“SICILIANS BUILD THINGS LIKE THEY WILL LIVE FOREVER AND EAT LIKE THEY WILL DIE TOMORROW.” - PLATO (4TH CENTURY BC)
We drove, walked and most importantly ate (!) our way around the island of Sicily. As the homeland of Kate’s great grandparents, we’ve now learned more of Sicily as a place filled with people and land who have experienced centuries of violence, conquest and yet rebirth over and over again.
Roadtrip begins on the west coast
Trapani fish market
Salt flats
First of many gelato
Lucky enough to stay on an olive grove - Mandranova Olive Oil
Valley of the Temples, Agrigento
Men on their evening stroll in Favara
From the Greek temples to the Mediterranean
Over 500 year old olive tree overlooking Temple of Concordia
Modica chocolate shopping
Sandwich please
Afternoon granita
Sunset in Ortigia
Ragusa (and many other towns already getting holiday ready)
We drove over 1000km in total on highways, many tiny roads and back roads
Noto Cathedral (every town has many many many churches)
Largest Greek theatre of the ancient world in Syracuse
Fresh fish everywhere to buy
Iron Shadows by Mitoraj: the broken face placed in the large niche reminds us of the harshness of reality in a place that has been a theatre of captivity and labour, in the quarry that the Greeks used to build Syracuse. But the inscription "Osirion" reminds us of a faraway place, which is also a place of the soul where we can find a foothold in dreams, poetry and hope.
Fresh fish everywhere to eat
Fountain of Diana, Ortigia
Hiking up to nearly 10,000 on Mt. Etna in the snow was absolutely amazing (and absolutely challenging)
