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1 month to understand, 1 month to fall in love!
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 3 April 2012
I started travelling when I was 20. As a student I couldn't afford a long stay. As a worker, things hadn't change.I fell in love with my Sardinia, as I've seen it for the first time. So quite honestly, I'm addicted to it, I'm a slow traveller!
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The Mafia in Sicily
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 27 January 2012
Sicily Week Destination: Sicily Book: The Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia Observed, by Norman Lewis (Original-1964 with postscript added in 1984; reviewed edition 2003.) If you were playing word-association, Sicily-Mafia might be your first reaction.
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The Leopard
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 25 January 2012
CONTEST OVER! Your prize today is movie/travel related. Enter before 3:00 a.m.MST Thursday morning. See how to win below. And remember every comment and new subscription counts toward the two grand prizes, even if you’ve won a daily prize.
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Finding Sicily in Books
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 23 January 2012
Today the very appropriate Giveaway Prize is the book that is being reviewed–by an author that loves literature as much as travel. Entries good until Wednesday morning. Please see details below.
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Italy Is All About The Food
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 4 January 2012
We ate a lot of amazing food in Italy. And then we went back for seconds.
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The Awesome Power of Mount Etna
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 28 December 2011
Mama Etna is an enormous earth-shaking, gas-spewing beauty.
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Alone In Catania
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 26 December 2011
While Dalene recovered from an illness, Pete explored Catania, Italy on his own.
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Taormina, Sicily Wishes You Were Here
Blog: Suzy Guese - 5 August 2011
On the streets of Taormina, I stumble over the clutter of antique shops spilling out into the streets. The clutter is not limited to objects, but also people. Taormina is not the sort of place you come to for anonymity, but rather to see and be seen. Throughout history, writers, artists, aristocrats, royalty and celebrities [...]
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The Aeolian Islands of Sicily Wish You Were Here
Blog: Suzy Guese - 8 May 2011
This week’s Wish You Were Here post comes from Matt McCall. As the weather is finally warming up, I find myself often daydreaming of past trips to the Mediterranean. On one trip to Sicily in the early Spring, I ventured to the Aeolian Islands to the northeast of the mainland. Only having one day to [...]
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Top Things to do in Sicily
Blog: Solo Traveler - 15 April 2011
Sicily has a reputation - yes. But it's also a fascinating destination with a lot to offer.
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Reader Questions: A Day in Palermo
Blog: My Bella Vita - 15 February 2011
I kicked off my new Reader Question series last week by offering up some of my favorite “stopping points” for travelers passing through Calabria from Campania. Today, we are heading over to Italy’s biggest island for a set of questions about its capital city.
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Lava Flows From Volcano Eruptions at Mount Etna – The Religious Version
Blog: The Travel Tart - Offbeat Tales From A Travel Addict - 4 February 2011
Lava Flows, Volcano Eruptions and Mount Etna – Crazy! Check out this photo of an old Lava Flow on Mount Etna, in Sicily (Sicily is the ‘football’ part of Italy...
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Southern Italy Snapshots: Sicily
Blog: My Bella Vita - 27 January 2011
A couple of weeks ago we kicked off our Southern Italy Snapshots series with five beautiful Flickr pictures of Calabria. Today, we are heading 10 kilometers off of the mainland to the world-famous island … Sicily. Sicily is Italy’s largest, and arguably its most famous, island.
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Eat, Eat, Eat. It’s Sicily.
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 23 September 2010
Destination: Sicily Book: Eat Smart in Sicily, (2008) by Joan Peterson and Marcella Croce A GUEST POST by Dr. Jessie Voigts People who love to learn will adore this travel guide. Eat Smart in Sicily is filled with history, culture, language, food, markets, recipes (!), photos and more. THIS is one of those books that [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library To comment on this post or search for related information, click on the link to A Traveler's Library
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Five Places to Go in Sicily
Blog: My Bella Vita - 7 July 2010
Sicily is one of the most diverse regions in Italy, so it is darn near impossible to narrow it down to just five places you should consider visiting. But I tried. A few months ago, I quizzed our Italian B&B guests, particularly those from Sicilia on their choice of top five places to go. Here’s [...]
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Safety Information for Americans and Others Wanting to Avoid the Mafia in Italy
Blog: Backpacking on the Cheap - 24 June 2010
Felicia Impastato was the mother of Peppino Impastato, a sicilian man who was killed because of his continuous protesting against mafia, a criminal organization. Creative Commons. Many people will tell…
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Ortigia Wishes You Were Here
Blog: Suzy Guese - 21 May 2010
I wrote an article for On UR Way Magazine last week about the lessons I learned while living in Ortigia, Sicily. I would love for you to give it a read, but in the mean time, I thought I would share some views of Ortigia by boat. One of my first few days in town, [...]
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Sitting On Italian Church Steps
Blog: Suzy Guese - 20 May 2010
When the chaos of the outside world grows, expands, and engulfs everything in my travel path, I head not to a museum, hotel, or restaurant for respite but rather to a church. Throughout Italy, a Catholic church seems to be the requirement in every town, along the same lines of having a supermarket or a [...]
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Travel Snapshots: Hugging Trees, Mosaics and Views in Sicily
Blog: Suzy Guese - 6 April 2010
When traveling throughout Sicily, most advise to pay a visit to Palermo. Near Palermo, the town of Monreale perches itself up at a high standing, figuratively and literally. What makes Monreale far from the real is the town’s Cathedral. From the outside, it doesn’t look like much. Go ahead and judge this book by its [...]
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Mt Etna Man
Blog: No Borders - 1 April 2010
Somerville, Mass - In case anybody is wondering about the new photo on my homepage, let me introduce you to Mt Etna Man.
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Messina: An Easy Day Trip from Central Calabria
Blog: My Bella Vita - 29 March 2010
The other day I was sitting in the office at our bed and breakfast, going through posts and comments and brainstorming ideas for this week’s posts. “Messina,” I thought.
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Where are you going? Trying To Find Taormina’s Redeeming Qualities
Blog: Suzy Guese - 8 March 2010
My experiences in Taormina, Sicily have always been less than positive. The first time I went to Taormina, I was studying in Ortigia and decided to take a train up to Taormina for the day. I found the town to be touristy and overpriced. I had the worst gelato of my life that day. I [...]
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My Travel Fears All Meet in a Sicilian Canyon
Blog: Suzy Guese - 19 February 2010
I am standing at the edge of a 20-foot cliff. I know. Twenty feet down is not so hardcore. Some high dives at country clubs are more elevated, but I am scared. The cliff curves down somewhat into a deep pool of water, or so I’m told. My entire group with me has already made [...]
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Where's all the Mafia at?
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 27 December 2009
Perhaps I'm a product of one too many gangster films.
