{"id":14448,"date":"2020-04-15T21:04:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/?p=14448"},"modified":"2021-03-16T09:04:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T08:04:23","slug":"always-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arttrav.com\/it\/always-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Italy: Armchair Traveling While the World is on Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTravel is always a leap of faith into new worlds: 20 of them in Italy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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While we can\u2019t travel, author Frances Mayes and travel journalist Ondine Cohane<\/strong> team up, with a little help from National Geographic<\/strong>\u2019s photo archive, for a dream-inducing book that reminds you that Italy is\u2026 Always Italy<\/em><\/a><\/strong>. And although you cannot visit us here, now, Italy will always be waiting for you. In some ways unchanged for thousands of years, in others, touched by every moment she has seen, including this one. When you come back, she will be a little different \u2013 we all will be. But she\u2019ll be charming in every way.<\/p>\n

Having moved to Italy just over twenty years ago, I\u2019ve traveled a lot in this country<\/strong>. I often find that while there is much of the world left to explore, there is always something fascinating to visit closer by. There are a few stones I\u2019ve left unturned \u2013 Calabria, the islands of Sicily, Abruzzo \u2013 but soon enough I\u2019ll find time to visit every region.<\/p>\n

Mayes and Cohane\u2019s book takes you on an immersive tour from North to South \u2013 not \u201cvirtual tours\u201d that are no more than glorified videos, but the old fashioned way, where from the smell of paper emerges the odour of pizza, or lavender, or the fresh mountain air of the Trentino if you let your imagination run. Thinking myself immune to the beauty of this country after so many years, I am quickly proven wrong<\/strong>, and every page turned adds another line to my \u201cmust see when we get out\u201d list.<\/p>\n

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