How far can we go with Photoshop?

15 Nov 2020 / yourtravelrecipes / 2 Comments

Although I understand there is an Art behind graphic design, I believe it should be limited to minimal adjustments when photos are concerned. From my point of view, an excessive digital manipulation of a picture turn a place or a landscape into a destination which does not exist and makes our expectations grow beyond reality.

Autumn in Torino

28 Oct 2020 / yourtravelrecipes / 2 Comments

Torino is nowadays the third or fouth largest city in the Country (depending if you consider the hinterland or not) and underwent a dramatic and successful change in the past 20 years, turning its local economomy from industry based to tourism based after the XXth Winter Olympics, held in the city in 2006.

The impact of the pandemic. Interview with a Travel Agent

15 Oct 202016 Oct 2020 / yourtravelrecipes / 2 Comments

As we are currently undergoing a secon wave of the Covid outbreak globally, I felt it is good to allow a professional Travel Agent to speak it's voice and let us know what we can all expect in the near future

Travelling is like finding precious stones

23 Sep 2020 / yourtravelrecipes / Leave a comment

When thinking about travelling, each place has a value. Be it big or be it small, it's just up to our perception of it and how much it impacted on out lives. Therefore I decided to pair precious stones to each continent, based on my personal perception of them. It's not a scoring of possible travel destinations but the impressions I got after exploring quite a big portion of this planet.

The Flight of the Angels at Victoria Falls

19 Sep 2020 / yourtravelrecipes / 4 Comments

I have been to Victoria Falls twice, in 2016 and 2019. Both times I experienced one of the most powerful shows of nature. However in 2019 the whole Zambezi River basin suffered quite a serious drought, and the volume of water dropping down into the gorge was quite low.

Who suffered the most from travel restrictions?

17 Sep 2020 / yourtravelrecipes / Leave a comment

As many of you I spent the last few months wondering if there was a place I could visit with a certain degree of safety which also was not subject to specific travel restrictions.