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
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has lit the biggest Christmas tree in the world at Gubbio in Umbria.
Gubbio is a small medieval town at the base…
Respected British business newspaper the ‘Financial Times’ has voted European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi its ‘Person of the Year’.The n…
The Vatican has introduced a Pilgrim Kit for visitors to holy sites in Rome.The Pilgrim Kit has been launched by the pilgrimage arm of the Vicariate o…
The tunnels and Mithraeum temple underneath Rome’s Terme di Caracalla (Baths of Caracalla) have reopened to the public after 10 years of restoration w…
The latest edition of ‘Christmust’ is out. The prestigious publication features innovative Italian products and the year’s design success stories.Mana…
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti will resign after overseeing the Italian parliament pass the 2013 to 2015 budget and stability laws.The announcemen…
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 ritua…
Daniel Barenboim will open La Scala’s opera season tomorrow by conducting ‘Lohengrin’ by Richard Wagner while facing an onslaught of criticism in the…
A bridge designed in 1502 by Leonardo da Vinci will be built over the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey.Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said…
Rapper Jovanotti has moved from his native Italy to New York City for what he has described as a “period of study”.
Born Lorenzo Cherubini, Jovanotti…
Amateur treasure hunters in Britain unearthed 25,000 Roman artefacts in 2012.Armed with metal detectors, the treasure hunters in England and Wales fou…
New York City has ‘The Big Apple’ and now Rome has its official she-wolf thanks to an initiative by the city’s mayor, Gianni Alemanno.In line with oth…
The Museo del Vino (Wine Museum) in Barolo Castle, Piedmont has been donated what is thought to be the world’s largest and most valuable collection of…
British film director Ken Loach has turned down an award from the Turin Film Festival in a show of solidarity for fired film-museum workers.The 76-yea…
The latest ‘ViniBuoni d’Italia’ guide has given its top award, the Corona (Crown), to 275 wine labels that its experts declare the best wines of the y…
Carol King reports on how Benedictine monks in Norcia have revived the art of beer making.
Monks have always drunk beer and many popular craft beers…
Tourists in Rome and Venice can find out about the city’s hot spots from other travellers thanks to a service launched by Touristmap.net.Based in the…
American fast-food giant McDonald’s is reported to be suing the city of Milan for €24 million after it had to relinquish its outlet in an upmarket sho…
The Vatican Museums have unveiled a new permanent exhibition dedicated to papal travel since 1825.Housed in the Carriage Pavilion, the exhibition incl…
Want to visit a haunted house? Carol King reports on some of Italy’s most spine-chilling locations.
The arrival of Halloween on 31 October sets people…