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A Sicilian Summer with Brian Johnston

Categories About me, Arts, Beautiful Italy, Culture Shock, Interviews, Italy, Life in Sicily, Literary Islands, Literature, Living in Sicily, Only in Sicily, Sicilian Cuisine, Sicilian Culture and Traditions, Sicilian food, Sicilian History, Sicily, Travel, Travel Italy, Travel Sicily

I’ve always been a lover of the travel writing genre, ever since my mother gave me a paperback of Bill Bryson’s ‘Neither here nor there’ which took me backpacking through Europe before I left high school. Since then I have made my way through many travel writing classics from Paul Theroux to Bruce Chatwin. Many…

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Blackbird days

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It’s a bleak time of year here in the mountain villages of the Nebrodi. The intermittent rain and hail is interrupted by tiny specks of sunshine quickly smudged out by the billowing charcoal clouds. The chill makes me want to shut myself up inside. My lips are chapped and my hands are rough and sandpapery…

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