Experience Sicily

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  • Discover Eastern Sicily With Synchronous Chocolate Tasting

    Let’s eat chocolate from Sicily while dreaming about traveling there! Join Experience Sicily on Tuesday, Aug. 11 at 7PM Eastern for an online presentation about Sicily travel with a synchronous chocolate tasting. Sign up for Zoom meeting is complimentary. The artisanal chocolate (As is made in Modica, as in this photograph I took last summer.)…

  • #SeeYouSoonSicily

    I love my work. I especially love leading tours in Sicily. One year ago today in Modica, our Experience Sicily Life In A Remote Sicilian Town tour group took this selfie. We had so much fun together! I can’t wait to get back to this. #seeyousoonsicily

  • Sicily’s History Offers Us Knowledge For Today

    Sicily’s history offers us many lessons. Since the 13th century Modica (pictured) has been a prosperous and important city. For centuries it was the seat of its own county that enjoyed political independence and economic and cultural influence. The resource-rich surrounding landscape with agriculture as its economic engine has made Modica and Ragusa province wealthy…

  • Modica, Sicily And Saint Peter And Saint Paul

    Today is the feast day of the Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Peter, of course, is the protector of Rome (and popes too). But importantly (For my family especially, since my father is named Peter and I come from a long line of fishermen), he is the patron saint of net-makers, shipbuilders, and fishermen, and…

  • Cava D’Ispica, The Canyon of Ispica

    Cava D’Ispica (Ispica canyon nature reserve and archeological site) overlooking Rifugio Scirocco in the Iblean Mountains of southeastern Sicily

  • Beautiful Bougainvillea In Baroque Modica

    Bougainvillea draping the stairs leading to the Duomo di San Giorgio, Modica, Sicily

  • Remote Town, Day 9 | A Cascade of Baroque Sicily

    Live from Sicily! Day 9 of Life In A Remote Sicilian Town recap. Morning in Modica… Chocolate immersion at Dolceria Bonajuto … Yum! Look at that cascade of glorious darkness! Late Sicilian Baroque architecture and the bells of San Giorgio at 12noon. Lunch of traditional mixed antipasto and maccu (typical fava bean soup). Who else…

  • A Walk Through Thousands Of Years Of Human History In Sicily

    Always on the move, today I took a hike in Sicily with Nanni, a nature and walking guide, through the Cava D’Ispica reserve, a deep gorge that follows a now, usually dried up river. Fresh, young, and emerald green Acanthus mollis plants (known in English as bear’s breeches) covered our trail, and scores of caves…

  • Start The Day With Dessert

    LIVE Day 2: Experience Sicily 2018 Stirring Sicily East tour with Zest! (Lititz, PA) and Chef Nino Elia in Modica, Sicily… Today, we were with loveSicily, where in our cooking class, we learned about the centuries-old traditions of chocolate making specific to Modica. How awesome to start the day with dessert!