Travel advice: self guided tours of Sicily

Categories Authentic Sicily, Beautiful Italy, Italia, Italy, Sicilia, Sicily, Travel, Travel advice, Travel Italy, Travel Memoir, Travel Sicily, Travel writing

Hello friend, I'm gradually working through your travel questions about Sicily. It's taking me a while, but I'm enjoying it. Be sure to send any of your general questions to: sicilyinsideandout@gmail.com Don't expect detailed travel itineraries; let's keep the questions nice and general. And please send all questions via email as I will lose track…

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Travel advice: Santo Stefano di Quisquina, Sicilian ancestry research and travel from Spain.

Categories Authentic Sicily, Beautiful Italy, Italia, Italy, Sicily, Travel, Travel advice, Travel Italy, Travel Memoir, Travel Sicily

Hello friend, I'm gradually working through your travel questions about Sicily.  It's taking me a while, but I'm enjoying it. Be sure to send any of your general questions to: sicilyinsideandout@gmail.com Don't expect detailed travel itineraries; let's keep it general. I'm happy to point you in the right direction if you are planning a trip.…

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Travel advice: Taormina, Palermo and Catania

Categories Italia, Italy, Sicilia, Travel, Travel advice, Travel Italy, Travel Memoir, Travel Sicily, Travel writing

Hello friend, I'm gradually working through your travel questions about Sicily.  It's taking me a while, but I'm loving it. Be sure to send any of your general questions to: sicilyinsideandout@gmail.com Don't expect detailed travel itineraries; let's keep it general. I'm happy to point you in the right direction if you are planning a trip.…

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Travel Advice: Santa Ninfia and the province of Trapani

Categories Italia, Italy, Sicilia, Sicily, Travel, Travel advice, Travel Italy, Travel Memoir, Travel Sicily, Travel writing

Hello friend, I'm gradually working through your travel questions about Sicily. It's taking me a while, but I'm loving it. Be sure to send any of your general questions to: sicilyinsideandout@gmail.com Don't expect detailed travel itineraries; let's keep it general. I'm happy to point you in the right direction if you are planning a trip.…

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Travel advice: where to watch the game

Categories Italia, Italy, Sicilia, Sicily, Travel, Travel advice, Travel Italy, Travel Memoir, Travel Sicily, Travel writing

Hello friend, I'm gradually working through your travel questions about Sicily. It's taking me a while, but I'm loving it. Be sure to send any of your general questions to: sicilyinsideandout@gmail.com Don't expect detailed travel itineraries; let's keep it general. I'm happy to point you in the right direction if you are planning a trip.…

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Travel advice: Siracusa and language schools

Categories Authentic Sicily, Beautiful Italy, Italia, Italy, Life in Sicily, Sicilia, Sicily, Travel, Travel advice, Travel Italy, Travel Sicily

Hello friend, I'm working my way through a pile of various travel questions about Sicily.  It's taking me a while, but I'm getting there. Be sure to send any of your general questions to: sicilyinsideandout@gmail.com Don't expect detailed travel itineraries; let's keep it general. I'm happy to point you in the right direction if you…

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Travel advice: buying a house in Sicily

Categories Authentic Sicily, Beautiful Italy, Italia, Italy, Sicily, Travel, Travel advice, Travel Italy

Hello friend, I’m working my way through heaps of travel questions about Sicily. It’s taking me a while but I’m loving it. Be sure to send any of your general questions to: sicilyinsideandout@gmail.com Don’t expect detailed travel itineraries, lets just keep it general. I’m happy to point you in the right direction if you are…

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Travel advice: a Sicilian reading list

Categories Authentic Sicily, Italia, Italy, Sicilia, Sicily, Travel, Travel advice, Travel Italy, Travel writing

Hello friend, I’m gradually working through your travel questions about Sicily. It’s taking me a while but I’m loving it. Be sure to send any of your general questions to: sicilyinsideandout@gmail.com Don’t expect detailed travel itineraries, lets just keep it general. I’m happy to point you in the right direction if you are planning a…

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Travel Advice: what to see in Sicily

Categories Authentic Sicily, Italia, Italy, Sicilia, Sicily, Travel, Travel advice, Travel Italy, Travel Sicily, Travel writing

Hello friend, I need to say thanks to everyone who has sent me their questions about Sicily. I’m gradually making my way through your queries. Give me some time to work through them. The response has been great. Here is this weeks question that I try to answer for you. Ciao Rochelle,I have plans to…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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