emma neuvonen: Italy

Cinque Terre

8/11/2012

When I was a kid, my parents took us to these five isolated villages for the very first time. I still remember us jumping off the rocks into crystal clear water with my brother in Manarola. That memory never faded. I just told myself I will go back one day and hike the entire way from the first village to the last one- and so I did along with Denis and my parents!

One of the five terres - Vernazza

Italy, Sicily, Travels

Taormina - Sicily

11/06/2011

Views over the charming Taormina

Just in time for the sunset we arrived to one of the most beautiful places we had yet been in Sicily- Taormina. We drove a rocky road to get to the top of the town, and the sun had just started setting behind Etna in a distance. On the other side was the calm, smoky blue Ionian Sea.

Italy, Outdoors, Sicily, Travels

Hiking on Etna

11/04/2011

Would imagine Mars to look something like this...

We had spent a day getting familiar with the surroundings on Etna and were totally ready for our day out on the volcano. We drove to the start of the most famous ski slopes on Etna (they have to redo the lifts every 5 years after being destroyed by lava) and wanted to hike as high as we could get. Unfortunately the paths to the main craters were closed due to an eruption the week before, and so no one was able to get that far up. The thick fog made everything look so surreal as we checked out some lower cones and craters. Even with a poor visibility, the color scale of the volcanic rock was intense; every shade of red, yellow, purple and black.

Italy, Road Trip, Sicily, Travels

Mount Etna - Sicily

11/04/2011

Young lava fields

We had based ourselves in the small village of Nicolosi in order to get around the Etna national park.

Italy, Road Trip, Sicily, Travels

On the road in Sicily

11/03/2011

We got a car from the airport and tried to get pass the downtown of Palermo, which really wasn’t that fun at all. The street safety there is really bad, we could see crosses set for young people who had passed away on that road (disturbingly with photos on them!), let's just say that we were glad to get pass that part. Once out of the city, the drive was really scenic, we could see small villages up on the mountainsides and plenty of plantations along the way. Somewhere quite in the middle of Sicily, we drove up to this small hilltop village called Enna.

City, Italy, Sicily, Travels

Palermo - Sicily

11/01/2011

Rooftops of Palermo

For our annual autumn getaway we headed to an island best known for its volcanoes, great cuisine and Mafioso (well, maybe little less for that these days but yet an exciting thought…). So we got on an early morning flight from Paris to Palermo, and we were on our way!

Italy, Travels

Rimini & Misano - Italy

5/14/2011

One of the best benefits of work that I can ever think of: free travel. Ciao Dolce Vita! As I was the responsible for the FIA European Truck Race Championship sponsoring, it was only natural I had to attend some of the races. So we wanted to make the best of it, and made it a long weekend in Rimini. We rented a car in Bologne airport and drove straight down to the Adriatic coast. After struggling our way through the narrow one-way streets, we finally arrived in front of our hotel: it was an artsy type boutique hotel on a small street, just across the street from the beach.

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