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Dear friends, as we told you recently, we spent the last months organizing the experiences made with you in the past years, adding new destinations and new tours “ready to book” when the pandemic era will end. Maybe you can’t book now, but no one, even the virus, can stop us to dream about your […]
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Dear friends, as we told you recently, we spent the last months organizing the experiences made with you in the past years, adding new destinations and new tours “ready to book” when the pandemic era will end. Maybe you can’t book now, but no one, even the virus, can stop us to dream about your […]
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Free quote, cancel with no questions. It’s our commitment. Contact us now! Dear friends, a difficult year for tourism ends, the most difficult in fact since we can remember. However, it was useful to us because we had the time to put in order all the wealth of experiences and information gathered in these intense […]
Nutritionists, cardiologists, and mothers all over the world are fighting a relentless battle against salt, considered, rightly or wrongly, one of the main enemies of our health. But, before continuing your war, stop for a moment to think how sad life would be without the delicious Pata Negra or San Daniele hams, Kalamata olives from […]
Sicily is Kaleidoscopic. The richness of this island manifests itself through architecture, art, culture, and obviously in the food. Expect nothing less than falling deep in love. Sicily in the Mediterranean sea The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. About 228 days of sunshine. Phoenicians, Greeks, Roman, the Baroque, arts, music, cuisine. 3 international airports […]
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This breathtaking pile of shining limestone dwellings is considered among the oldest cities in the world. But it’s Matera recent past that makes this place unique, explaining the rise of the town as a top tourism destination. Brief summarized recent history. Among the main events originating the renaissance of Matera, there are: 1945 – “Christ […]
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Dear guests, we are looking forward to 2021 and we know you want to travel and being in tour with us. Even if you are on the other side of the ocean, we really feel your fondness for us 🙂 What we are doing: We are watching closely the evolving of this situation, researching the […]
“Omnes viae Romam ducunt” Looking at it today the system of roads that crossed the Roman Empire in its greatest splendor, one is impressed by the capillarity and organization of the network. From Wales to Mesopotamia, from Crimea to the Atlas Mountains in Africa, this is what greatness looks like. An efficient road system that […]
Peka is trivially a large metal lid, which covers a pan of meat (or fish) and vegetables in, which cooks inside a fireplace. What may seem like a rudimentary type of oven is one of the tastiest and most succulent cooking we have ever tasted. We are in Croatia, in the presence of true masters […]
If you look at history, language and traditions it seems that Albania and Italy have very little in common. Albania is a Balkan land, overlooking the Mediterranean, imbued with Ottoman culture, and a disputed land for centuries. It seems that Albania shares with Italy just the Strait of Otranto (about 50 nautical miles). But if […]
Wandering for producers of Brandy, Marsala, Rum, but above all Madeira and Sherry, you will undoubtedly have come across barrels stacked like a pyramid. This very scenic arrangement of barrels is not a picturesque choice, but reveals one of the most fascinating and illuminating methods of aging wines. This winemaking technique allows for preserving the […]
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The olive trees in the Mediterranean. The main cultivars for the production of extra virgin olive oil, and table olives […]
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South Africa discovers Sardinia! The Change a Life Cycle Tour https://changealifecycle.co.za/ is an annual charity cycle tour to raise funds for crime prevention and youth development projects. This event started in 2008 in memory of Mike Thomson, a Computershare executive who was murdered at his family home in 2007 in South Africa. The 2019 location was […]
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What is the relationship between a culture and its language? If there is a Mediterranean culture, does a Mediterranean language exist? If on the one hand, it is true that the language, the codified language, represents a unifying factor of a culture and a population, on the other it is equally true that the language, […]
Cooperation is our main ingredient to realize great events Our season is almost complete and we’ve had many great guests, among them we’ve had Sir Richard Branson. We are writing about it today since it is the anniversary of our official involvement in the Strive Challenge event 2018 (www.strivechallenge.org) where a “group of entrepreneurs, thought […]
377 Project is an art project dedicated to Sardinia.
The artist is Sebastiano Dessanay, he will cross by bike every single town of Sardinia: 377 towns in 377 days. […]
Welcome back Richard and Barbara! Two years ago we’ve had a guest couple from NYC, that time we created a custom tour exploring west Sardinia. Well, long story short, that tour went so well they said: “That tour was the best holiday of our life, so we want to come back with you”. That is […]
Which is the best cycling area in Tuscany? The whole region offers great roads, food and a charming atmosphere, you can opt for a cycling itinerary covering many areas, or just relax and choose a cycling base in an alluring medieval village. […]
Which is the best cycling area in Sicily? We have an idea, but it’s difficult to choose when you have so many places to ride your bike. We loved cycling through the Baroque in the west, pedaling across the fields inland and climbing the sudden hills of the east.
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We drove along the whole Sicily clock wise, all of that along small countryside roads, checking the hotels, restaurants and experiences we’ll propose on our Sicilian tours.
We promise, creating an active tour it’s not an exactly relaxing holiday! […]
Dear friends, we are happy to share with you a project we’ve had on our heart since long time. More and more guests tell us that on our tours they’ve found emotions and fun, discovery and passion, and maybe they never had such a perfect experience. So we decided to give this passion the right […]
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