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Day 4 of 16 Days of Sicily | Wines, Vines, and Volcanoes
Sicily is teeming with grapes (and at least three active volcanoes), so I implore you, open your mind and heart to wines you haven’t heard of, and you will be so happy that you did. Nero d’Avola,...
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Day 5 of 16 Days of Sicily | New Friends
The main reason I started Experience Sicily is because of Sicilians. Yes, there are seven UNESCO World Heritage sites, delicious local foods, breathtaking landscapes, fabulous wines, and 3000 years of...
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Day 6 of 16 Days of Sicily | Inspire Your Sense of Spirit
Sicily for me is a sacred place–not only because my ancestors came from the island, but also because its natural beauty is awe-inspiring. The landscape and sea pulsate with the divine. No matter what...
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Day 7 of 16 Days of Sicily | Hyper Regional Cuisines
Within Sicily there are different cuisines. So, until recently, you would not have found a dish like this one pictured of busiate pasta with red shrimp from Mazara del Vallo dusted with pistachios...
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Day 8 of 16 Days of Sicily | Location, Location, Location and Breakfast
Sicily has many, many, many kinds of accommodations. Because I travel throughout the island (in 2022 and 2023, I spent six months over the course of the year traveling just in Sicily), I have seen a...
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Day 9 of 16 Days of Sicily | Get Dirty
When I was a child, my mother always dressed me in dresses, and I used to get into a lot of trouble because I liked to climb on everything (still do), run around in the mud (still do), dance in...
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Day 10 of 16 Days of Sicily | Dancing Dolphins
The seas of Sicily are glorious. There are three: The Ionian on the east side, the African or Mediterranean to the south, and my favorite, the Tyrrhenian on the north side of the island. They are...
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Day 11 of 16 Days of Sicily | Reaction to the Rubble
During the night of January 14 and 15, 1968 through early February 1968 western Sicily’s Belice Valley experienced a series of earthquakes. It was before the Richter Scale was employed to measure...
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Day 12 of 16 Days of Sicily | Festivals with Fervor
Whether it’s in recognition of an abundance of ricotta or the success of the year’s artichoke harvest or a city’s patron saint, Sicilians celebrate with fervor! For example, during these first days of...
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Day 13 of 16 Days of Sicily | A Mother of a Volcano
In Sicily, she’s known as Mamma Etna. Yes, she is a *she*, if even the word for volcano in Italian, vulcano, is masculine. Etna is a great mother. She is massive, and her influence and impact on life...
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