Experience Sicily

Category: Swimming/Boating

  • Live from Sicily! Remote Town, Days 5 & 6 | We are having such a great time!

    Live from Sicily! Days 5 & 6 of Life In A Remote Sicilian Town. We made pasta with the local ladies and learned how to make a very special dessert, unique to Licodia Eubea… based on their local grape cultivation. Then, a special birthday celebration with music, which included Rose learning how to play the…

  • Live from Sicily! Remote Town, Day 2

    Live from Sicily! Day 2 of Life In A Remote Sicilian Town. Time to explore Taormina (I went swimming at the foot of Isola Bella.) and then dinner together in the garden at one of my favorite spots in the countryside, Borgo Nocchiara. Talk about eating well! Oh, and then impromptu talking with the ladies…

  • Scaling the South Coast of Sicily

    Live from Sicily! I have been to Scala dei Turchi, the white marl stone cliffs of Sicily’s south coast, many times. I have stayed above them and swam here, but always approached from the street above. Finally yesterday, realizing a dream, as part of a Campagnia dei Cammini walking excursion led by Nanni Di Falco…

  • Southern Secrets, Days 7 & 8: Gold and Sapphire in Sicily

    Live from Sicily! Southern Secrets, Days 7 & 8 Experience Sicily and Feast on History: Gold and Sapphire in Sicily. Yesterday, along with the models from Dolce & Gabbana (during their photo shoot in anticipation of today’s big fashion show), we gazed at the golden Temple of Concord at Valley of the Temples. But they…

  • Southern Secrets, Day 2: Cooking On The Buffalo Farm

    Live from Italy! Day 2 of our Southern Secrets tour with Danielle Oteri of Feast on History and Experience Sicily. At the end, photos of the inn where we are staying. Beautiful. And photos from our epic cooking class on a buffalo farm this morning. Photographed are “the ladies” that make the milk that makes…

  • Terrace With A View in Sicily

    I’m reminiscing about the view from our terrace the past couple of weeks. Alla prossima!

  • If These Boats Could Talk

    Boats at Aspra, the fishing village of Bagheria In Aspra, there is a museum focused on anchovy fishing and all things anchovy: Museo dell’Acciuga di Aspra. Although I haven’t yet been, since this type of fishing was done by my family (in these waters) for centuries, while in Sicily the next few weeks, I hope…

  • Join Us For Fun In The Sun And In The Kitchen This September in Sicily

    We’re doing research today for our boat excursion (with Escursioni Team Shark Lanzafame) for September’s Stirring Sicily food and wine tour! Here’s an account of the beautiful coastline of Capo Zafferano. Meanwhile, I have to say the snorkeling at Le Formiche, an undersea mountain range that is a coral reef of sorts, was magnificent! I…

  • Capo Zafferano Light House

    Live from Sicily! On my walk this morning I ventured out to the Capo Zafferano lighthouse. I was so pleased to see that a restoration is underway! There are rumors that a restaurant may be in the works. Meanwhile, I present to you an image I had hanging in my New York City apartment for…