Travel Freak

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.

To learn how to ride as the Indians of America, there is no need to go far, thanks to a discovery by Tuscan friends Outdoorblog, Schwarzer Adler, which retrieves thoroughbred horses otherwise destined for slaughter. The horses are rieducati by David Bassi, one of the founders, according to the techniques of the Indians of America, learned at a young age from a native American, reaching to be installed without bite, reins, cavezza and saddle.

Anyone wishing to learn the mount of India has many options at the Centre: from “simple” learn to go on horseback without bite, with cavezza and longhina up to a “total”, where he teaches on their way to flock to recover its horse and mounted with the help of only one string. The association also organizes trips on horseback, strictly without bite and cost.

The center is located near the park of San Rossore in Pisa. The possibilities of accommodation are in the vicinity of the Centre in bed & breakfast or camping arrangement of which David will provide you with all the details. Otherwise you can look in accommodation centres in the park, offering accommodation at reasonable prices. To contact Schwarzer Adler, please write to call at 338 4580758.

I am not a big passionate mountain in the summer, as Mark I can imagine to ski without… But there is a place that has won my heart for the atmosphere, the absence of mass tourism, traditions that are kept jealously: in Alagna Valsesia. The country is the last you’ll find on the state 299, overlooking the river Sesia, set by the Monte Rosa, collects the story of an ancient population of Germanic origin, Walser that Alagna moved between the twelfth and thirteenth century.

During the summer in Alagna can do a lot of walks, as the path glaciologico to discover the evolution of a glacier along a path that winds into 8 stages reported. You can also opt for the discovery of architecture and traditions of Walser following the route of ‘eco museum, an open-air route between houses, churches, mills and furnaces of the community.

Some small things that made my stay magic: seeing the many prayers Tibetan hung outside the houses of the country sway in the wind, buying fresh milk milked just a few steps from the main square of the country and lunch at guglielmina refuge where one day I would like perhaps even stop to sleep (yes, almost 3000 meters high not only eat well but you can sleep at the hotel that once was the highest in Europe).