Experience Sicily

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  • It Might Capture Your Heart

    Sicily just might capture your heart like it captured mine!

  • Save on Small Business Saturday

    It’s Small Business Saturday. That means exciting stuff for you! As I prepare our 2018 multi-sensory, small-group tours and custom itineraries for our independent clients, I keep reminding myself that the most memorable moments of travel are interaction with locals. We survey all of our clients upon their return from Sicily, and more often than…

  • Castle on the Sea on the Gulf

    During this week of Ferragosto, many towns celebrate their patron saints, an act of devotion meant to thank them for the abundance received during the harvest season. Celebrations of the Virgin Mother are especially common. For example, in Castellammare del Golfo, pictured, this weekend they will celebrate Maria S.S. del Soccorso, which you can read…

  • 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…

  • Sicily Vacation 

    Like an accountant during tax season, I have been a travel professional before the summer travel season: very busy! Today, though, among all of the planning and details that Evelina, Madeleine, Giulia and I are working on for our clients traveling in the next month, I took some time to schedule my own vacation in…

  • I Dream of Sicily 

    During these dog days of winter, sometimes you just have to go to a happy place. Here’s mine: the marina of Castellammare del Golfo, photographed from what would have at one time been the drawbridge to the castle.

  • A Happy Place

    I wanted to post a photo that makes me smile, and Fiat 500s always make me smile, and so does any view of Castellammare del Golfo (Trapani Province, hence the TP on the license plate). Thank you for indulging me. I hope it makes you smile too. 

  • Twilight in Trapani Province

    Evening in Castellammare del Golfo, Trapani province 

  • La Cala: Palermo’s Ancient Port

    Today, Palermo’s La Cala is one of the city’s marinas. In ancient times, it was the principal port of the city (Today, the much larger, modern port is down the street.). La Cala has changed a lot over the centuries. On Day 11 of Experience Sicily’s Sept. 22-Oct. 4 Savoring Sicily tour, after a stimulating morning discourse about…