The streets have been cleared, the twinkle lights are down: the holidays are officially over. For some, it has been a marathon, for others a sprint. When January rolls around,...

The rush of Christmas festivities have passed, and we are waiting for the year to come to an end. You may be on holiday, you may be at work, but somehow we all can feel a bit lost in these days! Here are a few ideas of how to give some direction to this Chrimbo Limbo - when slow-living seems to be everywhere.

Christmas in Verona is dominated by two things: Santa Lucia and the Christmas Markets (stay tuned for more on the latter next week)! December has arrived with a dusting of...

Black Friday has managed to make its way around the world in the last few years. It has even touched the small towns and cities of Italy! Everyone in Verona is waiting to pounce on the last sales before the Christmas rush. 

November is here. I always have felt that is an in-between month that you have just finished autumn, and it is too early to decorate for Christmas (unless you live in Blackpool… I have on good authority that people decorated the day after Halloween!). You have perhaps started to review your list (mental or physical) that you made 11 months ago: The New Years Resolutions.

Days are getting shorter, nights are getting colder. Autumn is that perfect time of year for taking that extra bit of time to cook something soothing for the soul. I love the change in season which brings all the abundance of the harvest vegetables!

So, I am biased, as October is my birthday month, but Autumn can be a hard transition for a lot of people. The days are getting shorter, the bed is...

Written by our guest blogger Carolene Méli

For the last 10 years I have lived on the road. At this very moment I consider my home to be a tiny storage unit in Bordeaux, France. My address is an eternal evolution of friends and family who put up with me asking permission to use their abode as my own. My world is a constantly changing universe of long flights, new cities, charismatic Airbnbs, old haunts and people passing through. I travel full time. I am always in a new place. I am a nomad. It is who I am.