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The Dunes of Piscinas: The Desert the Wind Keeps Rewriting
Sardinia's "little Sahara" is really a living coastal dune system, still reshaped by the mistral, fronting a seven-kilometre beach and backed by...
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The Magnalonga di Dorgali (Sardinia): Walking, Eating, and Reading a Landscape
A food-and-wine walk through the Supramonte: nine stops, centuries-old olive groves, prehistoric fairy houses carved into the rock, dozens of suckling pigs...
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Gorropu Gorge (Sardinia): Italy’s Deepest Canyon, and How to Actually Tackle It
Walls over 500 metres high, a vanished seabed full of fossils, and a flower that grows almost nowhere else. Gorropu is one...
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The Spanish Riding School: Vienna’s Lipizzaners, and the Question Underneath the Spectacle
Grown men in tailcoats persuade very expensive white horses to hop, and people have been paying to watch for four and a...
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Michelangelo Buonarroti, the total artist (and his real torments)
Not the schoolbook saint, not the fridge magnet logo. A long, honest guide to Michelangelo from Florence 1475 to Rome 1564: sculpture,...
Art
Visiting the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence: Beyond Michelangelo’s David
To most visitors the Accademia is the David museum, and they devote ninety percent of their time to a single statue. That...
Art
Michelangelo’s Prigioni at the Galleria dell’Accademia: The Unfinished Slaves of an Impossible Tomb
Most tourists walk past Michelangelo's Prigioni to photograph the David. They are walking past the proto-modern manifestos of Renaissance sculpture.
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The David by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Borghese Gallery, Rome): the moment before, frozen in marble
Stand before Bernini's David at the Borghese Gallery and see how a 23-year-old redefined sculpture, capturing the split second before the stone...
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The Magnalonga di Dorgali (Sardinia): Walking, Eating, and Reading a Landscape
A food-and-wine walk through the Supramonte: nine stops, centuries-old olive groves, prehistoric fairy houses carved into the rock, dozens of suckling pigs...
Food
Girotonno (Carloforte, Sardinia): a local tuna fair and a missed opportunity
A wasted opportunity dressed up as a festival. Carloforte sits on an extraordinary fish, a unique Ligurian-in-Sardinia history, and one of the...
Food
Aurea Osteria Contemporanea, Cagliari. I have never written a review this enthusiastic.
A Cagliari seafood omakase where poor fish becomes extraordinary, local ingredients are used with genuine passion and intelligence, and sixty euros buys...
Food
Breakfast in Bologna near the train station: Forno Brisa
Forno Brisa in Bologna, near the central train station: excellent viennoiserie, specialty coffee and a formidable marketing machine. An honest review between...
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Diving
Scuba Diving Travel Guide: How to Choose the Right Diving Destinations Worldwide
Scuba diving travel isn’t a tropical holiday with colorful fish. It’s currents, logistics, risk management, and smart decisions. If you actually want...
Diving
Diving in the Maldives: Everything You Need to Know
Diving in the Maldives: if you want to wake up to ABBA playing in the background while whale sharks cruise below you,...
Diving
Garmin inReach vs Nautilus Lifeline: Which Diving Beacon Do You Need?
EPIRB, PLB, GPS Locators. The Safety Devices for Diving That Can Save a Diver’s Life When Lost at Sea
Diving
Is scuba diving dangerous? Awareness and management
How dangerous is scuba diving? A factual look at decompression sickness, drowning risk, shark encounters, equipment failures, and how to manage them...
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The Dunes of Piscinas: The Desert the Wind Keeps Rewriting
Sardinia's "little Sahara" is really a living coastal dune system, still reshaped by the mistral, fronting a seven-kilometre beach and backed by...
Travel
The Magnalonga di Dorgali (Sardinia): Walking, Eating, and Reading a Landscape
A food-and-wine walk through the Supramonte: nine stops, centuries-old olive groves, prehistoric fairy houses carved into the rock, dozens of suckling pigs...
Travel
Gorropu Gorge (Sardinia): Italy’s Deepest Canyon, and How to Actually Tackle It
Walls over 500 metres high, a vanished seabed full of fossils, and a flower that grows almost nowhere else. Gorropu is one...
Travel
The Spanish Riding School: Vienna’s Lipizzaners, and the Question Underneath the Spectacle
Grown men in tailcoats persuade very expensive white horses to hop, and people have been paying to watch for four and a...
Travel
Asinara (Sardinia): The Island That Was a Prison, and So Stayed Intact
For over a century Asinara was a place of confinement: a leper hospital, a POW camp, the maximum-security prison that held Totò...
Food
Girotonno (Carloforte, Sardinia): a local tuna fair and a missed opportunity
A wasted opportunity dressed up as a festival. Carloforte sits on an extraordinary fish, a unique Ligurian-in-Sardinia history, and one of the...
Food
Aurea Osteria Contemporanea, Cagliari. I have never written a review this enthusiastic.
A Cagliari seafood omakase where poor fish becomes extraordinary, local ingredients are used with genuine passion and intelligence, and sixty euros buys...
Food
Breakfast in Bologna near the train station: Forno Brisa
Forno Brisa in Bologna, near the central train station: excellent viennoiserie, specialty coffee and a formidable marketing machine. An honest review between...