Travel Freak

Good news for fans of lowcost travel, for Ryan and loyal users for connoisseurs of the capital who live near the Adriatic coast. As of Tuesday, October 28 from Federico Fellini of Rimini take off the new flights that Ryanair has turned to ensure a link between London Stansted and Romagna: in the day Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday (date useful for granted a long weekend land in English) will start from at lunch (12.40) and from England at breakfast (9.05).

The cost of tickets? For example, if you want to celebrate Halloween in London, you can start on Thursday 30 October at 12.40 from Federico Fellini arriving at Stansted at 13.55 and return to Italy Tuesday, Nov. 4, landing at 12.15.

If you happen to go on the site of Ryanair certainly be able to take off a curiosity: why the plane takes one hour and 55 to rise in London (12.40 - 13.55) and three hours and 10 falling to Rimini ( 9.05 - 12.15), perhaps there is a call not reported?

Here, on Mount Amiata, the crossroads of some of the most beautiful parts of Tuscany (Maremma, Val d’Orcia and Val di Chiana), once it was to sweat, in the forests and mines, and shortly we could devote to the beauties of a mountain that has much to offer. Today the mine is closed, but the mountain, and large forests that surround it, are still the destination of travel, fortunately more pleasant, since you are here for skiing, walking, trekking or mount bike, or simply to restore the stress by going to mushroom.

For Abbadia San Salvatore, the country more share of Mount Amiata, is the Hotel Milano, a three-star hotel, where its owners, Vania and Luke, welcome their guests, giving a reception full of care and courtesy , The legacy of a family tradition that has been going on for half a century. And then, in full in October, you can take advantage of their offer, Autumn Festival, which for two consecutive weekends, proposing the autumn colors of beloved, in full board at prices that start at 124 euros (2 days).

The autumn festival is a celebration Amiata where trade exhibitions and antiques market, alternate with photographic exhibitions and antique tools, games and popular way for artists to musical entertainment, all seasoned with the inevitable gastronomic stand, and enhanced by the possibility to take part in guided tours in search of mushrooms and chestnuts.

I live on the coast south Roman, before the sack of Rome by the palazzinari, was to be a masterpiece. Be that as it may (now gone) we fear the local bridges early spring, and especially that of 1 May, when fall Romans Tormo of the coast, clean by the winter storm surges (and for some years also by the municipal) and dirty , Soiled, insozzano, pollute everything you can get dirty, dirty, insozzare, pollute (and if I’m generalizing I do consciously and with full knowledge of the case).

Even with these dirty and uncivilized turned in his speech Sunday when Pope Benedict XVI reminded once again that tourism should become responsible, and therefore must be respectful of the environment and local cultures, in short, the Pope is fighting for a responsible and sustainable tourism. The beach in photography, equal to all the soiled beaches in the world, is to Antalia in Turkey.

Amazon region of Alta Forest, State of Mato Grosso, Brazil. These are the coordinates of which, along with 37 other companies, won the World Savers Award 2008 of the magazine Conde Nast Taveller. His name is Cristalino Jungle Lodge and is the only reality in South America to have received this award, thanks to its private nature reserves (over 7 thousand hectares) and the fact of being “an oasis of environmental protection, in harmony with Forest, where the observation of birds takes place in the heart of nature. An excellent example of accountability and environmental sustainability that has caught the attention of one of the publications of tourism most prestigious in the world.

Not only is the Cristalino would be inserted into the surrounding well, but this hotel would contribute significantly to preserve the ecosystem of the region. A hotel built for betting on the possibility of doing eco-tourism in Brazil, when the north of Mato Grosso was not even considered a tourist destination.

The Cristalino Jungle Lodge began its activities in 1992 and supports scientific research projects and education programs on environmental proposes excursions that include, among other things, the observation of birds and butterflies, the paths of ecotourism and adventure tourism routes. One area of importance for the Brazilian tourism, which would help bring in major Latin American country about 20 percent of visitors each year crossing its borders.

If this summer you are to sail around the island of Pantelleria, is a popular stop for inclusion in the travel plan, the Garden Pantesco Donnafugata: dry stone walls in lava rock with the vineyards of Zibibbo grown to sapling and dammusi , Whites and blacks to the bottom of lava that seem creations of the volcano. A gift that Sicilian wines, the company’s decision to make, last Sept. 12, the Italian Fund for the Environment, recognizing the Make a “sensitivity and authoritative primary responsibility for the protection and preservation of natural heritage.

Pantesco The garden, located in the village Khamma, is an example of agricultural technology and architecture that can grow fruit and a citrus tree, often connected with three different varieties, in a context dominated by extreme wind and drought. A centuries-orange variety of Portugal is un’ingegnosa “factory of vitamins”, which demonstrates how the ancient techniques were able to tackle problems such as scarcity of food and water. Only a few hundred panteschi gardens on the island have resisted time and degradation, but many of them are still in a state of abandonment: a condition, which in recent decades has also affected large portions of vineyards that once almost 4500 hectares.

The garden pantesco is inserted in an integrated also allows you to discover, from vineyard to cellar, the entire production process of Ben Rye (the passito of Pantelleria produced by Donnafugata). To book a visit to the garden, open daily from 9.30 am, during July, August and September, you must contact the canteen of a Donnafugata Khamma.