Today, when I saw this shepherd with his sheep on the hillside as I drove across the middle of Sicily, I jumped out of the car hoping to record the splendid scene. It’s difficult to capture and communicate just how magnificent and green the island’s center is this time of year. Clouds, rain, and snow…
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LIVE, Day 5, Stirring Sicily East: The Land Teaches Us
We saw the landscape where they graze. We now understand their daily milking routine. We learned how their milk is used to make different cheeses. We tasted the cheeses made from all of these elements and the air and sun. Thank you to these gentle sheep for giving us sustenance!
Let The Land And The Locals Guide You
Happy Experience Sicily clients today enjoying a Jeep tour in the countryside of Agrigento Province with Pierfilippo Spoto of Val di kam. The best experiences happen when you allow the land to show you the way. (Photo Credit: Pierfilippo Spoto)
Let’s Talk Cheese: Part 1
Like a fine wine, cheese takes on the terroir, or the natural production environment, where it is produced. So, how does one begin to make excellent tasting cheese? It starts with the animal from where the milk that becomes the cheese comes, but first it starts from the grass and grains that the animal eats….
Christmas Presepio In Sicily
Scene from a Christmas presepio created by Zio Lillo (Uncle Lillo) in Sant’Angelo Muxaro.
Sicilian Precepio for Christmas
Scene from a Christmas presepio created by Zio Lillo (Uncle Lillo) in Sant’Angelo Muxaro.
A Shepherd and His Sheep
A Golden hillside. A sunny day. A shepherd and his sheep. Amunì! (Amunì means, “Let’s go!” in Sicilian.)
Sheep and Green Grass
Spring comes early in Sicily, and with it come the green grasses. Sheep love to eat the fresh green grass, and that makes us humans happy because that means that their milk, which is used to make ricotta, which is used to make cannoli, is naturally sweet! Oh, and those cannoli … Folks who know…
You In A Sicilian Saddle
I arrived in Sicily this morning, and meanwhile, one set of our clients in the region this week (We have three families traveling separately following custom designed itineraries,) was experiencing rural life with the locals, thanks to our friends at Val di Kam who sent us this photo. I love getting emails and texts from…
What I Learned in Sicily Today
Today in the countryside, the sheep showed me the way: be one with the earth. Become one with the earth with me in Sicily! Experience Sicily is offering 4 tours in 2017. Learn more and join me at http://experiencesicily.com