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 Association for Animal and Environment Protection (AIDAA) will be on patrol on Halloween, 31 October, to protect the country’s black cats…
In the fourth part of a series of interviews with those whose job it is to explain Italy to the world, Carol King speaks to Edward Pentin about his li…
The British Museum in London’s ‘Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum’ exhibition brings together over 250 objects from the two Roman cities, many…
Hollywood stars Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel were married in Puglia, southern Italy on the evening of Friday 19th of October.The wedding of sing…
As a comedian and blogger, Beppe Grillo is not what comes to mind when thinking of the leader of an Italian political party. Yet polls indicate his pa…
Carol King samples the tastes, sounds and smells of one of Sicily’s most popular festivals on the slopes of Mount Etna.
Autumn in Sicily brings with i…
Italian are being encouraged to abandon their cars and get out some flat shoes on 14 October to participate in the ‘1a Giornata Nazionale del Camminar…
Paris’ Louvre museum has rebuffed a request to allow the Mona Lisa to be displayed in Italy next year.Italian campaigners have collected more than 150…
Pope Benedict XVI is planning to set up a Papal Latin Academy to promote the use of Latin within the Catholic Church and the secular world.Italian pri…
The genius of Leonardo da Vinci is now revealed in the virtual world as his ‘Codex Atlanticus’ (Atlantic Codex) has been digitised.Leonardo’s largest…
Take six astronauts and instead of sending them into space take them underground is the philosophy of the European Space Agency (ESA). And where bette…
Giacomo Puccini’s opera ‘Madame Butterfly’ gets a makeover in London with ‘Finding Butterfly’ from cutting-edge opera-makers The Wedding Collective.…
Gastronomes from all over Europe are descending on the Piedmontese town of Alba to visit the White Truffle Fair that begins on 6 October.It is the 82n…
Monochrome outfits, Perspex bags and bold, geometric shapes hit the Milan catwalks during September’s Fashion Week in what seemed a throwback to the O…
In the third part of a series of interviews with those whose job it is to explain Italy to the world, Carol King speaks to Eric Reguly about his life…
The month of October sees Parma celebrate the anniversary of the birth of one of the province’s most famous sons, opera composer Giuseppe Verdi, with…
A pilot project making priests available to offer spiritual counselling at Rome’s Vatican Museums is being hailed as a success.The Catholic News Agenc…
Carol King explains what constitutes Italians’ most important ritual of the year – and it’s not a religious one.When September arrives in Italy Italia…
Sightings of a large exotic turtle at Rome’s Villa Doria Pamphili have caused unease among both visitors and experts.The 17th-century villa is surroun…
It’s confirmed: travellers love Italy more than anywhere else in the world. Readers of ‘Condé Nast Traveller’ voted Italy ‘Favourite Country’ in the l…