One of the most interesting activities we’re used to doing when we’re traveling abroad is to experiment how local people spend their spare time and how they usually chill out. In few days in Vancouver we learned that Canadian people love to stay outside when the sun in shining, and to enjoy the summer walking, … More One morning in Stanley Park
Brace yourselves: a long, long, long post is coming. Now that you are aware of that, let’s start from the beginning. When we planned this journey we booked a tasting tour only for Caol Ila and Laphroaig distilleries. But when we arrived at Islay and we find out that the Bruichladdich one was interesting too, … More Distilleries of Islay (pt.2)
Islay is one of five whisky distilling localities and regions in Scotland whose identity is protected by law. There are eight active distilleries: Ardbeg, Lagavulin and Laphroaig on the southern part of the island. Bowmore, Bruichladdich, Caol Ila, Bunnahabhain and Kilchoman are placed on the northern part of Islay. We luckily had the chance to … More Distilleries of Islay (pt.1)
It is well known that it’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock’n’roll. Rewording AC/DC I’d dare to say: it’s a long way to Islay if you come from Skye. It takes almost 4 hours to travel by car from Skye to Oban. Then it takes another one hour and an half … More The Long Road To Islay
After the hike to the Storr in the morning we proceeded to the west coast of Skye in order to reach Neist Point, a very famous scenic view of the ocean with the western Hebrides islands from a promontory ad an old lighthouse. Neist Point is a must-see place of Skye, as you easily understand … More Neist Point and Goodbye to Skye
Val d’Orcia is one of the most beautiful places on Earth – imho. You know, I was born in Tuscany, I cannot be completely unbiased about it ;) It’s a green charming valley full of hills, cypresses small woods, wheat fields and ancient orography called “Crete Senesi” placed less than one hour travel by car … More Tuscany Getaway
Sea tide is very common on Indian ocean islands: during our honeymoon we had the opportunity to admire the beautiful changing of the beach during the day, from highest tide to lower, and to lower to highest again in the same day. So I obviously spent a lot of beautiful time taking photos of the … More The Tide’s Dance
Each year around the same time, the circular great wildebeest migration begins in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area of the southern Serengeti in Tanzania. We planned our honeymoon in fall season hoping to have chance to attend at at least one Mara river crossing… And we succeeded!!! Looking for a wildebeests crossing is a matter of … More The Great Migration
Following pictures describe perfectly our getting close to our very last destination in North of Serengeti: two days looking for the great migration of gnus along the Mara river. It was a breathtaking and exciting experience, as always has been during our safari. These pictures just speak for themselves: enjoy them!!!
Imago Volant 