Monday 31 December 2012
You see, life is already so hard and complicated, so sometimes it’s just worth letting someone – or something – else decide what is best for those simple things in our lives so why not let the stars tell us where to go on holiday this year?…
Monday 28 November 2011
Wandering Pompeii and Herculaneum is like being transported two thousand years back in time, stuck in 79AD, the year of the infamous eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which had been regarded as a mountain until that time, a gift from the gods and beyond suspicion, and that instead buried these two towns and all of its inhabitants. Enjoy the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 3D at the new Virtual Archaeological Museum of Herculaneum.
Friday 28 January 2011
Seven cities for seven deadly sins. Budapest: the sloth
Sloth is the aversion to the act, it is a state of inertia generated by excess of contemplation, but also by listlessness, sluggishness and laziness. In Budapest all this can happen, especially because of two elements that distinguish the city: spas and patisseries.…
Thursday 27 January 2011
Seven cities for seven deadly sins. Amsterdam: lust
“… he kissed my mouth while trembling,
The book and his author were our Galeotto:
we read no further from that day on”.…
Wednesday 26 January 2011
Seven cities for seven deadly sins. Bologna: the gluttony
It is the more carnal vice, which is expressed with one’s own body and which involves the individual, without any interaction with the “other”: gluttony, the need or desire to pile on the pleasures of the table, eating and drinking.…
Tuesday 25 January 2011
7 cities for 7 deadly sins. Paris: the pride
The Pride is an excessive opinion of themselves that is manifested by an exaltation of the own qualities, but especially with a contemptuous attitude towards others.…
Monday 24 January 2011
Seven cities for seven deadly sins. London: the envy
Envy is a feeling, as well as one of the seven deadly sins, which is felt against someone who has something you do not have. It is direct, when you want what the other has, whereas it is indirect, when you would want others to lose what he has.…
Tuesday 19 January 2010
Planning to visit Lisbon? Here are the five things not to be missed!…
Wednesday 13 January 2010
7 cities for 7 deadly sins. Prague: the greed.
Greed is the lack of willingness to spend his own. Usually it accompanies the desire for others to spend to get what miser want. In short, if you offer the luxury to a miser and you don’t let him to pay, you make a person happy.…
Friday 4 December 2009
Rome is the Eternal City, Caput Mundi, capital of Christianity and dolce vita of Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg. Rome is a wonderful place for holidays … and for millions of tourists from around the world: U.S., Japan, China and from every corner of Europe.…
