Who's behind this

A life between
two worlds.

Basilicata and the Netherlands.
Nature, movement, and many stories
I rediscover by sharing.

Sirino · winter

A Land Inside My Head is the set of scents, colors and emotions that each of us is able to feel: the exploration of a new path, moving to a new city, walking for the first time instead of driving in a place that we routinely cross by car, are all experiences that lead us to discover the infinite colors that characterize our mind.

Once they told me: <<our mind is like a kaleidoscope. It contains all the colors but we can only look at them if we are aware of the infinity of possible shades and we look away from those few colors that we believe are the only ones possible>>.

I'm Vittorio Marino, half Apulian half Lucano, with facial features more similar to a Northern European. Or at least that's what I like to believe: since 2017 I've been working and living between the Netherlands, Amsterdam, Southern Italy, and a bit of whatever falls in between.

The idea of ​​creating a blog or, rather, a diary where to collect my experiences and keep memories grew up in my mind in 2020, in the middle of the first wave of the covid-pandemic, after about 3 months (March-April-May) spent in Milano in lockdown.

Addicted to sport and a nature lover, I practise many disciplines: running, swimming, yoga, slackline. And I like travelling slowly. I've cycled across Basilicata more than once, crossing the Pollino and riding it from coast to coast. I walked the Via degli Dei in 2022, joined the Basilicata Bike Trail in 2023, and the Basilicata Coast to Coast in 2025 organised by the friends of BBT. In 2024 I made a dream come true: connecting two places dear to me by bicycle, Policoro and Amsterdam, passing through France.

Since 2023 I'm a certified Nature & Hiking Guide, part of Italy's most representative association of nature guides, AIGAE. I'm a Slackline instructor (still unqualified, but not for much longer) and in my free time I practise highline.

I lead others in the discovery of landscapes, sunsets and places that speak of beauty, wonder and enchantment. I organise snowshoe outings, hikes of one or several days, walks in the woods, alone or together with local friends with whom I share a love for nature and for slow, deep adventures.

Vittorio Marino
Nature & Hiking Guide

Not a place
to consume.
A place to experience.

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