Category: Around the World

Everything and anything from around the world of travel

Paris will always be Paris!

parisian sweets window

Spoken and over spoken but no one ever gets tired of talking about Paris.
Walking yourself exhausted around those parisian streets, with those magnificent buildings, windows, flower stalls that only in Paris you can find, bringing color to the coolest or rainiest of days.
French patisserie? Chocolaterie? Boulangerie? In Paris you can go foodie crazy no doubt.
What I love the most about traveling to Paris is the certainty of always finding tradition and reassurance where you left last time you’ve visited.
Old places. New ones too.
Paris is always Paris!

tour eiffel
sunset paris
liberté égalité fraternité
bistro marrais
place des vosges fountain
place des vosges arcs
place des vosges fall
parisian beauty
parisian street art
notre dame
musee d'orsay
louvre & pyramid
parisian buildings II

 

parisian book shop

 

parisian doors

parisian metro
Egg & Co.
parisian onion soup
parisian gluttony
parisian sweets

The Egyptian Museum in Turin

shabits - around the Egyptian Museum

Following a major outstanding refurbishment in the last two year,
the Egyptian Museum in Turin, second most important in the world after motherland Cairo City is looking just grand.
Here are some images and glanced videos from the inside as a quick teaser. Worth the visit whenever you are in Turin.
And if that happens to be during Terra Madre Salone del Gusto 2016 edition coming up on September 22nd til the 26th, the museum has a series of workshops, exhibition, conferences and two special tours dedicated to 4 thousand years of food history iin such important civilization. Visite their website for more information

shabits - around the Egyptian Museum

shabits - around the Egyptian Museum

shabits - around the Egyptian Museum

shabits - around the Egyptian Museum

aroung Egyptian Museum - food and habits

Fattoria di Statiano

pool-statiano

A little family farm in the Maremma region of magical Tuscany that has been transformed in an Agritourism. They have horses, cats, chickens. They produce their own wine. Tina, the host, makes a mean seasonal fruit jam. Breakfast at Statiano is the best pampering to start off your day. Actually after having watched the sunrise. Totally worth waking up at 5:50/6am for such experience.
I did stay in one of the small houses where I had my own, fully equiped kitchen, which is always handy when you want to make a quick bite during the day, some italian coffee to brew in a vintage moka or even cook your owm meal. It was called Tiburzi. All rooms, small apartments and houses have a name. Tina and Paolo (her partner and host as well) cook and serve dinner upon request. They are delicious, very on the comfort side idea of a tuscan meal. Never without a glass of vin santo and some crunchy cantucci to wrap up your dinner time.
They are dog friendly. They have a swimming pool. There is an unbelivable silence. Only nature chats to you.
The location, Pomarance, is perfect to access Volterra, the sea side and beautiful drives to reach San Giminiano and Siena.
It was all I needed. Peace & quiet with some small adventures in between. Some days I didn’t even leave the farm. Books, sun, good food and amazing blue sky kept me company.
I can’t wait to visit Tina & Paolo at Fattoria di Statiano again very soon!

 

cantucci-and-vin-santo-statiano

cat-by-the-window

food shopping

grapes-statiano

horses-statiano

piazza-volterra

pool-statiano

road-to-statiano

statiano-casa-pranzo

statiano-casa

sunrise

sunrise sept

sunrise sept II

tiburzi-house-statiano

vendemia-statiano

taste of tuscany

Statiano wine

grapes at Statiano

Sunset Tuscany

Fattoria di Statiano
56045 Micciano,
Pomarance (PI) Tuscany
Tel.: +39 0588.61153
Cel.: +39 338.5057879
Fax: +39 0588.61153
E-mail: info@agriturismostatiano.com