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 mothers are helping British university students learn how to cook this autumn after a study showed 78% can’t boil an egg, and half struggle to…
Residents, including pensioners, of Castrovalva in L’Aquila, Abruzzo have made a video of themselves performing Donna Summer’s ‘Hot Stuff’ in an effor…
The Caffetteria Torinese in Palmanova, Udine has won Illy’s Bar Of The Year Award.The awards were held in Rome and, at the same event, Caffetteria Tor…
As the world gets ready to celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas, Carol King visits Genoa’s Galata Museum of the…
Florence’s Corridoio Vasariano (Vasarian, or Vasari, Corridor) has installed 127 self-portraits by both Italian and foreign 20th- and 21st-century art…
Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Codex on the Flight of Birds’, possibly one of the world’s most famous notebooks, is on show at the Smithsonian’s National Air an…
A British film adaptation of the Romeo and Juliet love story debuts in cinemas across the USA and UK on 11 October 2013. The Oscar-winning creator of…
Massimo Bottura and Gianfranco Vissani are Italy’s top chefs according to the latest version of the Gambero Rosso gastronomical guide.
Bottura is che…
Italian-born Luca Manfè has won the title American MasterChef on the Fox reality TV series.
Manfè was victorious in the fourth season of the show, wh…
The discovery of a Leonardo da Vinci portrait of Renaissance noblewoman Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, in a Swiss bank vault has stunned art exp…
There may not be 50 shades of Italian colours but there are more than you might think. Carol King reports on some of the colours that have a very spec…
Statue of Tiberius, Roman, A.D. 37, Bronze, 96 7/8 in. (246 cm) high. Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei – Museo Arche…
Carol King examines some of Pope Francis’ favourite things as revealed in a recent interview and discovers many of them are Italian.
Pope Francis’ lov…
Apple and Italy’s Istituto Luce-Cinecittà are launching an iTunes channel dedicated to Italian films. The Italian Ministry of Culture’s director gener…
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Italian archaeologists have unearthed the tomb containing the skeleton of what experts believe is an Etruscan prince, who died ap…
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Plans to build a 422-mile cycle path in northern Italy are closer to fruition after Italy’s Minister for Culture and Tourism, Mas…
Italian sheep “rebelled” when police swooped on a patch of land where the flock grazed on more than just green grass: the land was also used to cultiv…
In the picture: "Judith Slaying Holofernes" (c. 1620) by Artemisia Gentileschi
A round up of some of the exhibitions in the USA featuring Italian ar…
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The Istituto del Gelato Italiano (Italian Ice-Cream Institute) has announced the Green Express project to transport ice cream by…
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Gardening is a growing passion among Italians - and if they do not have a garden, they indulge their passion in whatever space is…