Food, Wine, and Travel from Sicily
Back in early April, Jess and I wanted to go for a road trip. We hadn’t been up the Northern coastline yet and Mario told us of a place called Tindari. Its located on the Northeastern coastline of Sicily and has a ton of history. The story behind Continue reading “Tindari and the Black Madonna”
For our 3rd Anniversary we decided to put together a little trip to Southeastern Sicily. We stayed at a great place in Marina di Ragusa called La Moresca and explored all around the area. With our anniversary being in October we found all the towns to be quiet with all the tourists long gone! This made for easy travel between the towns and we were able to see a lot of things over the Continue reading “Ragusa, Ragusa Ibla, Modica, Scicli, and Marina di Ragusa”
During the month of October, Sicily has it’s own version of Oktoberfest in the town of Zafferana. Zafferana is a cool town that is located on the East side of Sicily on the slopes of Mount Etna. Every Sunday during October they have a celebration with many vendors of all types and a biergarten of sorts. A lot of food to choose from including Continue reading “Zafferana Sicily”
Staying local we went to a casual seafood place near us called Zu Maru. We pass this place everyday on our way to work and it always seemed like a popular place. They also have a fresh seafood market next door that looks really good. Definitely a great little spot.
We went to Aci Castello afterwards, which is the town closest to our house. Its a very cool place with Continue reading “Zu Maru and Aci Castello”
We decided to get away for a long weekend and head to northern Sicily to Cefalu (pronounced: Chef – a- lu). We have wanted to go here ever since we got to Sicily because of all the great things that we have heard. Its a smaller town that is nestled in between a huge rock formation and the Tyrrhenian Sea. There is more info about Continue reading “Cefalu”
This will be the second time that we went to Enna, although last time we didn’t make it. Last time our trip got intercepted by the call of the factory outlet mall along the way. It takes about 1 hour to get to Enna from our place. Enna is in the smack dab middle of Sicily and has even gotten the nickname of “ombelico” of Sicily, which means Continue reading “Enna”
I thought it would be funny to show the differences between IKEA here in Sicily and back home in the States. There is a new IKEA in nearby Catania that is the only IKEA in Sicily. The store is pretty much the same as back home, but the cafe Continue reading “IKEA Catania”
We took a trip that included the town of Taormina and a nearby winery, Gambino Winery. We have heard nothing but good things about Taormina from several people so we were looking forward to seeing it ourselves. Taormina is about 20 minutes north of Continue reading “Taormina and Gambino Winery”
There were about 5 different trips that we took all together looking for places and I wanted to condense them down to one post. We had a good time looking at places and there were definitely some highlights and some lowlights. The cultural differences definitely came into play with Continue reading “Sicilian House Hunters International Sicily”