Finally, here we are with the closing post about Kiev. The question that may arise in your mind after reading all these posts could be “so, what to see in Kiev?” One area that you cannot miss and that you must visit is Pecherska Lavra district. Here you can admire a monastery that has in […]
Travel Log: Kiev, the Majdan days and Yanukovych’s residence.
Here we are with the third post about Kiev. The Majdan clashes were the days of rebellion and protest against the former president Yanukovych. To understand those days and how the population felt them, one walk over the Majdan square is enough. There are candles everywhere. Pictures of fallen demonstrators placed where they were killed. […]
Travel Log: Kiev and the war seen through kids’ perspective.
Here we are with the second of four episodes about the great trip to Kiev. For many reasons that don’t concern this blog we had the luck of being accompanied by some locals. People highly cordial and helpful like the majority of the people we have met even if sometime the linguistic barrier is an […]
Travel Log: Destination Kiev.
This post is divided in more “episodes” and in concomitance with the last one will be available a photographic gallery of these interesting days passed in Kiev. Let us start the adventure: Most common question that people asked me each time I told I was going to Kiev, Ukraine, was “why are you ending up […]
A fast and almost stealthy photo shot for a long story.
In Milan the weather is now warm, birds sing, green is back covering the city, flowers blooming in thousands of colours. While I was walking, during one of these sunny days, I saw in front of me this old couple and I thought “Damn! I don’t have my camera”. But I didn’t give up and, […]
Camogli and the fish festival
THE FISH FESTIVAL During one of the last post I wrote, I promised to talk about some of the many traditions you may encounter in this ancient country that is Italy. Here I am to keep my promise talking about Camogli and its fried fish festival. Camogli Camogli is a tiny village in Liguria. A […]
Milan, Palazzo della Ragione and the photographic exhibition Italia Inside Out.
Milan has a lot to offer when it comes to culture, and photography is often in the centre of it through important photographic exhibitions. Just to mention some of these ones: the exhibition Wildlife Photographer of the Year, the exhibition on the big spaces interpreted by the great Italian alpinist Walter Bonatti, and the one […]
No one can dare to touch Milan!
This post starts with a regret, I wasn’t in the right place during the right moment to take the picture I had in my mind: one of those “demonstrator’s” covered faces. A face of a coward, a face of a swine, the face of a person that has no other ideal than devastating without any […]
Italy, a charming Country where you can easily lose the perception of time.
Italy is made by particular places, each corner of this Country oozes history, a land that saw all sort of things, a land that went through both dark and magnificence periods but that seldom was bored. And so, wandering around between villages and cities there is no road without stories of every kind. If the […]