52 Reasons to Love Sicily #49. Swim Off A Boat Into Turquoise Seas. Give yourself the kiss of fresh air rushing through your hair and the sweetness of cobalt waters enveloping your body as you jump off a catamaran into the Tyrrhenian Sea. Lo Zingaro Nature Preserve in northwestern Sicily is just one of many…
Category: Nature, Seasons
52 Reasons to Love Sicily | Explore It on Foot or by Bicycle
52 Reasons to Love Sicily #44. Explore It on Foot or by Bicycle. There is simple joy in exploring new territory on foot or bicycle. Sicily has many walking and hiking opportunities: Everything from walking along rolling country roads between villages in the Madonie Mountains to coastal hikes in Lo Zingaro Nature Reserve with dips…
52 Reasons to Love Sicily | Wild Landscapes
52 Reasons to Love Sicily #38. Wild Landscapes. Going off the beaten path in Sicily is easy. In just a few minutes’ drive from larger cities and towns, you can discover yourself in the midst of flora and fauna: fields of millions of wildflowers, curving roadways that lead to forgotten hill-top villages, striking rock formations jutting out…
52 Reasons to Love Sicily | Extraordinary Natural Beauty
52 Reasons to Love Sicily #31. Extraordinary Natural Beauty. In Sicily there are infinite stunning sea views and heavenly mountain panoramas and expansive volcanic valleys and magnificent deep gorges and crystal clear natural springs … you get the idea! Not to mention with the seasonal changes of this sub-tropical climate, a place could be splendid…
52 Reasons to Love Sicily | Etna Shows Her Power
52 Reasons to Love Sicily. #7. Europe’s largest, most active volcano, Mount Etna, reminds us that we are guests here. She is a living thing that morphs according to the latest volcanic activity. The slopes of this “mountain,” which isn’t really a mountain, offer microclimates that give us bold grapes for wine-making, outstanding porcini mushrooms…
52 Reasons To Love Sicily | Green Hillsides
52 Reasons to Love Sicily #1. From January to early May, Sicily’s hillsides and mountainsides are emerald green with waves of growing grain, fuschia with sweet Mediterranean clover (ask the sheep!), and golden with sinapis alba (white mustard) flowers. Palma di Montechiaro, Agrigento Province
Glorious Springtime View, Southeastern Sicily
A hidden corner of eastern Sicily in springtime View from Castelluccio, Noto, Sicily
It’s All About The View
Springtime in western Sicily
Learn What Makes A Good EVOO This Friday Online
What makes an outstanding #evoo (extra virgin olive oil)? This Friday, March 26 at 5PM Eastern, join me, Allison Scola of Experience Sicily with Giò Buonanno of Azienda Brancati for an online, synchronous olive oil tasting and discussion. You’ll learn what makes an excellent olive oil, how olives are cultivated, how olives are pressed into…
Foraging For Wild Fennel In Sicily
‘Tis the season for foraging wild fennel in Sicily. Not to be confused with the bulb fennel we have in our supermarkets in the United States, wild fennel is mostly fronds (the fern-like leaves), and it contains the best flavor when it is young. One finds wild fennel in the mountains and countryside. A keen…