There is a passage in Jack London’s, The Call of the Wild that has always struck me: ‘There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which…

‘The courage of a sailor does not lie in taking the waves, but in facing the departures,’ says Valerio as we tell each other about the experiences we have lived…

When we left at the beginning of January, from the island of Saint Lucia in the Caribbean, our world tour was to be a dream made real, together with many…

The period of British colonialism in Fiji is so long ago that few vestiges of those years remain. In Suva, the capital on the island of Viti Levu, only the…

We sailed on the morning of Monday, 6th July from Bora Bora, with a course set for the Fiji islands, in a flotilla of three boats: Milanto, Ariel and the…

‘David, don’t get into trouble!’ Federica shouts to her little son, who following her, has jumped out of the jeep and is running towards the rubbish bins. She is an…

They came from every island in Polynesia to celebrate the union of the people who inhabited a large area of ​​the Pacific called Te-Moana-Nui-o-Hiva, otherwise known as the Polynesian triangle,…

In the centre of Papeete, near the central market – in a large structure covered in red and white iron sidings, where pearls and fruit, flowers, fish and coconut milk…

We got lucky, it could have been worse. This is often said when the danger has passed. When the tension drops, the damage is assessed and it is clear that…

Moorea is that island of Polynesia where couples from all over the world come on their honeymoon. Not far from Tahiti, it has volcanic topography like the other islands of…

A book of Polynesian legends, purchased by a friend in a Tahitian bookshop, sparked my curiosity. I understood that in these myths lies the core of the culture of these…

Tahiti Iti and the garden of Eden

I wake up early in the morning, prepare tea, go out on the deck of Milanto and sit at the bow. The island of Moorea is always in front of…

I am writing this from Taina Marina, in Papeete, Tahiti. We are moored on the dock and touching our feet on the land for the first time after more than…

When we sailed from the island of St. Lucia on January 11th, I believed in the extraordinary opportunity that life was offering me. An opportunity that Valerio (for him Milanto…

During these first two months of travel we have often wondered about the ecological protection of the places we visited and, as often happens when you go into the complex…

After almost a week spent visiting the natural wonders of the Galapagos Islands according to Darwin’s famous descriptions: the craters of the numerous volcanoes, the lava tunnels and the lush…

Around 30° latitude north and south of the equator you enter an area of ​​variable winds where you happen to stumble across the calm equatorial conditions that afflicted the ships…

Panama is a metropolitan area that extends over a very large territory where almost two million people live today. In the few days that I have spent here I have…

The Panama Canal is not only the border crossing between two oceans, but also between two different worlds, between two different cultures – the Atlantic and the Pacific ones. In…