This hosting with couchsurfing is a verbatim account of the oddities that have happened to me in meeting people through the international platform that connects travelers and hosts willing to host. I specify that I use it mostly to meet someone from the place I am visiting, without sleeping over. I have not hosted anyone […]

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Wrong Travel Companions is a verbatim account of a series of case histories of wrong company, at least for me. The tobacconist, the cheapskate, the quarrelsome, the souvenir hunter, the selfie-taker, and the one who walks around with dirty underwear in his hand: here is a roundup of anecdotes taken from different trips. Above all, […]

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In The Worst Journey of My Life Part 2, I obviously pick up the story I had interrupted in Part 1. In these two podcasts I tell in my own voice about the traveling oddities that happened to me in Cuba. I reiterate that the culprits were us who went clueless and careless. In particular […]

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The Worst Trip of My Life is a verbatim account of the traveling oddities that happened to me in Cuba. This is the first part because there are so many things to tell and they didn’t all fit in one installment. Specifically in this part I recount the preamble up to the misdeed that happened […]

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I made many sympathetic encounters on the trip to Iran, here is the verbatim account. Being on the trip alone perhaps benefited me because of that. I must also say that Iran is a beautiful country with many things to visit. Please note the audio is in Italian. Click below to listen to the episode. […]

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Adventures in Thailand and Cambodia is according to the verbatim account of the oddities in travel that happened to me during the trip I took to those countries in July 2015. In particular, here I talk about what happened to me in In the first podcast where I talk about this journey, I anticipated that […]

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Sleeping in a tent in the desert was one of the highlights of my trip to Jordan. Watching the starry sky in the desert, a Bedouin cat on my belly was the icing on the cake. But the best moment of the trip was when I reached the so-called Monastery in Petra. In front of […]

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Experiences in Romania, each time disasters is a verbatim account of the traveling oddities that happened to me during my time in Romania. I went twice, in November 2011 and September 2024, always for long weekends. The first time I was in pairs, while the second time I was solo. Please note the audio is […]

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Meanwhile, in Saharan Africa….is the verbatim account of travel oddities that happened to me on several trips to North Africa. In particular I recount incidents that happened to me in Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco. Since they were all fairly short and mostly uneventful trips, I put all the oddities together. Please note the audio is […]

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New Year’s Eve Celebration in the Desert is a verbatim account of the travel oddities that happened to me in Oman. Specifically I went in December 2022 for 9 days, solo and rented a car. Three of those days, however, I spent in the United Arab Emirates, and for those there is already this podcast […]

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