If you follow my blog posts regularly, you must know by now that most of my travels have as starting point a book I have read. Setting my eyes on Villa Medici wasn’t by accident: I had heard, studied and seen movies about this family ever since I was a child. My grandmother was a…
“I love the silent hour of night” said Anne Bronte and I second that. Many passionate photographers would nod affirmatively to that too with their tripod and photographic gear hanging heavy on their shoulder. But don’t discourage if you’re not into photography: night is the time when blissful dreams arise and the city reveals its…
To fully enjoy your visit to the Vatican City, you must have plenty of patience, love people enough to share your breath with strangers and be comfortable while they’re hugging you. Either that or have enough money to afford a private after hours tour (tickets are within the range of 350 EUR/person). If you feel…
You know those times when you build up your expectations about something for a very long time and when it finally happens the reality doesn’t quite match to what you were hoping for? I have been wanting to see Pompeii ever since I was a kid and I saw this movie. I think it was…
From the beginning I want to make note that this is the first blog from a series that I will write in English. I have made numerous friends during my travels and me finally starting to lay down my thoughts in English seems like the more sensible thing to do than having them learn Romanian….