And one day, just as quick as the blink of an eye, you wake up and find nobody surrounding you in Vernazza, in Manarola. You can find parking places everywhere, and they are all free of charge. You walk around without bumping into selfie sticks, shorts that are way too […]
Tourism
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We think a lot about the question of sustainability in the Cinque Terre. In part, it’s a professional concern: we run study abroad programs on the subject, as well as alumni trips that use sustainability as a focal point. But in part, it’s just a logical concern for anyone living […]
Levanto is a wonderful town for families … if it weren’t, my wife and I wouldn’t have uprooted our family from Parma to move here permanently. But more importantly, Levanto is a wonderful destination for families. It has a lot to offer. Clean water with beaches that slope gently into […]
Despite all of the stereotypes and legends, the truth is that American tourists are usually no better nor no worse than any other group of tourists. What they may lack in terms of linguistic capabilities (which is much in comparison to tourists from any other country), is often made up […]
When I was just a wide-eyed undergraduate doing a summer program in St. Petersburg in 1993, I spent the longest of the city’s famous White Nights in a countryside dacha, drinking heavily and speculating about Chekhov and the world. When we ran out of inane conversation topics I went out […]
This week our blog has moved locations and is doing a piece for gaytravel.com, with whom we offer one of our gay-friendly tours. It features our colleagues at Sicily In & Out, a likemided tour operator in Palermo. Check out the article.
Over the past few months, I’ve had the luck to meet two of the more interesting and traditional winemakers in the Cinque Terre: Walter de Batté and Luciano Capellini. In many ways, they each exemplify what it is that we at Voyager are trying to bring to our clients: a […]
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 […]
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 […]