Keep Calm and Travel

Italian travel blog with itineraries, tips and personal stories from a local.

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Written By

Clelia Mattana

Travellers

Solo

Focus

Europe

Popularity

8 / 100

Running Since

2013

Posts

151

A few times a year

Last Updated

Mar 2026

About Keep Calm and Travel

Keep Calm and Travel is the personal travel website of Clelia Mattana, an Italian-born traveler who left a London fashion job to start long-term travel in 2013. The site grew into a sizable resource with more than 150 posts and over 450 pages, covering Italy, Sardinia and wider Europe plus practical guides on planning, packing and blogging. Clelia mixes first-person stories with step-by-step itineraries and planning checklists. Posts are long-form and richly illustrated, the newest Italy road-trip guide runs thousands of words, includes nearly fifty photos and embeds video, and the site also publishes blogging and digital nomad advice.

A warm, self-ironic local voice is what sets this blog apart, the kind of guide you would take road-tripping with you. Clelia writes in a chatty, humorous tone that still manages to be extremely thorough, her two-week Italy road-trip guide runs to thousands of words and is littered with practical chaptered sections, maps, and nearly fifty photos plus a video. You will find long, usable itineraries, Sardinia expertise, and hands-on planning and blogging posts. Content appears a few times a year, so expect big, well-worked guides rather than daily updates. Reading it feels like getting travel advice from an experienced local who also teaches you how to plan and monetize trips.