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Category Archives: curiosity

Curiosities and news, suggestion for travel (also for free), unusual places to visit, from the ghost towns to the disappeared islands, amazing stories of travel, by bicycle, by foot, donkey, horse back or canoa.

Mother bear and her cubs on California’s beach

Watch now the video of a unique and exciting encounter: a mother bear and her two cubs are swimming in the lake close to the tourists! The lucky ones who were in California, on the beach of Lake Tahoe, the first days of August, were able to attend a unique and truly unexpected event. The […]

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The most beautiful beaches of Italy

21.582 bathing sites throughout Europe and 5.518 only in Italy: between the inland lakes and the sea coasts, Italy is just a dream destination for our summers, given that 95% of bathing waters were judged good or excellent by the European Environment Agency. In the interactive map of Europe made by the agency the red […]

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Why travel is good for you

We should all devote our time to discover the world: traveling makes us happy, makes us better person, it gives us wellness and makes us more open to the rest of the world. It is something natural, which is part of us and that satisfies us. Whoever said that “travel is the only thing you buy […]

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Developing our emotional intelligence by traveling

The man is not only reason. A sphere of our intelligence is the ability to recognize and understand their own emotions and those of others, the ability to empathize and relate to themselves and to others: it’s the emotional intelligence. Also called Emotional Quotient, it helps us to make decisions, it favors us in the […]

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Cycling among the stars in Netherlands

In Netherlands, the artist Daan Roosegaarde has created a truly magical cycle path, which is inspired by the famous and wonderful painting “Starry Night” by Van Gogh. Right in the places where the painter lived, along the cycle path that winds through the region of North Brabant, joining the house where he was born and the town of Nuenen, where […]

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Rotterdam, a floating forest to save trees

Our cities are constantly changing: the streets make way for new cycle paths, squares are renewed, and we build new parking lots. And with all this works, many trees are destroyed. In Rotterdam this will not happen again. The cultural association Mothership has created an innovative project with a great environmental value: the Bobbing Forest, a small floating forest […]

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Water is happiness

And if there was a link between our mind, our well-being and water? This is the starting point of the wonderful book by Wallace J. Nichols, a Californian marine biologist, that has collected statistics, studies, experiments and new discoveries in neuroscience that tell of a close link between water and happiness. Blue Mind reveals, through […]

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The winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize

They were awarded a few months ago and we had to talk about them. The six winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2016 are amazing people, the modern heroes, who devote their lives to the preservation of the planet. The prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize award was founded in 1990 and is almost like an ecology […]

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Photovoltaic: Italy is the first in the world

Italy is so many things, and it is also a crowd of people who believe in a better future, more just and clean for the future generations. And this Italy fight for it, arriving there where the institutions still aren’t. So, despite the few incentives for the installation of photovoltaic, Italy is first in the world […]

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Orange Fiber: our clothes from oranges

Take two Sicilian women and a brilliant idea: thus Orange Fiber, the startup that dreams and creates a sustainable and ethical fashion. They are Adriana Santanocito and Enrica Arena and they were able to see and then create a fabric where others saw only an orange. The start-up develops sustainable and innovative fabrics combining oranges […]

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