If you ask almost everybody what their opinion is about technology, most likely all of them will tell you that it makes life easier in many ways. You can purchase, read, chat and see people at the same time, have sex, all from your easy chair in your living room. […]
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Spring is (nearly) upon us and the weather has been pretty wild here. One day last week we were on the terrace sipping white white in t-shirts with friends, the next day it flurried (unheard of), the following day it was below freezing, and then one day after that we […]
Going on vacation and using the services of tour guides, when you do the same job yourself, puts you in a very odd position. Pretty much like a chef turning into a client in a restaurant or a doctor becoming a patient. There is a high risk of being picky […]
If you live in Liguria it will be very likely that your life will revolve around trains one way or another. Often, people around the Cinque Terre have a very conflictual relationship towards Trenitalia, a bit like those things you hate but you can’t live without. Two years ago they […]
Despite the fact that it feels a bit like Don Quixote charging windmills, we always try to convince people that there are other hikes in the Cinque Terre National Park that are unknown, untouched, uncrowded, and with perhaps the best natural beauty you can find. We understand that most tourists in […]
I’ll be honest. Before moving to Liguria I had never spent more than a few seconds thinking about problems related to the weather. A rain storm meant just more water coming out of the sky and a snow day was, after the first 10 minutes, just a pain in the […]
Mass tourism is that flow of people and ideas that melt into one big inconsistent swarm. It is not that they are doing the wrong thing, just that they are all doing the same thing at the same time. This can be said for the hikes through the Cinque Terre […]
It’s a bit off the beaten path from our usual tours, but in preparation for a group, I was recently on the trail from Portofino to Camogli, stopping midway at the magical Abbey of San Fruttuoso, a place you can only get to by foot or by boat. It was […]
At first it seems a great idea. One of the best you had in weeks. A simple way to keep everybody happy: your husband, yourself and the three kids. Going on a hike, on a wonderful autumn sunny day, looking for Myrtle berries that you would later transform into a digestif. […]
The Ligurian countryside, especially in the area near the Cinque Terre, is not just farming land. It is known and defined by the authorities as a land of “heroic agriculture”, and you should keep that first word well in mind when you want to attempt to conquer it. We know by […]