Here are my top May 8-9 weekend picks for the best manmade temple, castle, cobblestone street, city street and outdoor theater in northwestern Sicily. [caption id=”attachment_473″ align=”alignright” width=”600″ caption=”I could see this 12th century castle atop Erice
There will soon be a blog devoted solely to garbage on the Italian seaside south of Naples. Why? Because there are blossoming stacks of garbage everywhere. Even when trash collectors aren’t on strike. Even when
Three euros (which will be worth about $1 on Sunday if the currency keeps declining at its current rate)? No, the European Union has not forced Italy to charge tourists and locals to swim in the Mediterranean Sea
MedTrekking today from Balestrate, a town on Sicily’s Gulf of Castellammare named after a very distant relative of mine, towards the glorious looking Cape of San Vito. That’s the cape as seen from Balestrate this morning after I
Everyone in the Sicilian seaside village of Isola delle Femmine (or Women’s Island) west of Palermo seems to have an explanation about the tower on the uninhabited island just offshore. A female police officer in the small town — which is twinned
I’m occasionally a bit frustrated when, after hours of arduous climbing/trekking on the Mediterranean Sea, I encounter an obstacle that forces me to humbly backtrek, patiently retrace my steps, cautiously attempt to find a new route around a difficult part of coastline and pray to numerous gods and goddesses in Greek
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