Francesco Di Nolfo
“It is inside of us that landscapes have landscapes. So, if I imagine them, I create them;
if I create them, they exist; if they exist, I see them… “
“Life and what we make of it. Journeys are the travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.” (Fernando Pessoa)
Welcome dear friends
My name is Francesco Di Nolfo and I was born in Agrigento, the town I currently live.
I love travelling so much and I do it whenever I can, always giving my best to organise every single trip in detail.
I am in love with former Soviet Union countries, in fact my trips are based on destinations that are sometimes little known and less touristy, which struggle to come out as places of interest.
Before each trip, I read a lot about places to visit, especially the stories of great bloggers. The aim is always to reach not only the main attractions, but also the more remote ones, which often turn out to be the most interesting.
I visit the big monuments, the main ones, the ones that make ‘headlines’ on the web; but, above all, I look for the most peculiar neighbourhoods and all those attractions, dare I say it, invisible to the tourist’s eye: in a nutshell, I try to experience the place where I am. Inside cities, rather than by taxi, I prefer to move around by tram, metro, bus and the means of transport of ordinary people, to feel part of that culture.
In addition to the big trips in Europe, mainly in the East, there is no shortage of motorbike trips at weekends, to discover the most hidden places of a Sicily that is beautiful to see and experience. After my first trip to PARIS, I went to PRAGUE, and it was a real thunderbolt, ‘living’ the history of that city. There in Prague, I can say, my blog was born. “Travelling East” I wanted to create this blog with a very unusual name, “Travelling Towards the East”, to keep a travel diary in which I could enclose and recount my experiences around the world, a world, the East, full of history, recounting and sharing them with those who would have the desire to read them.
My dream? The Trans-Siberian Railway.
