A love letter to culture, responsible tourism and slow travel
As I drive down to 400m below sea level, the landscape becomes drier and drier. The temperature rises and the stone desert looks like a hostile environment in which nothing ever grows or stays alive. I love those barren landscapes, a proof of the overpowering forces of nature. I am on my way to Continue Reading
“This is the place where Jesus met his mother on the way to the Cross” the shopkeeper explains to me.“And if you take the next street on your right, you can see where Pontius Pilate condemned Jesus to death”… I am standing on the “Via Dolorosa”, said to be the Continue Reading
Tel Aviv: to some people the name is synonym with wild nightlife and trendy clubs. Others still associate the place with the conflict of the Middle East… To me, it’s a place I had been dying to see for a very long time! I stayed one week in what is known as the most modern metropolis of Continue Reading
On a sunny Sunday morning, I leave the skyscrapers of Tel Aviv behind and head for the north of Israel, to a place that is home to a huge number of Bible Stories, to the homeland of Jesus Christ himself: Galilee. I was raised a Catholic and although I’m no longer religious, Continue Reading