Licia Colò, the unexpected in travel is true wealth

(by Cinzia Conti) Holiday prices increased? "Let's say that the whole of life has become a little more expensive embarrassing, in every sector. I read what he said Alessandro Gassmann on the high cost of beach umbrellas. It's certainly not a problem. of the factories, I noticed that the airline tickets, for example." He said this in an interview with ANSA is Licia Colò, television host and author, writer and blogger or better as she defines herself "popularizer of the wonders of the Planet". Colò is keen to point out that although many people think so, via the wonderful locations of his programs such as example At the foot of Kilimanjaro, she is not a travel expert: "I travel a lot, yes, but for my services which have a purpose. different.... Of course the way of travelling is continuously change. Young people have little money in their pockets because We know very well that ours is not a country in great shape growth, to put it mildly. When they travel low cost, they go to sleep in hostels. Among other things, thanks to my daughter I discovered that they are no longer the hostels of the past, they are something decidedly different, even very engaging, meeting places for people who love to learn about the world spending not a lot of money". And she says about herself laughing: "I am a 'non-traveler' because as the old popular saying goes, I'm like the shoemaker who He goes with broken shoes. I've spent a lifetime traveling to I work and, fortunately, I continue to do so, so the moment that I have some free time, if I decide to take a trip, mine is a journey in absolute slow motion. I believe that the way of travelling today, is not a modality that It enriches the journey but rather impoverishes it. I realize that all people want to do as if it were a competition to see who he sees more things and then sadly posts everything on Instagram. This summer I'm based here in the family home on the Dolomites and I see so many people running to do the four steps of the Dolomites, which are not four but more, but maybe not They don't even get out of the car except for a few shots Quick, it's an infinite sadness. This is a way for me not to travel. I personally would have been much more inclined to I'd rather stay home than do something like that." For Licia Colò, travel is first and foremost freedom. "Freedom - he explains - it's not having timetables, freedom is looking around, stop, try to capture even things that are not planned. Because the unexpected in the journey is the real wealth. I have had the most beautiful experiences in my life thanks to unexpected events. I met special people, I may have followed someone I shouldn't have followed and it made me see a wonderful place." Licia Colò talks a lot about travel with her daughter, with whom she is with very tied: "If someone is in a hurry he certainly cannot live these experiences and can not open the mind, which is crucial. My daughter is a young influencer followed for travels and now she has even started writing a book 'on the I'm traveling alone. Please don't 'travel alone' - we he is keen to point out -, otherwise the boys will scold us but Solo Travel. It's a special way of seeing the world, it's the anti Instagram!. Now you don't even talk to your neighbors directly but via Instagram, as if they were on the other side of the world. Instead, traveling alone, perhaps in the hostels, you even risk knowing the people. You know them from I live, it's a terrible risk...". But it's not something that concerns only the young people: "Even many adults - he says - have holed up behind social media, which I don't demonize in the slightest because I think they are a wonderful tool." Holidays and rest for Licia Colò are interspersed with many professional projects: "I'm working - he says - on a project that is very close to my heart: a theatrical show that we will start doing it in November where we will talk about the beauty, of the value of nature. So I will bring to the theatre the themes that have always been close to my heart. Then on television from In September I will be a regular guest on a prime time show on Rai2. I put theatre before television because theatre For me it's a new thing, while I've been doing TV for 40 years. And then I always thank the director of La7 Andrea Salerno that I I really appreciate it because with the reruns of Eden - A planet from saving is making me become like Lieutenant Columbo, actually like Murder, She Wrote. I'm honored." Finally, a question about the country you would really like to visit again? "I have never counted the many countries I have visited. I am not points on a geographical map. And then you can't say that know Kenya just because you have been in one for a certain period of time Kenyan territory, right? Or Africa? Africa is made of hundreds of countries... My favorite ones right now of life? The North of the world or maybe I would go back to Australia."