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
The Italian Supreme Court has ruled that there is “abundantly” clear evidence that a stray missile resulted in an Italian passenger plane crashing in…
picture courtesy of news.fsu.eduAn American classics professor has uncovered ancient grape seeds that could provide insight into Roman Chianti vineyar…
May 2013 marks the 50th anniversary when Italian industrialist Ferruccio Lamborghini founded Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini, the maker of the world’…
picture courtesy of archaeosoup.comArchaeologists have discovered a section of Roman road beneath York Minster in north England.York Minster is the la…
Marsala in Sicily has won European Wine City Competition 2013. The decision to award this prestigious title to Marsala was taken unanimously by the bo…
Madonna is planning to open a gym in the centre of Rome, across from the Colosseum Roman amphitheatre, this spring.The Italian-American pop star and a…
Carol King explains how she found out that Italy can be a cold place in winter.
When people think of Italy’s climate they conjure up images of blue sk…
Cellulite is the bane of many women’s lives, but thanks to researchers in Italy, they may soon be able to reduce the dreaded orange-peel-skin effect b…
Archaeologists have discovered an “exceptional” group of sculptures dating to the 1st century BC in a villa in the outskirts of Rome.The seven sculptu…
picture courtesy of 2.cnrs.frFrench and Italian archaeologists have found the location of the port that supplied Ancient Rome with wheat.France’s Cent…
‘The Da Vinci Code’ author Dan Brown has announced that his next novel will be set in the heart of Italy.Scheduled for release in North America on 14…
NASA scientists have beamed an image of the ‘Mona Lisa’ nearly 240,000 miles to a spacecraft at the moon, making a major breakthrough in laser communi…
Carol King interviews award-winning chef Alberto Crisci, who set up The Clink Charity in the UK.Fine dining in a prison sounds like a strange idea, bu…
London taxi cabs are known the world over for their distinctive shape and black colouring – and soon they will be made in Bari, Italy thanks to Britis…
There are plans to build an artificial atoll in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of the upmarket seaside resort of Riccione in Rimini, Emilia-Romagna.Kn…
Pope Benedict XVI’s personal secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, features on the cover of the Italian edition of ‘Vanity Fair’ magazine.The appearan…
Carol King selects her Top 5 must-see museums in Italy.Galleria degli Uffizi, FlorenceThe Uffizi Gallery is one of the oldest museums in the world. Ho…
Rome’s Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari (National Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions) is holding an exhibition that shows off Itali…
Experts believe they have discovered the location of the landscape shown in the ‘Mona Lisa’.Leonardo Da Vinci painted valleys, mountains, hills, a riv…
The Alta Badia ski resort in the Dolomites of South Tyrol in northern Italy is holding the Chef’s Cup Südtirol from 20 to 25 January.The event will se…