I may have mentioned once or twice that the weather here in Liguria is, well, stupendous. (We’ll discount the anomalous 2 weeks of nippiness that froze our buns in our poorly-insulated house.) For someone who finds the weather an essential part of the quality of his daily life (just like […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
Times are tough, funding for schools has fallen through the floor, and all of our family budgets are feeling a bit more strained than before. Here in Italy, we’re lucky that things haven’t gotten any worse. Voyager believes in the importance of school field trips as a chance to break […]
We’ve just come back from BIT , the massive annual expo in Milan. It was a great day, eye-opening in many respects to the amount of volume and innovation there is in the tourism sector. We made some great new contacts, hopefully opening up to new markets beyond those we […]
Our most complete tour of this spectacular area, the Cinque Terre by Land and Sea, has just been revamped to allow people the opportunity to explore the Ligurian capital city of Genoa. For those of you who don’t know much about it, Genoa was ruler of the Mediterranean world in […]
Our logo was designed by Salvatore Verazzo, an independent graphic designer and typography-lover. We love his work because he is capable of putting together minimalist designs that capture the essence of his clients. From the very beginning, his idea for the Voyager logo seemed right, and we remain enthusiastic about […]
The annual appointment of tourism professionals in Italy, the BIT in Milan, is revving up this week, and Voyager will be making its modest first appearance at it. Armed with flyers, brochures, business cards, proposals, and good cheer, we’re going to be spreading the word about a new way to […]
A few weeks ago, after spending an afternoon getting scratched up by brambles and cursing heavily at baling wire getting wrapped around my brush-cutter, my wife and I stood back and looked with no little satisfaction at the small plot of land that we had rescued from under the encroachment […]
The land that we bought 5 years ago on a ridge high up between Monterosso and Levanto was once carefully cultivated by a kind old man whom I had the opportunity to meet twice. Ernesto had worked this land since before the war, clearly remembering the time that he and […]
There are innumerable things about living in a small town that can inspire or infuriate. Because I happen to love my small town (nb: Levanto, Italy), I usually tend to find myself on the inspirational side. Today, after schlepping up four flights of stairs to the offices where I hold […]
On October 11th, I promised that I’d be writing an update on my reading habits as soon as I finished the mammoth Bleak House by Charles Dickens. On that day, I hypothesized that I probably wouldn’t be finishing it anytime before the summer, given my slow-poke reading pace and the […]