Carol King
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Carol King spends her time between Sicily and London. She has been a journalist and writer for 30 years and a freelance for more than 20 years. Carol loves travel and has visited 36 countries - so far. Her appetite for travel has seen her track gorillas in Uganda, climb Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka, visit salt mines in Poland and puff cigars in Cuba. Outside of the UK she has lived in Buenos Aires, Madrid and Modica, Sicily. After more than 20 years as a technology journalist editing various titles and writing for newspapers including the Wall Street Journal Europe, The Guardian and Daily Telegraph, now Carol writes mainly on travel, art, architecture, film and history for books, magazines and websites. She has written about travel for TheTravelEditor.com, Frommer’s, Volotea Airline and 1001 Escapes, as well as Destinations Travel, Destination Weddings, Psychologies and Discover magazines. Carol also does guest slots on the BBC radio show Mondo Italiano and Australia’s Rete Italia. She loves Sicily: its nature, architecture, sun, sea, food and, most of all, its people.
Articles by Carol King
After the romance of Saint Valentine’s Day, some lucky people’s hearts and minds may turn to nuptials. Brescia’s Musei Mazzucchelli celebrate the art…
The Museum of Rome at Palazzo Braschi is hosting a major exhibition featuring one of Italy’s most famous sculptors ‘Canova: The Sign of the Glory. Dra…
Carol King explains what will happen after Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation and the reasons behind it.
Newspaper ‘Il Sole 24 Ore’ has reported that Po…
BBC’s Radio 3 will broadcast all of Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi’s operas this year to celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth.Radio 3’s ‘Ver…
The Italian notion of la bella figura, or looking good, stretches back to the Ancient Roman times – or so it would seem thanks to recent research that…
Carol King highlights what to look out for as Italy unites to sing Verdi in 2013.
Italy and the world are honouring the 200th year of the birth of Ro…
The story of a cat that visits his late owner’s grave daily has made the headlines in Italy.The ‘Corriere Fiorentino’ reports that a three-year-old, g…
Italy is staging its own version of the ‘The Full Monty’ musical comedy adapted to fit the hard times facing the country.Among the cast are Spanish ac…
picture credit Janet Stephens
The complex hairstyle worn by Ancient Rome’s Vestal Virgins has been recreated for the first time.
According to ‘Live…
Rome’s Torre Argentina Cat Sanctuary, which looks after some 250 stray cats, is fighting for its existence after receiving an eviction notice.
The La…
Sales of Italy’s popular chocolate and hazelnut spread, Nutella, grew last year as Italians looked to a way to soften the effects of the economic cris…
Carol King explains how the Italian electoral system works and looks at the main players in the forthcoming general election.The Italian general elect…
The Italian newspaper ‘Il Messaggero’ reports that several experts have identified a Caravaggio painting of St John the Baptist believed to have been…
It’s carnival time in Italy and with it comes the promise merrymaking aided by good food, crazy costumes, spooky masks, spectacular processions of flo…
To kickstart the bicentennial anniversary celebrations of Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi’s birth, London’s Royal Opera House in Covent Garden invite…
Steven Spielberg has told the Italian media that he has no interest in making a biopic about Silvio Berlusconi, but would like to work with Roberto Be…
Two Italian hotels feature in CNN’s pick of the world’s ‘Seven Breathtaking Clifftop Hotels’.‘CNN.com’, the website of the American broadcaster, selec…
Carol King admires a magnificent fresco cycle by the Brescian painter who foreshadowed Caravaggio.Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel in Vat…
Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida has pressed charges against her former companion, Spanish businessman Javier Rigau y Rafols, alleging that he staged…
Top wine title ‘Wine Enthusiast Magazine’ includes Puglia in Italy in its pick of the ‘10 Best Wine Travel Destinations 2013’.Each year, the American…