve been a couple of times to Taormina; it’s an amazing town, with lot of nice spots to visit and enjoy, with very good food and with pretty well known lifestyle. Thinking to Taormina very often we think about actors and actresses, fancy and smart parties or nightlife and, of …