#Sicily adventure travel

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Sicily adventure travel

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🌺Taormina, Sicily | eyes of Lina

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Sicilian Wildflower Garden

Photo: Ragusa, Sicily, Italy

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Mount Etna

Embark with me on a virtual ascent to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Mount Etna, the iconic volcano that graces the Sicilian landscape with its commanding presence. Let's journey to the heart of this majestic fire giant, exploring its volcanic craters, lava flows, and the enchanting landscapes that have earned it a place among the world's most captivating natural wonders.

In 2013, Mount Etna was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site, acknowledging its exceptional geological features and the ongoing processes that contribute to the Earth's dynamic evolution. This recognition emphasizes the need to preserve and understand the geological heritage of this extraordinary volcano.

Rise with the sun and witness the awakening of Mount Etna, an ever-active stratovolcano that has shaped the Sicilian landscape for millennia. Explore its vast slopes, where craters and fissures tell the story of the Earth's restless energy.

Marvel at the artistic expressions of Mount Etna as lava flows gracefully carve their way down the slopes. The blackened landscapes, adorned with intricate patterns of cooled lava, serve as a testament to the raw power and beauty of nature's creative force.

Embark on a journey to the summit craters of Mount Etna, where panoramic views await those bold enough to venture to its highest reaches. Peer into the depths of craters, feel the warmth of the earth beneath your feet, and savor the awe-inspiring vistas that stretch to the Sicilian coastline.

Discover the surprising biodiversity that thrives on Mount Etna's slopes. From hardy plant species that cling to life in the volcanic soil to wildlife that adapts to the ever-changing environment, Etna is not only a geological marvel but also a sanctuary for diverse life forms.

Envision the thrill of hiking Mount Etna's trails and participating in guided crater tours. Feel the crunch of volcanic gravel beneath your boots, inhale the crisp mountain air, and witness the ever-changing landscapes as you explore this living testament to the Earth's geological power.

Embark on a digital eruption—virtually ascend Mount Etna through captivating documentaries, immersive virtual tours, and stunning photography that captures the essence of this mesmerizing volcano. Let the power of technology transport you to the heart of Etna's majestic landscapes.

In conclusion, Mount Etna invites us to witness the grandeur of nature's raw power and the delicate dance between destruction and creation. When you're ready for a digital escape to a volcanic realm, Mount Etna promises to captivate and inspire, reminding us of the Earth's extraordinary and ever-evolving beauty. 🌋🔥✨🇮🇹

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Cefalu Land Rover Beach Life

Beach Life

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~Sicily Falls~ by Joshua Hermann: Joshua got out on the road to explore some of Louisiana's lesser known features during the Easter holiday. This scenic waterfall was one of the hidden gems I discovered in central Louisiana

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The bike trip (new pictures)

Tomasso, a 27 year old Sicilian man living in Milan. Tomasso had a deep love for and fitness enjoyed running often. He balanced his passion for health with his profession as a real estate broker. Alongside these interests, Tomasso had a deep passion for food and loved to cook. He often found himself exploring the culinary delights of his hometown, Milan, by frequenting nice restaurants.

While Tomasso enjoyed a variety of outdoor activities on his holidays, he particularly loved indulging in hiking, skiing, and bike tours. However, despite being an Italian, he had never taken opportunity the to explore Tuscany. This was mainly due to the fact that his family hailed from Sicily, and his travels were often divided between Milan and his ancestral home or other destinations abroad.

One day, Tomasso stumbled upon a brochure advertising a four-week culinary trip through the enchanting region of Tuscany. The idea of visiting little villages, trying local delicacies, drinking good wine, and relaxing in beautiful hotels beneath the warm Tuscan sun sounded absolutely perfect to him. Determined to embark on this adventure, Tomasso began training for his trip. He dedicated one to two hours each day to wearing a heavy backpack, as well as participating in various fitness exercises to achieve the perfect summer body just in time for his holiday.

When the day finally arrived, Tomasso packed his car and embarked on a scenic drive to his first destination. Much to his delight, he was greeted at a stunning hotel with a glass of Prosecco and a delectable buffet of cured meats and cheeses. Overwhelmed by the abundance of food and the enticing free-flowing Prosecco, he indulged himself to the point of feeling a little tipsy. Just as he was about to retire to his room and rest for his trip, he received an unexpected call dinner for. Confused, as he thought he had already experienced dinner at the buffet, Tomasso found himself faced with even more extravagant dishes. A vitello tonato served as the starter, followed by a large plate of delicious and rich pasta. Just when he believed the pasta was the course main, a great roasted chicken appeared before him. Unable to resist, he ate until he was uncomfortably full. And to his surprise, a bottomless tiramisu was served for dessert. Despite his overflowing belly, he eagerly devoured a second plate. The night was filled with restless sleep due to the excessive indulgence.

The following day began with a sluggish feeling, which Tomasso attempted to shake off with a carb-loaded breakfast. He then set off on a two-hour bike ride to his first destination, a dairy farm. There, he tasted a variety of amazing cheeses, such as burrata and aged cheese, accompanied by rich artisanal bread and fruit fresh from the farm's garden. After another hour of cycling, he arrived at an olive grove, where he enjoyed a delightful olive oil tasting, followed by homemade pizzas. The final stop was a winery, where he indulged in a tasting of many excellent wines, paired with bread, cheeses, and meats. The overindulgence caused him to feel a little tipsy. Fortunately, the tour operator offered the use of a bus to transport the participants and their bikes back to the hotel, allowing Tomasso to enjoy several more glasses of wine. Once back at the hotel, he was met with yet another amazing antipasti buffet, accompanied by Prosecco, followed by a four-course dinner. Despite his attempts to exercise self-control, Tomasso succumbed to the temptation of all the delicious food before him.

The ensuing days followed a similar routine with different locations. However, due to his excessive drinking at the winery, Tomasso found himself skipping the long bike rides. As the days went by, he couldn't help but notice aated blo feeling that never seemed to subside. His normal clothes began to feel uncomfortably tight, leaving him wondering how he had gained weight despite the long bike rides.

By the halfway point of his trip, Tomasso noticed that his once-pronounced abs were now hidden beneath a layer of fat. Consequently, he started skipping even more bike rides, as they were often paired with alcohol-related activities. This pattern continued, and he found himself becoming gradually bigger and less active as the weeks progressed.

By the end of the third and fourth weeks, Tomasso had practically discontinued any form of bike exercise, delegating the task to the tour guide. One day, while glancing at his reflection in the hotel mirror, he saw a full-blown belly staring back at him. Despite his growing size, he had no regrets. The tour had been an absolute blast, allowing him to immerse himself in the amazing specialties and cultural experiences of his own country.

The rest of the summer, Tomasso enjoyed the bottles of wine and various foods he had taken home as souvenirs. Unfortunately, he remained quite inactive during this period. As September approached and he reached for his regular clothes, he realized that none of them fit anymore. He knew it was time to go on a diet.

The following summer, Tomasso decided to book another culinary tour, this time in Sicily. Four weeks of indulgence awaited him, followed by two weeks of visiting family. However, his body had not fully recovered from the previous year's excesses, and he had only managed to shed a few kilos. This time, the bike rides were even more infrequent, while the food intake increased exponentially. The visits to family members provided even less opportunity for physical activity, as Tomasso found himself overstuffed with his mother's and aunt's delicious meals. By the end the of holiday, he had gained even more weight than the previous year, leaving him to question when he would ever manage to lose the excess weight.

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THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE by Thomas W. Knox (New York: Harper, 1894). Illustrated.

Adventures of two youths in a journey through Italy, Southern France, and Spain, with visits to Gibraltar and the islands of Sicily and Malta.

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Sicily incentive travel

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Ortigia, Siracusa, Sicilia 🕊️

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In my opinion, November 1 is too early for Christmas trees and Santa Claus. But it's never too early to remember the miracle of Jesus!

Photo: Catania, Sicily

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Adventuresses We Love - Jean Robertson and Kathleem Howell

Adventuresses Jean Robertson and Kathleen Howell loved cars and driving. In 1927, the two young women from Melbourne, along with their dog, Barney, set off on an epic adventure to cross Australia in Robertson's Lancia Lambda, an Italian sportscar. The left Melbourne in June, travelling to Adelaide before turning north towards Alice Springs and Darwin, then looping back through Queensland and New South Wales. The trip was sponsored by Shell Oil Compnay, who gave them the gasoline they needed in exchange for mapping their route. This was the first time large parts of central Australia were mapped.

It was not an easy journey - in addition to the usual issues that come with long roadtrips (breakdowns, etc.), there also weren't roads for much of the trip! They'd navigate by following telegraph lines over dirt tracts, and when the sands became too deep to drive over, they'd spread coir matting to give their tires some extra traction. When they arrived back home in late summer, Robertson and Howell had become the first women to cross Australia by automobile.

But the pair weren't done yet! In 1930, they set off to drive from Australia to England - with a stop in Sicily along the way to take part in the 1932 Monte Carlo Rally. While in England, the pair would indulge another of their passions - flying. Robertson and Howell were definitely ladies after Phryne's own heart.

Jean Robertson died in 1981, while Kathleen Howell passed in 2001.

Photo Credits: State Library of Victoria and Royal Australian Historical Society

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from my bookshelf

Pytheas of Massalia was a Greek geographer, explorer and astronomer from the ancient Greek colony of Massalia — modern-day Marseille, France. In the late 4th century BC, he voyaged from there to northwestern Europe, but his detailed account of it, On The Ocean, survives only in fragments, quoted — and disputed — by later authors such as Strabo, Pliny and Diodorus of Sicily. The Extraordinary Voyage Of Pytheas the Greek by the noted British historian of ancient maritime Europe, Barry Cunliffe, attempts to draw out the reality of what was an extraordinary sea journey, from the Western Mediterranean north along the Atlantic coast of Europe to the British Isles, then even further north, to the near-mythic land of Thule. Cunliffe makes a strong case for Pytheas being “the first European explorer”, while identifying the most likely locations of Thule, sought so avidly by 19th and early 20th century adventurers and artists.

James Hamilton-Paterson’s Seven-Tenths: The Sea And Its Thresholds, published in 1992, more than two thousand years after Pytheas’s On The Ocean, is an ambitious, expressive exploration of the vast aqueous wilderness that covers three-quarters of our planet by a writer of remarkable literary accomplishment (he was one of Martin Amis’s professors at Oxford). Plumbing humanity’s complex, multi-faceted relationship with the sea, Hamilton-Paterson writes vivid, meditative passages about, well, everything — fishing, piracy, oceanography, cartography, exploration, ecology, the ritual of a burial at sea, poetry, and even his own experiences living for extended periods on a small island in the Philippines.

Tom Neale’s autobiography, An Island To Oneself: Six Years On A Desert Island, describes an altogether smaller, more solitary world: the island of Anchorage, part of the Suwarrow Atoll in the South Pacific. Born in New Zealand in 1902, Neale spent most of his life in Oceania: after leaving the Royal New Zealand Navy, he worked for decades aboard inter-island trading vessels and in various temporary jobs ashore before his first glimpse of his desert island home. He moved to Anchorage in 1952 and over three different periods, lived in hermitic solitude for 16 years, with rare visits from yachtsmen, island traders, and journalists. Among the last was Noel Barber, a close friend of my late father: he gave my father a copy of Neale’s book, in Rome, shortly after it was published in 1966 (I still have it). Neale was taken off his beloved island in 1977 and died not long after of stomach cancer.

The Starship And The Canoe by Kenneth Brower, published in 1978, is an unlikely dual biography of a father and son that draws intriguing parallels between the ambitious ideas of renowned British theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson — who, in the early 1970s explored concepts for interstellar travel, settlements on comets, and nuclear rockets that might propel mankind to the outer reaches of the universe — and his wayward son, George, who lived in a self-built tree house 30 metres up a Douglas fir overlooking the Strait Of Georgia, in British Columbia and devised large canoes based on Aleut baidarkas in which to paddle north to the wild, uninhabited littoral of southern Alaska. Brower’s descriptions of long passages with the younger Dyson in the cold, sometimes fierce tidal waters between Vancouver Island and the Canadian mainland are gripping and I have read them again and again. It is, unarguably, my favourite book.

The late, New Zealand-born doctor and sailor, David Lewis, is not as widely known as he was half a century ago, even by avid readers of sea stories, but from his earliest memoirs in the 1960s — of his participation in the first-ever singlehanded trans-Atlantic race (The Ship That would Not Sail Due West), and of incident-prone voyages to far-flung coasts with his young family (Dreamers of the Day, Daughters of the Wind, and Children Of Three Oceans) — to his practical, first-hand studies of instrument-less ocean navigation among South Pacific islanders, (We, The Navigators and The Voyaging Stars) in the 1970s, Dr. Lewis was not only the late 20th century’s most remarkable and intelligent writer on the sea and small-boat voyaging but also one of its most adventurous. My favourite of his several books: Ice Bird, published in 1972, an account of a gruelling, almost fatal voyage from Sydney, Australia, in an ill-prepared, steel, 32-foot yacht to achieve the first singlehanded circumnavigation of Antarctica.

It’s said that spending time anywhere with Lorenzo Ricciardi, late ex-husband of Italian photographer Mirella Ricciardi, was an adventure. A film-maker and former senior advertising executive, once described by a British writer as “a penniless Neapolitan count”, he gambled at roulette to raise enough money to buy an Arab dhow, which, in the 1970s, with little seafaring experience and plenty of mishaps, he sailed from Dubai to the Arabian Gulf, and from there down the Arabian to coast of Africa, where the dhow was shipwrecked among the Comoros Islands. The Voyage Of The Mir El Ah is Lorenzo’s picaresque account (illustrated by Mirella’s photographs). Astoundingly, several years later, Lorenzo and Mirella Ricciardi completed an even more dangerous, 6,000-kilometre voyage across Equatorial Africa in an open boat — and another book, African Rainbow: Across Africa By Boat.

Italian madmen aside, it used to be that you could rely on surfers for poor impulse control and reckless adventures, on the water and off. Back in the late 1990s, Allan Weisbecker sold his home, loaded his dog and a quiver of surfboards onto a truck, and drove south from the Mexican border into Central America to figure out what had happened to an old surfing buddy — in between checking out a few breaks along the way. In Search Of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond The End Of The Road is a memoir of a two-year road-trip that reads like a dope-fuelled fiction but feels more real than William Finnegan’s somewhat high-brow (and more successful) Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.

Which brings me to Dana and Ginger Lamb. In 1933, these newly-weds would certainly have been looked at askance by most of their middle-American peers when they announced that they weren’t ready yet to settle down and instead built a 16-foot hybrid canoe-sailboat and set of on what would turn out to be a 16,000-mile, three year journey down the Pacific coasts of Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica to the Panama Canal. Dana’s 415-page book, Enchanted Vagabonds, published in 1938, was an unexpected New York Times best-seller and today is more exciting to read than the ungainly, yawn-inducing books produced by so many, more commercially-minded, 21st century adventurers.

First published in Sirene, No. 17, Italy, 2023.