Concert on Sunday! Register at https://experiencesicily.com/sicilian-folk-music-concert/ Yes, this too is Sicily … On a snowy January day in Palermo Province (2019). The weather outside is frightful, and so, listening to an online concert-lecture of Sicilian folk songs with a bonus rendition of “Winter Wonderland” and more will be perfect this Sunday, Dec. 20 at 3pm…
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Sicily Is Dusted With Snow
Snow continues to cover the mountains, like San Calogero, pictured, over Termini Imerese. It’s put a damper on our plans today, to go southeast. Such weather is an anomaly in this semi-tropical climate, and the municipalities are not equipped to clean the roads of the ice and accumulation. We are all wrapped up, drinking hot…
Sicilian Travel Tips: When To Travel to Sicily
If you are ambitious and you correctly time your travel to Sicily, you can ski in the morning on Mount Etna and swim in the Ionian Sea in the afternoon–Not every day at the end of February or beginning of March, or the end of October, but some days. And you must really want to…
In Sicily, A Rare Event
The castle in Caccamo is covered with snow today, as is much of Sicily, a rare event! Thank you to Massimiliano Macaluso for your beautiful photo!
Sicily’s Winter Weather
Prospective clients often call me, hoping to plan their “winter escape” vacation in Sicily. It’s true, Sicily is warmer than the northeastern United States at this time of year, but it’s not as warm as you might think. Sicilians like to say you can ski on Etna (the surface of which is pictured) in the…
White & Black
The area around the crater of Etna, Europe’s largest active volcano, sports a black lava surface. So, when it snows like it did last week, as shown here, the contrast between the white powder and the hardened, black lava is stunning.
A Crater, the Wind, and I
This week we’ve traversed Sicily, and we’ll do it again tomorrow! These last few days, we’ve gone from beautiful rock stacks at Lo Scopello to today’s below-freezing winds and falling snow at the top of the volcano Etna! At one point on the trek, the wind was so strong, I thought I was going to…
Let It Snow
In a departure from the norm, I present to you a photo taken this morning by my cousin Evelina from her home in Bagheria. It snowed in Sicily last night–a very unusual occurrence! Everything has come to a standstill there today. Sicilians have no idea what to do with snow (except to look at it…