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
An art historian hailed as ‘Indiana Bones’ has cast light on centuries-old jewel-encrusted skeletons held in churches across Europe in his book ‘Heave…
Gondolas in Venice are to get GPS tracking systems, registration plates and reflective patches as part of a series of measures introduced in a bid to…
Italians around the globe can submit footage of their lives on 26 October 2013 to Italian TV’s RAI website for the ‘Italy In A Day’ social filmmaking…
The 2014 Giro d’Italia will start in Northern Ireland – it will be the 11th time the race has started outside Italy.The cycling race will begin on 9 M…
Renowned Italian chef Gualtiero Marchesi appears as an avatar in the Feed For Good video platform of recipes and tips for healthy eating.
Marchesi is…
Two years after Rome’s Teatro Valle theatre faced closure because of cutbacks, it remains open. Protesters took over the building and spawned a moveme…
Italians have sex more often than the global average and like to do it in the kitchen.
According to a survey conducted by Italian company Doxapharma,…
Artopoli, a new board game similar to Monopoly, has been released.The game for children and families debuted at Florence’s Villa Bardini. Artopoli is…
Italian singer Andrea Bocelli’s CD and DVD compilation ‘Love In Portofino’ will be released on 22 October 2013.
The new two-disc compilation highligh…
Italy’s iconic leaning Tower of Pisa has been mapped in 3D using a groundbreaking mobile laser technology.The tower’s cramped stairs and complex archi…
American company Organicares has created a “marijuana hazelnut spread” called ‘Nugtella’.A hazelnut spread infused with hash oil, Nugtella comes in a…
In the picture: Robert Powell, Colin Firth, Tom Conti and Sir Michael GambonA star cast of British actors and directors have recreated Leonardo da Vin…
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson are set to play themselves on holiday in Italy in a film, according to reports in the Ita…
Amateur cavers have discovered a network of tunnels underneath the Villa Adriana (Hadrian’s Villa) at Tivoli, near Rome.Experts suggest that the subte…
Carol King talks to acclaimed author of the Italian Renaissance Sarah Dunant about her novel on the Borgias and more.British author, broadcaster and c…
The statue in Verona portraying the character of Juliet Capulet from William Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy has been damaged by people rubbing it for…
The oldest man in the world is 111-year-old Arturo Licata, an Italian from Sicily.Arturo was born on 2 May 1902 in the Sicilian city of Enna, where he…
A 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO sold for US$52 million (£32 million) has become the world’s most expensive car.Bloomberg reports that the red classic Ferrari w…
A plan to close the Italian Consulate in Newark, New Jersey in March 2014 has sparked criticism.The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to shut…
In our series focusing on famous Italian families, Carol King looks at one of Italy’s most notorious: the Borgias.The Borgia family of the Renaissance…