For the last leg of our Italy trip, Julian and I parted ways – amicably of course. He had signed up for a self-guided biking tour around the heel of the boot of Italy (Puglia), while I did a small group tour of the same area focused on wine and food. He will write a …
We spent the next two weeks in Sicily travelling the triangle formed by the city of Palermo on the north-central coast, the island of Marettimo off the west coast, and the former Greek city of Agrigento which is located on the south-central coast. Our first stop was Scopello, a tiny hamlet that exists exclusively to …
On the advice of a you-tuber, we took the train from Naples to Syracuse in Sicily. Staff at our Naples B’n’B’ were politely incredulous. “That’s romantic,” one said. Romantic is not quite what we were going for. Most travellers take the ferry to Sicily — or fly Ryan Air for 10 euros. But we wanted …
Sodom and Gomorrah: that’s how Chiara, the charming owner of our Naples B’n’B described the rivalry between Naples and Rome. I remembered that Gomorrah was associated with sinfulness, but I had to renew my acquaintance with the Biblical story to understand exactly what Chiara meant. It turns out that both cities were destroyed by God: …