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 island of Giglio in Tuscany held a memorial service on 13 January to mark the first-year anniversary of the cruise-ship disaster that killed 32 pe…
Acclaimed Italian tenor Fabio Armiliato will perform at London’s Wigmore Hall on 14 January as part of the Rosenblatt Recitals series.
Armiliato perf…
Tourists at Vatican City sites such as the Sistine Chapel are having to pay for transactions in cash or by cheque because the Bank of Italy has blocke…
The BBC is showing a new series, ‘Italy Unpacked’ featuring Italy’s history, culture, food, art and landscape starting 11 January.Hosted by British ar…
All of us at ‘Italy Magazine’ wish you a fantastico 2013. In 2012, we covered a slew of topical stories, and published many features, guides, recipes…
The Vatican has issued special stamps to help raise funds to restore the 17th-century colonnade surrounding St Peter’s Square.Pope Alexander VII commi…
The best sailors in the world will return to Naples from 16 to 21 April for the first America’s Cup World Series event of 2013.
Naples hosted the Ame…
Yahoo! Italia has released the top online word searches in Italy in 2012.The annual classification is an indicator of the times. It reveals ‘Grillo’ a…
Social-media intelligence company Blogmeter’s analysis of Italian regional tourist boards’ activity on Facebook and Twitter shows Italian tourism is e…
The New Year brings with it the Year of Italian Culture in the United States that celebrates the two countries’ common heritage and the future ahead.T…
The Sicilian capital will host Italian Gay Pride in June 2013.Italy’s leading LGBT association, Arcigay, selected the city to host the annual national…
The streets and landmarks of Rome will be the venue for a race in the new Formula E Championship in 2014.
Launched by the motorsport’s governing body…
Oscar-winning actress Penelope Cruz has become the 14th star to feature as the face of the world-renowned Campari Calendar.Titled ‘Kiss Superstition G…
On the 10 October 2013, the world celebrates the 200th year since the birth of Giuseppe Verdi. Opera houses worldwide will stage works by the Italian…
Italy has the highest number of hotels in the 2013 ‘Condé Nast Traveler’ Gold List of the best places to stay in Europe.‘Condé Nast Traveler’ is an Am…
At New Year’s Eve, many people will dress up and put on their dancing shoes as they head out to see in 2013. Some will have been inspired to learn to…
The Pope’s life story is set to hit the big screen in a movie adaptation.German company Odeon Film announced that it is planning the biopic with Germa…
The Vatican has cut the cost of the traditional nativity scene mounted every Christmas in St Peter’s Square to €21,800.The remaining €90,000 cost has…
Nativity scenes are popular in Italy and beyond, but the custom of holding a ‘presepe vivente’ (living crib), whereby people dress up as Mary, Jesus,…
Some of the most spectacular events staged during the Christmas and New Year holidays are the traditional torchlight skiing processions organised in t…