Travel diary

Share your travel diaries.

Did you go to Italy as a tourist, student or for work?

Share your experiences with the Italiophile community of Life In Italy!

We are opening a new section of the website that will allow you to tell the story of your trip to Italy.

Who can write a travel diary? Everyone who visited Italy and has a story to share. We are looking for people with genuine passion, if you lack writing skills, it’s not a problem.

There is not a required form: you can give us  the list of the places you visited followed by a brief comment, or go lyrical and tell us every details of your adventure.

We are interested in every information you want to share. Why did you go to Italy? When? With whom? Was it your first time? How long did you stay? What places did you visit? Where did you sleep and eat? Was it good? Were Italy and the Italians like you imagined? Do you have any good story or anecdote to share? Any tips and hints for your fellow travelers? Most of all: did you enjoy your Italian experience?

Your fellow Italiophile want to read your true experiences, written in honest, direct language. They don’t want a bullet list of what, where, who, but they look for vivid stories, they want to experience your emotions and adventures and hear straight from you how the real life in Italy is.

These are just suggestions to get your imagination started, you are completely free to tell us your story using the format and style you prefer. Of course, the more detailed and better written your story is, the more will be appreciated from the other members of the community. Many are looking for advice, so remember to give every useful information you can share, especially those you don’t find written in travel guides, but have learned with direct experience.

Now, a few guidelines.

The readers of Life in Italy are English speaking, so your travel diary should be written in English. You don’t need to write as a professional writer, but be sure to write in clear and understandable English.

Write your diary with a word processor, like Microsoft Office, OpenOffice or other word processor of your choice with a spell checker. Spell check your text and then paste it in text window of the submission page.

We are interested in your original thoughts, experiences and work. Linking to an external website, like Wikipedia, to give more information about a place or event is ok, copying and pasting from other websites is not.

There is no upper limit to the length of your text. There isn’t even a lower limit, but a short text may not be as informative as other readers would like. For this reason, try to write at least a 500 word story. If you are in doubt whether put in or leave out a detail or information, put it in.

Remember: you are writing your travel diary to share an experience and to tell your story to your fellow lovers of Italy.

Email your story to content@lifeinitaly.com