Always on the lookout for new challenges and new projects, after 6 years in Florence I decided it was time for a change. A big change. In 2016 I left my work and ventured on a 4-month long bicycle trip through Europe. I crossed 18 different countries, basically everywhere between Albania and Finland. It was as much a personal journey as it was a physical one, and I came back to Florence a new person. After this initial bicycle trip, more followed, because I can tell you: travelling by bicycle across unknown lands is incredibly addictive!

In 2019 my bicycle trips developed into an environmental initiative: Cycle 2 Recycle. I exchanged my hybrid bike for a cargo bicycle, and along the way started picking up plastic waste in order to raise awareness about the huge problem that is plastic pollution. In 2020 the second edition of Cycle 2 Recyle took place, and because of the covid pandemic I decided to cross the entire Italian peninsula. Because unfortunately, as beautiful as Italy is, it’s also very much polluted and awareness about the useless consumption of disposable plastic is still incredibly low.

Thanks to my journey along the Via Francigena pilgrimage route in 2020 I then started working as Content Manager for the European Association of the Via Francigena. In the summer of 2021 I had to honour of being the face of the Association’s 20th anniversary event: a relay march on foot along the entire 3200km of the Via Francigena, from Canterbury all the way to the southern tip of Puglia: Santa Maria di Leuca. For four months I was on the road, crossing Europe on foot step by step, documenting every moment of it for the Association’s communication channels. This incredible journey was also covered in the Road to Rome docufilm.