….a reader of Follow the Idiot. Here, as I sit around the pool at the Magic Castle Hotel in Hollywood, CA, are some shots of Sicilian women taken during my recent MedTrek outing on the island. [caption id=”attachment_947″ align=”alignright”
Want an “easy” volcano to climb instead of grappling with Mount Etna or MedTrekking up Stromboli? The bowl-shaped Crater della Fossa on Sicily’s Aeolian Island of Vulcano is the place to go. But you may get a bit muddy by the time it’s all over. [caption id=”attachment_928″ align=”alignright” width=”600″ caption=”Vulcano’s Crater della
As a seasoned MedTrekker who’s hiked over 7,000 kilometers around the Mediterranean Sea, I’m somewhat surprised that I made two major concessions to climb swiftly-and-legally to the top of Stromboli yesterday. For the first time ever on my MedTrek, I arranged to take
My hydrofoil named Calypso broke down in the Mediterranean Sea en route to volcanic Stromboli this afternoon after stopping at the Aeolian Islands of Vulcano, Lipari and Salina. Consequently I was forced to bag a stay in Stromboli and find a squat in Lipari, where the boat wound up, that I’ll
It took me hours, even with the detailed and revolutionary algorithmic guidance supplied by researchers at the University of Palermo, to locate the reputed cave of the Cyclops called Polyphemus on the southeastern slope of Sicily’s Mount Etna. That was the
Update: Mount Etna erupted again in January 2012. There IS a $100-plus Disneyland-like “ride” to the top of Mount Etna, Europe’s highest active volcano and one of the top draws in Sicily. Go to the Rifugio Sapienza on the
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