Tag: new year’s

• January 1, 2022

  Happy New Year! Cheers to Safe Travels In 2022!

  Happy New Year! Buon Anno! Wishing you a healthful, joyful, and prosperous 2022 full of safe travel adventures!

• December 31, 2021

  Lasagne For New Year’s In Sicily

  While sporting red underwear, enjoying lasagne for New Year’s is traditional in some parts of Sicily (NB there are many, many traditions according to your “church bell” zone, aka campanilismo.). Importantly, however, it isn’t the lasagne that you might think. This Sicilian-style lasagne is more like a broad tagliatelle cut how you like it… And…

• December 31, 2016

  Chase Away the Dark

  Let the fantastic monsters from Villa Palagonia (replicated on a wall down the street from the villa in Bagheria) chase dark spirits into the ether of history in order to make space for the good spirits of the New Year.  For information about New Year’s traditions in Sicily, visit my 2013 post.