admin I visit Finotello at his farm to see him harvest the castraùre. It’s a muggy day with a hot, salty breeze, and the earth is springy after days of rain. The artichoke plants are slowly opening up in the sun. Finotello shows me how to cut a castraùra gently off the stalk with the traditional … Read more
Because they’re so delicate, the castraùre don’t get exported far out of the lagoon and are usually harvested, sold and eaten in the same day. Camerino sells directly to restaurants in Venice that “understand the quality” of the product. The problem, she says, is that many restaurants in Venice have stopped buying real castraùre “because … Read more
The water glitters in the sunlight as Venetian farmer Guia Camerino steers her boat past the briccole, the wooden piles that mark invisible – to non-Venetians – lanes through the lagoon. Just a few kilometres north of Venice’s warren of tourist-packed streets are the islands of Sant’Erasmo and Le Vignole, known as “the vegetable garden of … Read more
5. Be curious and connect deeply Anthony Bourdain famously said that “travel is not a reward for working, it is education for living”. It’s a great philosophy for sustainable travel – and one of the most sustainable ways to learn more about the place you are visiting is to book an Indigenous-led tour. Getty Images Citizen science and … Read more
If you’re stumped, you’re not alone. A new Booking.com report found sustainability is important to 84% of global travellers. But while the desire to travel greener is strong, the path to eco-tourism is unclear for many. A Trip.com study found that nearly half of travellers are confused about what sustainable travel actually means, while a 2025 World Travel & Tourism … Read more
Reports from former Islas Marías residents suggest that less well-known killings also took place on the islands. In 2004, an island chaplain named Francisco Ornelas wrote: “It is rumoured – and rumours are a profession here – that people who were disappeared are buried on the other three islands, which are now deserted but for the … Read more
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