Featured

Travelling to Italy advice for this summer

Categories Authentic Sicily, Beautiful Italy, Italy, Sicily, Travel, Travel advice, Travel Italy, Travel writingLeave a Comment on Travelling to Italy advice for this summer

This is the first free travel advice post dedicated to answering your questions about travelling to Italy and Sicily. Send me your queries and I’ll try to help with a weekly post.

Featured

A fresh start

Categories About me, Sicily

Hello friend, Sometimes starting over can be a solution to the complications we create for ourselves in life. I've been thinking about a fresh new start. So I'll gradually move to a new blog space where I combine all my content in one unique place. Instead of maintaining two blogs, I'm going to start over…

Continue reading ➞ A fresh start

Sicilian saying: persistence

Categories 1,000 Words about Sicily, Detti Siciliane, Italia, Life in Sicily, Sicilian diary, Sicilian language, Sicilian Sayings, Sicily, words about Sicily, words from Sicily

  Sicilian’s are seriously resilient people in a place of great historical poverty and complex modern problems of high unemployment and a neglected economy Sicilian’s seem to withstand an awful lot. So it is only natural to see this kind of saying dedicated to the art of persistence in Sicilian dialect. Once again a typical…

Continue reading ➞ Sicilian saying: persistence

Sicilian saying: arrogance

Categories 1,000 Words about Sicily, Detti Siciliane, Italia, Life in Sicily, Sicilian diary, Sicilian language, Sicilian Sayings, Sicily, words about Sicily, words from Sicily

  I love the image of an artichoke in this Sicilian saying, the idea that an artichoke is a proud or arrogant image is astounding. So yes, obviously Sicilian’s must find the artichoke a little bit aristocratic, perhaps it’s thorny thistle nature makes it difficult to understand, it definatly isn’t to everyones taste. Sicilian wild…

Continue reading ➞ Sicilian saying: arrogance

Sagre and Feste in each Sicilian province: Trapani

Categories Events in Sicily, Feste e Sagre, Italia, Italy, Sicilia, Sicilian Cuisine, Sicilian Culture and Traditions, Sicily, Travel Sicily

Throughout the year, Sicily offers the occasion to enjoy the best local food and traditions for locals and visitors. A town or city's Sagra will feature a particular speciality celebrated and usually consumed for only a few Euros. Some people hire a camper, particularly in the summer and go from sagra to sagra, depending on…

Continue reading ➞ Sagre and Feste in each Sicilian province: Trapani

Sagre and Feste in each Sicilian province: Siracusa

Categories Events in Sicily, Feste e Sagre, Italia, Italy, Sicilia, Sicilian Cuisine, Sicilian food, Sicilian heritage, Sicily, Travel Sicily

Throughout the year, Sicily offers the occasion to enjoy the best local food and traditions for locals and visitors. A town or city's Sagra will feature a particular speciality celebrated and usually consumed for only a few Euros. Some people hire a camper, particularly in the summer and go from sagra to sagra, depending on…

Continue reading ➞ Sagre and Feste in each Sicilian province: Siracusa

Sagre and Feste in each Sicilian province: Ragusa

Categories Cucina Siciliana, Events in Sicily, Feste e Sagre, Italia, Italy, Sicilia, Sicilian Cuisine, Sicilian food, Sicilian heritage, Sicily, Travel Sicily

Throughout the year, Sicily offers the occasion to enjoy the best local food and traditions for locals and visitors. A town or city's Sagra will feature a particular speciality celebrated and usually consumed for only a few Euros. Some people hire a camper, particularly in the summer and go from sagra to sagra, depending on…

Continue reading ➞ Sagre and Feste in each Sicilian province: Ragusa

Sagre and Feste in each Sicilian province: Palermo

Categories Events in Sicily, Feste e Sagre, Italia, Italy, Sicilia, Sicilian Cuisine, Sicilian experiences, Sicilian food, Sicily, Travel Sicily

Throughout the year, Sicily offers the occasion to enjoy the best local food and traditions for locals and visitors. A town or city's Sagra will feature a particular speciality celebrated and usually consumed for only a few Euros. Some people hire a camper, particularly in the summer and go from sagra to sagra, depending on…

Continue reading ➞ Sagre and Feste in each Sicilian province: Palermo

Sagre and Feste in each Sicilian province: Enna

Categories Events in Sicily, Expat advice from Italy, Expat experiences, Feste e Sagre, Italia, Italy, Sicilia, Sicilian Cuisine, Sicilian Culture and Traditions, Sicilian food, Travel, Travel Italy, Travel Sicily

Throughout the year, Sicily offers the occasion to enjoy the best local food and traditions for locals and visitors. A town or city's Sagra will feature a particular speciality celebrated and usually consumed for only a few Euros. Some people hire a camper, particularly in the summer and go from sagra to sagra, depending on…

Continue reading ➞ Sagre and Feste in each Sicilian province: Enna

Sagre and Feste in each Sicilian province: Agrigento

Categories Feste e Sagre, Italia, Italy, Sicilia, Sicilian Cuisine, Sicilian Culture and Traditions, Sicily, Travel Sicily, Travel writing

Throughout the year, Sicily offers the occasion to enjoy the best local food and traditions for locals and visitors. A town or city's Sagra will feature a particular speciality celebrated and usually consumed for only a few Euros. Some people hire a camper, particularly in the summer and go from sagra to sagra, depending on…

Continue reading ➞ Sagre and Feste in each Sicilian province: Agrigento