About

www.maraska.it is a collection of pictures, videos and stories about myself and several trips I have made across the world over the last few years. There is more: this website also deals with an alternative way of travelling and get to know people and places.
Following paragraphs will tell the story of the website since the beginning. Or even before...

2004

I started to track my trips and publish pictures online, using free websites (mainly geocities). Primitive interface, only the link to the trip itself, no homepage. There were just a bunch of pictures with no explanation.

2005

My first transoceanic trip, to Canada and NY , was the final excuse for building the website. It was the first of September, 2005 when I purchased the domain "maraska.it". In a couple of weeks my American trip and all previous external links were available. I eventually added a (very) basic home page.

2006

Once again in America: Florida and New Orleans on the road. Alone. This was the first time I decided to add some comments to pictures, the "reportage" style was borne...

2007

In 2007 I experienced one of the most beautiful country in the world: MEXICO. When I came back home I realized that besides tons of pictures I had a lot of little films taken with my (photo)camera. This was a good excuse for trying and learn some video editing and create a music video of the trip.
And the result was not bad at all...

2008

2008 was dedicated to learn and test video editing programs and skills. My stunning trip to Kapadokya and my unforgettable holyday in Sicily helped a lot.
Favignana video uploaded on my youtube channel won the "Most 50 viewed video of the week" prize in August 2008, and during the first year 10.000 people visited it.

2009

I will always remember 2009 for my amazing and extraordinaty trip to Perù.
Unfortunately I "lost" my camera during the very first days of the trip, so I had to rely on a friend's REFLEX: back to photography...

2010

On 27 of December 2009 I decided I had to leave for a trip: I get a very last second and after a couple of days I left for Japan.
In the first half of 2010 I have travelled almost more days than ones stayed in Rome (mainly for business reason). During one of those (Israel) trip I had the opportunity to cross the border and spend few days in Jordan. The very same day I came back from Israel, I had just a couple of hours to go home, change my luggage and go back to the Ariport for another trip: Saint Petersburg, Russia .

Unfortunately at the end of July, just a few days before leaving for vacation, I had an accident and had to renounce to yet another adventure.
No big deal... waiting for 2011!!

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