Carnivale di Venezia!

Fabulous, Mysterious, Vivid, Marvelous, and Over the Top Fun – you cannot get enough adjectives to describe this millennia-long tradition that survived all the miseries of the Continent history and still going unabated. Continue reading “Carnivale di Venezia!”

Spiga and Spaghetti – Rome, Milan and the New Year Italiano

In my opinion, the most exciting part of travel is observing local customs and ways of life and comparing it to what we have at home. Nowadays we live in a global village with day to day routines become more and more similar across the spaces but where the uniqueness still can be found is how people celebrate their holidays. To spend a New Year in Italy – that idea was always tempting, the curiosity persisting. True or false – do Italians throwaway goods, furniture, calendars to the point you have to watch out for the object flying from the windows on the New Year night? Turned out to be false – we did not see anything like that at least in the area we’d been. True or false – the prominent dish of Italian New Year dinner is lentil? Turned out to be a truth! The Italians believe it brings the luck and prosperity. On the New Year, a restaurant treated us with a complimentary lentil dish. Myths or reality – Italy is always bellissimo, especially during the holidays, our trip was intense but exciting and here is the report. Continue…