I think Palermo gets a bad rap. It’s a gritty, noisy city, similar to more than a few other cities I have visited. This was the first time I’d been to Palermo and, after two days, my verdict is it’s a great city! I read that it has undergone a few decades of self-improvement. Well, …
Continue reading Sicily 2025: Palermo. A lively city full of color, noise and plenty of cannoli.
I’d been in Sicily for just two hours and I already made somebody mad. Not being familiar with the Catania airport and arriving from an overnight flight, I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to get the 9 a.m. bus to Milazzo, a coastal town where one takes ferries to the Aeolian Islands, my destination. …
Continue reading Sicily 2025: Welcome to Salina, a star of the Aeolian Islands.
I love discovering Sicily. It’s not only where my familial roots are planted – my mother was born here and my father’s family is from here – it’s simply a joy to travel around a place so different from the rest of the boot. Luckily for me, my mom and her brothers went back to …
Christmas day in Grotte, Sicily started like any other Christmas day - with pancakes and red pajamas. I celebrated Christmas this year with cousins in Grotte, Sicily, the town where my mom was born. It’s also the town she left four years later when her parents decided that a better life awaited them in America. …
Striking. That’s the best adjective I have to describe what I thought when I first saw La Scala dei Turchi here in Sicily. The rock cliff, as you see in the photos, is simply stunning. The rock looks sharp, and at some points, it is, and yet the cliff looks like it's rolling waves. I’m …
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