Patrick Colgan was born in Bologna, Italy, in 1978, of an Italian mother and British father. He began traveling with an InterRail pass and never stopped since. He has been in almost forty countries and all five continents but he loves going back to Japan. When he is not travelling around the world he is a Journalist at the daily newspaper Il Resto del Carlino. He has been writing his travel blog Orizzonti for years, in Italian (blog in Englis https://Patrickcolgan.net).