Travels and good intentions for 2014

I want to dedicate the first post of 2014 to what lies ahead for this new year... I speak in the plural because, by now, we are a bit like a big family and we move forward together: I write about my own experiences and you read (hopefully with pleasure) my stories. The events for this year are really a lot and I'm very happy. As for the destinations in Europe, the ideas are many and those that have taken shape, or are substantially taking it, are three: The first goal in the old continent will be Berlin. I'm going there in March and it's only the first trip of the year to be confirmed: flight and hotel are already booked and I can not wait to leave. For too many years I have said that you want to visit Berlin and, finally, the moment has arrived. Another goal that is getting closer is a journey in Dublin. I do not know the dates yet, but the itinerary is ready and will be the destination of my summer holidays! It is another city that I want to see for a long time, and I decided to go this year, possibly in late June, early July. I will keep you updated and if you have suggestions recommended to me as well! There is also the idea of ​​going to see Prague, braving the cold : the idea is to go in the Czech capital on New Year's Eve 2015 (Yes, I decided long time before... I know it). Maybe I come back to London... (I know not that I love this city , right?) In the middle of these European trips there will be many others trips in Italy: I will spend, at the end of January , two days in Abruzzo. When it gets a bit ' warmer and the days will be longer , I'm going to walk through the "SnowWhite forest" (I find that is in the Tuscia thanks to a National Geographic's article). I have a gift box to use (but I will talk about it further), and probably I'll use it to go somewhere in the region of Marche, a region that I have never visited. There would also be many other places that I would like to see and visit , but I would avoid to make an endless list of places: we are not here to do your shopping list ! I hope I can still give many useful tips for traveling ... What do you say , you will be traveling with me this year?

A year-end walking between stations in London

We arrived at the end of this year.. The sums of the'll pull through April, when the blog will celebrate its (first) three years of life: numbers, visits, visitors, inquiries and requests, I will assess all the next "blog birthday". Over the past two years (and a half) I've leaved and returned many times. Often I went by train, a way of travel that I discovered during these years. I traveled by trains in Italy, England and in other European countries. Today, in this post, the last one of 2013, I wanted to take you around in some of the main train stations in London. The train stations, after all, are not just places "where you take a train, perhaps running to not lose it". Train stations are places of passage, in where many people meet and collide leaving or returning. Those are places where people greet each other, only to find themselves a few days later... Or even after months In a train station there are a lot of people waiting for a train or waiting for someone (who knows, maybe boyfriend or girlfriend), or run in order not to lose it. I often pass through these buildings, strange places out of time. Places of thoughts and feelings that you are unable to stop. And, after all, during the last two years (and a half) have been years of train takend and missed, expectations in deserted stations. Years of books read in those long waits and views that ran beside me between one station and another. The stations in London are special: they are not old, but even modern. They are "half and half" , the buildings of the past, the first ones, have been updated, systematic, and integrated with new more modern parts. this makes them special, almost enigmatic