• Description: Darinka, a traveler, writer, photographer, designer, and videomaker, returned to Italy in 2014 after 15 years abroad to follow her passions. She started a journey on foot from Palermo without money, traveling across Italy for seven months and collecting stories. This experience led to her book "Walkaboutitalia". She later published "Mondonauta", a narrative of her travels from Asia to Scandinavia, tackling deep themes in a beat generation style. Her adventure continues on bicycle and sailboat, aiming to complete a global circumnavigation. During the pandemic, she stopped in Bali, where she wrote "Ballando nel Silenzio" about the Indonesian lockdown
  • Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
  • Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
  • Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
  • Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
  • Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
  • Internet: https://darinkamontico.com
  • Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123113216
  • Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Montico, Darinka. 2015. Walkaboutitalia : l’Italia a Piedi, Senza Soldi, Raccogliendo Sogni. Roma: Ed. dei cammini
Precursori, Forerunners, Précurseurs
Viaggi stravaganti, Weird travels, Voyages insolites
Globetrotter contemporanei, Contemporary globetrotters, Globetrotteurs contemporains
Personaggi fittizi, Fictional character, Personnages de fiction

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