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Roma street food

October 16, 2019

Last stop, Rome

Thankfully, a picture is worth a thousand words, as I am out of words. Our days here: wander, wonder, eat, repeat. Here is a pastiche(io) for you:

Filed Under: Travels Fall 2019 Tagged With: Bernini, BORGHESE Gallery, porchetta, Rome Graffiti, Rome streets, Tiber river

Pensione Trachina room

October 14, 2019

Travels in Sicily – Palermo to Scopello

October 11 Yesterday we spent church hopping, to see the mosaics created by Venetian and Egyptian artists for the Arab-Norman churches in the 12th century. The Venetians created these beautiful  Byzantine-style religious mosaics, while the Egyptians decorated floors, columns, and walls with elaborate geometric patterns, in the Islamic tradition of not rendering anything found in […]

Filed Under: Travels Fall 2019 Tagged With: driving in Palermo, La Capilla Palatina, Monreale, mosaics, Palermo, Pensione Tranchina, San Vito do Capo, Scopello, Zingaro Preserve

Evening soccer players, Palermo

October 9, 2019

Travels in Sicily-Cefalù & Palermo

October 5-Cefalù The beautiful Tyrrhenian Sea, aquamarine, jouncing and frothing, far out onto the horizon, with small columns of clouds that form over warms waters. Crowds on the beach, multitudes in the streets, we are squeezing our way to our B&B. Some tour groups come toward us, clogging the way, “like sheep” says Larry, and […]

Filed Under: Travels Fall 2019 Tagged With: B&B Lirma, Cefalù, Fiumara del’Arte, La Martorana, mosaics, Palermo, Teatro Massimo, Tyrrhenian Sea, Winter’s Journey

Villa Rainò

October 4, 2019

Travels in Sicily- The center

October 1-4 Thursday evening, October 3 I am watching a rainstorm come up the hillside toward Villa Rainò, the pensione where we are staying, in a valley at the base of Gangi. Gangi is the geographic center of Italy, a town grafted onto a rocky peak, altitude 1011m. This makes for gusty lower temperatures, hooray! […]

Filed Under: Travels Fall 2019 Tagged With: Caltagirone, Chiaramonte Gulfi, Gangi, marble inlay, Museo della Ceramica, Piazza Armerina, Ristorante Majore, stone steps, Villa Rainò

Modica underground chapel

October 2, 2019

Travels in Sicily-Modica

Sunday, September 29 Sicily: clogged with churches, so Sunday is full of bells. We did not go, so we don’t know how many Sicilians do. On our way to check out the flea market, though, we saw lots of families in “Sunday best”. Stopped by the 12th century church of San Nicolò Inferiore (a grotto […]

Filed Under: Travels Fall 2019 Tagged With: I Banchi restaurant, Modica at night, scicli

Noto steps

September 30, 2019

Travels in Sicily- Noto, Modica

Saturday, we left town with only one small detour, amen. Stopped to buy gas, couldn’t get the card accepted, but couldn’t get the €20 back when we tried cash unsuccessfully. Decided to let it go. Saw pomegranate and lemon orchards. Off to Noto, to try the best gelato, at La Sicilia. And it was good, […]

Filed Under: Travels Fall 2019 Tagged With: La Sicilia, Modica, Noto, Palazzo Beau, Passagiata

Siracusa Ortigia

September 30, 2019

Travels in Sicily

Siracusa-Sept.26-28 OMG, it’s time to head to Siracusa, and it is late afternoon! To the car, to the Autostrada (miraculously), and two hours into the dusk and dark to Siracusa, to our place on Ortigia, the old part of town, an island first settled by the Greeks nearly three thousand years ago. Getting into any […]

Filed Under: Travels Fall 2019 Tagged With: A Putia delle cose buono, Greek theater, Jewish quarter, Ortigia, Siracusa

Paterno Norman fortress

September 30, 2019

Travels in Sicily

Around Etna-September 24-26 On our journey around the western flank of Etna, we drove to Paterno first, took some photos for a friend whose ancestors emigrated from there long ago. The Normans occupied this part of Sicily for awhile, and they built a series of forts on hilltops. Here’s one.  Back on the road, past […]

Filed Under: Travels Fall 2019 Tagged With: Castiglione di Sicilia, Gole dell’Alcantara, granita, Hotel Federico II, Mount Etna, paterno, Toarmina

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