Travel with Locals

“Ragazzi .. L’ozio è molto importante .. Questo dolce far niente che practicamo tanto chi nello sud dall’Italia ..!” Smiling, I can…

Capri. My first association is a drink. No kidding! As kids, we loved having our “Capri Sun” juice, which tasted…

Skiing in late April?! Ain’t nothing more beautiful for a passionate skier like me .. In Austria, this means heading to the…

Bella Italia. I just had to fall in love. 🙂 “But what were you thinking, Elena?”, my friends were teasing…

“Welcome back home, Elena.” The man sitting next to me on the plane bound for the “Mother City” smiles. We have…

Johannesburg. Some six years ago, when I was first visiting the South African capital city, I honestly did not make…

Seven days of pure South Africa. Altogether, we would have travelled more than 30.000 kilometres, spent hundreds more in jeeps &…

Porto. No longer do I feel like a visitor there. Rather, like a “temporary citizen“. “Bem-vinda em casa, Elena!”, my…

The “most beautiful dead-end in the world”: After travelling to Kleinwalsertal, I found it again in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel. A…

“During summer, we throw up a BBQ and our guests say, ‘Hang on Maria, and look: The stars. So many…