Hi, I’m Giulia!
I’m an Italian language teacher, incurably curious and almost always planning my next trip.
I teach languages, literature and culture for a living — which probably explains why, when I travel, I’m never satisfied with simply seeing a place. I want to know its stories, understand its people, learn a few words of the language and find out why things are the way they are.
So… Who’s the traveller behind the detours?
I’m not a full-time traveller. I travel between lessons, school calendars, weekends and holidays; sometimes far away, sometimes much closer to home.
I love carefully planned itineraries, beautiful places, local food, history, languages and those unexpected discoveries that somehow become the best part of a trip. I’m also the kind of person who will research a destination for hours, create an extremely detailed itinerary… and then happily abandon it because I spotted an interesting street along the way.
Hence the detour.
On The Teacher’s Detour, I share:
- 🗺️ itineraries I’ve actually tried;
- ✈️ practical tips for making the most of limited travel time;
- 💰 realistic costs and budgets;
- 📚 history, culture, literature and languages connected to the places I visit;
- 📍 places I loved — and occasionally, places I wouldn’t visit twice;
- 💭 stories and little discoveries collected along the way.
In other words, I do the research, take the detours and make the mistakes — then I bring my notes back here.
A few things about me
- I will absolutely spend three hours planning the most efficient itinerary possible — and another three reading about the history of a building we’re going to see for ten minutes.
- I’m a window-seat person, I firmly believe that trying local food counts as cultural research, and I’m incapable of visiting a new country without wanting to learn at least a few words of the language.
- Don’t let the detailed itineraries fool you: I’m also a professional sleeper and a firm believer that not every morning needs a 6 a.m. alarm. Give me a slow breakfast, a sunny terrace or an afternoon doing absolutely nothing by the sea and I’ll happily call that a successful day of travelling.
If you’d like to know why I started The Teacher’s Detour, there’s a whole post behind it.
→ Read: Why I started “The Teacher’s Detour”
Otherwise, pick a destination and come along.
Class dismissed. Let’s go somewhere. ✈️
— Giulia
