Experience Sicily

Category: Swimming/Boating

  • Summer Breezes

    Curtain fluttering in the summer breezes of Levanzo island (off the northwest coast of Sicily) with Padre Pio altar

  • Buon Ferragosto!

    Earlier today I had my weekly Skype lesson with my Italian language teacher in Caserta, near Naples. After our lesson, my teacher Vittorio was on the way to the sea to meet up with his friends for Ferragosto, the most important holiday of the year for Italians after Christmas and Easter. Ferragosto is the more…

  • Secret Swimming Spots

    On our last full day in Sicily earlier this month, I took my intrepid fellow travelers Fred and Nola to another one of my favorite swimming spots. This one though, is mostly for locals, and definitely for experienced swimmers. Down a long staircase maintained by the Comune of Bagheria, the rocky cliffs are dotted with…

  • Levanzo Wasn’t Always Lazy

    The Egadi Islands, where we visited during day 3 of our Secret Sicily tour earlier this month, were the site of major battles between Carthage and Rome during the 3rd century BC. Levanzo, pictured, today, is a quiet, remote, sunny, sleepy island with gorgeous swimming spots. Back in 241 BC, however, for ancient Rome, it…

  • Bitter Sweet Sunset

    It’s always agrodolce… bitter-sweet… to return home. 

  • Dreamy, Gleeful Day

    Today was a day I’ve been looking forward to! From Trapani, on Sicily’s northwestern coast, we went to the Egadi Islands of Favignana and Levanzo for a full-day excursion. Early in the morning, being the curious culture and history-buffs that we are, my husband Joe and I took a walking tour through town and learned…

  • Flowing With The Go

    Castellammare del Golfo is our host for our first stop on the “Allison’s Secret Sicily” tour…. Not an official tour! Just 5 of us traveling together and going with the flow and following our whims for discovering corners of Sicily new to me and visiting some of my top favorites. After a very intense few…

  • The Joy of Boating

    Did I mention the boat excursion we took in Taormina on Thursday? For me, this was my favorite moment during our private family heritage tour last week. It was a dream come true to see the joy on everyone’s faces as the music blasted, they drank limoncello, and our guests danced in the sun and…

  • Remember How You Felt 

    Yes, the scenery is breathtaking… The swimming is superb. I could go on about the architecture and history. In the end, however, you remember how you felt. How Sicily bewitched you. You remember the service provided and the people you met along with the way.  Thank you to all of our hosts this week!