Travel
Beaches in Northern Sardinia. La Pelosa Beach (Stintino).
Discover La Pelosa beach in Stintino: one of Sardinia’s most stunning beaches, with crystal-clear waters and white sand. A poetic, jaded, and...
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Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel. Elephants, Wolves, Dogs, Orcas, and Animal Cognition
Review of Beyond Words by Carl Safina: a journey through ethology, neuroscience and philosophy to understand animal cognition and consciousness.
Food
Seafood restaurants in Rimini. Fine dining. Trattoria Da Lucio.
Seafood restaurants in Rimini: Trattoria Da Lucio. Fine dining seafood with dry-aged fish, bold flavors, and avant-garde dishes like fish offal sausage...
Books
Karen Blixen, Out of Africa: a review of a colonial elegy suspended between nostalgia and disillusionment.
Review of Karen Blixen’s “Out of Africa”: a poetic and unsentimental memoir of colonial Kenya, exploring the complex relationship between Europe and...
Art
“Modern Bodies” at the Accademia Gallery in Venice. Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man and many other treasures
“Corpi Moderni” exhibition in Venice: Renaissance art, anatomy, and thought with Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man, Michelangelo, Vesalius, Dürer, and Piero della Francesca.
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The Municipal Library and the Archiginnasio Palace (Bologna). History on the walls.
Discover the history of Bologna’s Archiginnasio Palace, former seat of the University, home to the famous Anatomical Theatre and thousands of heraldic...
Books
Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals: an unlikely family under the Greek sun.
A witty memoir of childhood in 1930s Corfu, where Gerald Durrell’s eccentric family meets nature’s chaos in a sun-drenched, hilarious Greek idyll.
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“The Long Way” by Bernard Moitessier. A manifesto of poetic desertion in the heart of the ocean.
The Long Way: a cult book on freedom, solitude and rebellion, written at sea by Bernard Moitessier — the sailor who abandoned...
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Bloglovin — Because Apparently I Need Another Platform to Obsess Over
Bloglovin', like Google Reader, but for blogs.
Books
Review of the book “Log from the sea of Cortez” by John Steinbeck
Review of the book "Log from the sea of Cortez" by John Steinbeck
Travel
Stolen phone while you’re traveling: what to do
Stolen phone while abroad? Discover the essential steps to take before, during, and after a smartphone theft to protect your data and...
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Rome, the Vatican, the Pope, St. Peter’s Square and the Angelus
Join the crowd in St. Peter’s Square for the Angelus with the Pope —an event of faith, architecture, and spectacle in the...