The Curious Traveler

Travel
by Barry Lillie |
If you are one of those travellers that likes to find unusual and off-the-beaten-track places to visit, then be sure to take the 60-minute drive north from the…
Culture
by Katia Amore |
If Academy Award winner The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) made you long for a visit to Rome, we thought you might enjoy these pictures of the main…
Lifestyle
by Anonymous (not verified) |
In the spirit of San Valentino, the team at Facebook Data Science conducted a research last week - based on anonymized, aggregated data - to determine the best…
Lifestyle
by Anonymous (not verified) |
An overhead view of Mount Vesuvius captured by satellite is currently leading DigitalGlobe's satellite image contest, with more than 5,700 "likes" from…
Culture
by Carol King |
Italians around the globe can submit footage of their lives on 26 October 2013 to Italian TV’s RAI website for the ‘Italy In A Day’ social filmmaking project…
Travel
by Carol King |
Residents, including pensioners, of Castrovalva in L’Aquila, Abruzzo have made a video of themselves performing Donna Summer’s ‘Hot Stuff’ in an effort to…
Lifestyle
by Carol King |
words by Carol King The mayor of the Sicilian town of Modica in the province of Ragusa has ordered workers in charge of public toilets to wear traditional…
Lifestyle
by Carol King |
words by Carol King The Duchess of Cambridge has been getting cookery lessons from her new Italian housekeeper, Antonella Fresolone, according to ‘US Weekly’.…
Culture
by Carol King |
Siracusa in Sicily is usually associated with the Ancient Greeks and Romans, so I was surprised to find that it’s also home to the oldest Jewish ritual baths,…
Travel
by Heidi Fuller-love |
'See Venice and die', the saying goes, but when I visited last summer I thought I'd die in the crush . Not eager to repeat the experience, this summer I joined…