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
words by Carol King Italian fashion brands Gucci and Salvatore Ferragamo have recreated the 1970s’ glamour look for Oscar-winning American director Ro…
Germany is providing €10 million and a team of experts to help rescue Pompeii from decline. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Pompeii has attracted advers…
The 2013 Formula One Gran Premio d’Italia (Italian Grand Prix) starts on 6 September.
One of the longest running events on the Formula One calendar,…
Researchers at the University of Catania in Sicily are carrying out experiments to recreate Ancient Roman winemaking techniques.
The project is a col…
In the picture: Claudio Abbado
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has created four new Senators for Life.
As head of State, t…
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More than 500 pizzaioli (pizza makers) from 47 countries are assembling in Naples to compete in the "Campionato Mondiale del Pizz…
A museum dedicated to violins, music making and luthiers – including Antonio Stradivari and his family – is opening in Cremona in northern Italy.
Cre…
Pictured in the photo: Kelli, who saved his mistress from a landslide.
Thirteen Italian dogs received awards at an annual ceremony in San Rocco di Ca…
An Ancient Roman vessel has been discovered in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Liguria in northwest Italy. The ship dates to between the 1st ce…
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An iPad version of the hit recipe book “Pizza Pilgrims: Recipes from the Backstreets of Italy’ has been launched.
‘Pizza Pilgrims…
words by Carol King George Clooney made a splash when he arrived in Venice for the International Film Festival driving a water taxi along the lagoon t…
In the photo: "Bib" necklace, 1965. Gold with emeralds, amethysts, turquoise, and diamonds. Formerly in the collection of Lyn Revson. Bulgari Heritag…
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The site where one of the two Ancient Roman legions was based in Israel between 120 AD and 300 AD has been unearthed in Galilee,…
words by Carol King The mayor of the Sicilian town of Modica in the province of Ragusa has ordered workers in charge of public toilets to wear traditi…
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Archaeologists have located anchors off the Sicilian island of Pantelleria dating to the Punic Wars in the third century BC.
Thir…
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Two rare white donkeys have been born at a nature reserve in Perugia.
The albino donkey is a protected species native to the isla…
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A Sicilian pensioner opted for a strange anti-theft device: he put a coffin in his garden to warn off burglars.
The bizarre anti-…
Several seaside towns in Italy are banning people from wearing bikinis anywhere but the beach.
The move comes in an effort to restore a sense of digni…
The road around the Colosseum in Rome has been made into a pedestrian zone. The often congested Via dei Fori Imperiali road has been blocked to traffi…
A team of archaeologists, historians, engineers and experts in Christian antiquities have inaugurated an important archaeological site in Rome. The si…