Monthly Archives: May 2010

Monthly Archives: May 2010

MedTrekking to Syracuse, Augusta and Florida?

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No, The Idiot is not back in the USA. But I’ll be hiking through these towns as I continue my walking adventure along Sicily’s eastern coast to Messina. After a glorious weekend walkabout in Gozo and a queasy

Has Anyone Here Slept With A Beautiful And Immortal Nymph Named Calypso?

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Malta is, compared to Sicily, a small island in the Mediterranean Sea. And everyone on Malta considers nearby Gozo a really small island. So I didn’t think that it would be too difficult to find

Want To Travel Locally? Walk!

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One reason that I’ve walked over 6,700 kilometers around the Mediterranean Sea is to connect with local communities and be exposed to new people, places, cultures, cuisine, ideas and socio-political idiosyncrasies. Though I hope to circumnavigate the entire sea within twenty years, which is the amount of time it took Odysseus to

The MedTrekking Idiot Gets Sidetrekked to Malta

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Saturday morning update Cloudy daybreak from my $50 hotel room in Sliema, Malta, as I prepare to head to Gozo after breakfast. Incidentally, there is a Calypso in Gozo. In fact, immediately upon my arrival she arranged for my $50 Expedia-booked room at the Grand Hotel overlooking the harbor to be upgraded to

Would You Want To See Contemporary Art Exhibited In A Classical Setting?

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What’s going to continue causing a heated debate and culture clash at the Valley of the Temples in Sicily’s gigantic Agrigento archeological site until October 3? An exhibit called “Contemporary Art for the Temple of Zeus” that prominently displays

A Dancing Satyr Prompted These Photographs

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The first place I went when I MedTrekked into Mazara del Vallo, a seaside town in northwestern Sicily that has a delightfully laidback North African feel about it, was to the two-room