Perhaps my favorite annual ritual in Italy is that of going around buying wine in demijohns directly from the producer and bottling it myself. It is a process that feels intimately rural, exquisitely traditional. Before wine became the billion-dollar snooty affair that it is, wine was simply something that everyone […]
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The entire coastline of Liguria is dotted with its characteristic olive groves, vineyards, and citrus groves. Of these last, the lemon is king, and for micro-climactic reasons, the lemons in Monterosso are better than anywhere else, which is why the city celebrates them in its Lemon Festival, which takes place […]
This week, we’re highlighting the “Upper Route” of the Cinque Terre, a spectacular trail that runs 17 miles from Portovenere to Levanto high above the villages of the Cinque Terre and the coastline below. And we got some help in promoting it with Seattle Backpacker’s Magazine. Rather than repeat myself […]
Somewhere in the pages of Kerouac’s great On the Road, (or maybe in one of the other works, sometimes all Kerouac runs together for me) as they are headed down the Western side of the Continental Divide somewhere in the Rockies, Jack and Neal decide to cut the engine on […]
I’ve lived in Italy for 11 years now, and I have come to the conclusion that I will never know everything about Italian cuisine. It’s simply too vast. It’s also simply too tied to geography to ever possibly hope to try everything. So much of the greatness of Italian food […]
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 […]
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 […]