Let me tell you something about myself. I’m a freelance journalist, working from home. For a long time, I’ve written about health, quality of life, and travel. Today, I also cover current events and news, with a strong interest in geography, people’s stories, and the small and big tales of history intertwined with places.
I have a four-year-old son, two cats, a dog, and a life partner. Together, we live in an old mountain house in a tiny village in the Apennines of Emilia Romagna, in the province of Modena, near the border with Tuscany.
My son is homeschooled, and as a family, we’ve decided to continue this path in the years to come. We also have a camper named “Charly Timpesta Tito,” which we use to travel. Traveling together, learning, and writing all these small stories about discoveries, homeschooling, and the geography we encounter during our journeys (real or imagined—even through books) is something we deeply value.
I’m Maddalena De Bernardi, an Italian freelance journalist and mom living in a small village of the Apennines mountains. Many of my stories begin with a coffee and a question, talking with my son in our day. What was the world like once? What was the world like once? Why do we do things this way? As our grandparents and great-grandparents lived their everyday lives, their stories became intertwined with the great events and figures of world history.
Where will the road take us today? We follow tales through geography and historytravel, writing about culture, slow living and quality of life.
Find The Route is my collection of moments, questions and discoveries: a place to travel through geography, history and imagination, one route at a time.
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