Solitude can be scary. So, many people choose not to go travelling on their own. Yet, solo travelling should be tried at least once in life, and I guarantee you’ll meet many awesome individuals. Here’s a post dedicated to them, along with a big hug, and some reflections on what it […]
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Uncontrolled over-development, plastic pollution, strong corruption, and a nonconstructive, sometimes violent attitude towards foreigners, makes Cambodia one of the worse places I have visited, despite the potential to be a real paradise. Here is my experience, and the reasons behind this assessment. When you travel long-term and you visit many […]
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Nightlife and great food, temples and opera, and of course Pandas. Chengdo is the Sichuan Province capital, and with its surrounding area rich of giant Buddhas and holy mountains, it is emerging as the place to visit for both Chinese and western tourists. A place with a wide cultural heritage, […]
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Two months in Delhi is enough time to visit many touristic and less touristic sites, and learn something about the city’s vibe. So, here is a list of places worth visiting, or maybe not. All I can guarantee is an honest review, from my point of view that is, presented […]
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Teach people how to design and grow their own organic vegetable gardens. Provide them with the space, the tools and the know-how they need to make it self-sustainable. Provide long term support and create a sense of community around it. Do all of this and you will have Edible Routes, […]
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The Raj Ghat, in the North-East part Delhi, is a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, and is situated in a big green park, with long avenues and wide meadows. The black marble is settled where Gandhi cremation took place, while on the other side an eternal flame burns. Gandhi is a […]
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Eyes with no smile and no rancour, with no desire nor fear, neither hard nor gentle. Just the resolute humbleness of those who know hardness, and have accepted an unchanging fate. I was just going through the streets of Delhi on a taxi, or a rickshaw, I can’t remember, when […]
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A walk around Old Delhi means a visit to sacred places of all main religions, lots of markets, great street food, decadent mansions from the Mughal era, and a great poet‘s last residence. Kites are flying over the roofs of Old Delhi, they look like flocks of swallows against the […]
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One, I have been working for many years in the EU politics realm, and in communications. Two, I have discussed issues such as trade agreements, immigration, EU integration, Brexit, and whatnot millions of times, in and out the social networks. Three, I’m Italian. So? What about being Italian? So, right […]
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Tharu is the name of the ethnic group of the Terai region, Nepal. This is to a larger extent still a rural society, and among their know-how and practices, still live on the role of the Guruwa, or healers. The Guruwa (pronounced Goo-roo-wah) are doctors, with lots of knowledge about […]
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The people of Nepal’s Terai, Tharu, have still a quite intact rural life style, but how long will it take to the force of modernization to kick in and change this society forever? When you stay for over a month in Nepal’s Terai, Thakurdwara, right outside Bardia National Park, you […]
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What was atavism according to Jack London? This review tries to shed light on what the author really meant by it through the analysis of two of his works: the novel Before Adam, and the short story Goliath. When I read a book written by Jack London I am always, […]
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