Carol King
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Carol King spends her time between Sicily and London. She has been a journalist and writer for 30 years and a freelance for more than 20 years. Carol loves travel and has visited 36 countries - so far. Her appetite for travel has seen her track gorillas in Uganda, climb Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka, visit salt mines in Poland and puff cigars in Cuba. Outside of the UK she has lived in Buenos Aires, Madrid and Modica, Sicily. After more than 20 years as a technology journalist editing various titles and writing for newspapers including the Wall Street Journal Europe, The Guardian and Daily Telegraph, now Carol writes mainly on travel, art, architecture, film and history for books, magazines and websites. She has written about travel for TheTravelEditor.com, Frommer’s, Volotea Airline and 1001 Escapes, as well as Destinations Travel, Destination Weddings, Psychologies and Discover magazines. Carol also does guest slots on the BBC radio show Mondo Italiano and Australia’s Rete Italia. She loves Sicily: its nature, architecture, sun, sea, food and, most of all, its people.
Articles by Carol King
Tue, 07/16/2013 - 07:06
As the world awaits the birth of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge’s first child, it appears that the first present for the baby may have be…
Mon, 07/15/2013 - 19:47
Workshops in women’s prisons across Italy are participating in an initiative supported by Fendi heiress Silvia Venturini to produce a fashion brand, S…
Mon, 07/15/2013 - 07:15
The Italian capital is establishing quotas regarding the number of tables bars, restaurants and cafés in the historic centre can have.
The council sa…
Fri, 07/12/2013 - 08:29
Excavations at the Parco Naturalistico Archeologico di Vulci (Vulci Archaeological Naturalistic Park) north of Rome have revealed an Etruscan tomb tha…
Thu, 07/11/2013 - 06:18
words by Carol King
A dog’s alert nose helped an apartment building in Livorno from blowing up – and a man from committing suicide.
The incident has…
Wed, 07/10/2013 - 14:45
Some 194 plant specimens and 161 animal species in Italy are at risk of extinction, according to a new report. A report released by the Ministero dell…
Tue, 07/09/2013 - 18:39
Italian tenor and singer-songwriter Andrea Bocelli will perform in his birthplace on 13 July.
Bocelli was born in the village of Lajatico in the prov…
Tue, 07/09/2013 - 05:50
Couples may be able to have their wedding photos taken on the red carpet of next Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma (Rome Film Festival).
The i…
Mon, 07/08/2013 - 10:42
The Allied Forces landed in Sicily in July 1943 in a campaign that changed the course of World War II. Carol King reports on the operation and how tho…
Sun, 07/07/2013 - 14:07
The ‘Italo’ movie is set to tell the touching story of a stray dog that captured the heart of Italy.
The film is inspired by a true story and named a…
Fri, 07/05/2013 - 08:04
Carol King examines the Italians’ enduring love for The Fab Four.
Fifty years after the release of The Beatles’ first album ‘Please Please Me’, Itali…
Thu, 07/04/2013 - 04:39
The Mazzei vineyard in Siena, Tuscany has made a wine named ‘Philip’ in honour of Italian Philip Mazzei, who is credited the idea that all men are cre…
Tue, 07/02/2013 - 09:30
words by Carol King Officials at the Italian-American Museum in New York’s Little Italy are looking to sell the building to a property developer, acco…
Tue, 07/02/2013 - 09:25
Italian construction magnate Pietro Salini wants to donate €20 million to restore Pompeii. Reuters news agency reports that Salini wants to donate fun…
Tue, 07/02/2013 - 09:19
New legislation that advocates Italy’s artworks in storage can be lent to foreign museums for as long as 20 years in return for payment has caused con…
Tue, 07/02/2013 - 06:03
The Swarovski Foundation announced it will restore the statue of St. George on top of the Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice.
The statue crow…
Mon, 07/01/2013 - 06:23
Carol King looks at the latest trends in baby names in Italy.
It used to be that Italians named their offspring after saints recognised in the Catho…
Mon, 07/01/2013 - 02:09
The Sicilian tourist board’s Facebook page, Visit Sicily, is the most popular Italian region on the social-media site with more than 223,300 fans, acc…
Sun, 06/30/2013 - 14:20
UNESCO has inscribed Italy’s Medici Villas and Gardens to the World Heritage List.
Twelve villas and two pleasure gardens in the Tuscan countryside m…
Fri, 06/28/2013 - 09:51
words by Carol King
Luxury British department store Harrods has opened a store in Italy at Porto Cervo on the island of Sardinia.
The Harrods brand…