travels, holidays and more…

Some time ago I visited the “Casoncello Gardens.” It is on the hills around Bologna, close to Loiano, in Scascoli. As soon as I arrived, I felt like Alice in Wonderland, passing through a small wooden gate and entering in that garden, full of colors and smells, magic corners and enchanted atmosphere. [...]

When you think of Germany or Austria, immediately you associate the though of beer and of the historical beer houses in Munich. Old, huge and noisy.

Actually, how can you forget the special taste of Rauchbier, smoked beer, a specialty of the nice German town Bamberg? You don’t usually think about the fact that those [...]

When roads and highways are jammed and the classic Sunday trip becomes more of a chore than a pleasure, it’s nice to rediscover places within a stone’s throw from your house, which you normally would ignore, but which can be a welcome surprise. This is what happened to me one day in August. [...]