(Awe)Some Day in Sicily

A 12km hike around Lake Ancipa in the Nebrodi National Park of Sicily offers a wonderful, relaxing and often unpeopled trekking experience.

Mount Etna, or Montebello (beautiful mountain), as it is known throughout Italy—Muncibbeḍḍu in Sicilian for those wondering—is one of the tallest active volcanoes in Europe with the height as of July 2021 measured at 3,357 m (11,014 ft), though this varies with summit eruptions. It is

Etruscans, B Corp and climate change. What does any of this have to do with ending a long debate and lending a hand to the next generations?

Featured Town When we arrived in Sicily in September 2021, nine months before moving here permanently, we left the U.S. feeling adrift and seeking to put a new wind in our sails. The pandemic had left us, like so many others, languishing in whatever direction life took us. So

Troina, the town in which we’ve chosen to settle in Sicily, is a very ancient city and was throughout both Greek and Roman times an important military stronghold due its geographical status, which, as you can see, offers commanding views in every direction, from Mount Etna to the Nebrodi

Gioacchino Rossini, the Italian composer famous for The Barber of Seville, wrote once that appetite is to the stomach what love is to the heart. If that’s true—and I have every reason to believe it is—then Sicily is both Demeter’s fork and cupid’s arrow. You

While here we've been posting quite a lot on social media, sharing the places, people and thoughts on Sicily. I thought I'd catpure some of the best ones and share them on the newseltter. Sorry, if you've already seen them and are now considering

In Franca's Words: When travel becomes less about filling every moment with purpose and more about finding purpose in every moment.