White Almond Sicily

This year it will be twelve years since we bought our Sicilian home and just over fifteen years since we first visited and fell in love with the island. In this time we have had many adventures involving planes, trains and automobiles. It has been a while since I have written about our life in Sicily so in this post I have decided share some of our funny and sometimes scary adventures with transport. Planes In the winter season there are not as many direct flights from the UK to Catania as there are in the spring and summer seasons. When we were going through the process of buying our Sicilian home there were times when we would have to fly out last minute to sign papers, meet builders, etc etc. We purchased our house in winter so therefore sometimes we had to improvise by taking connecting flights. The easiest connection for us from London was via Milan so we used to book the first flight out of London into Milan then the last flight out of Milan into Catania and vice vers...

Cefalù is a small fishing village, now a resort thanks to its good sandy beaches, located on the northern coastline of Sicily. It is just over an hours drive east of Palermo and just over two hours drive west from Messina. The town lies on a strip of land between the sea and a huge promontory looming above. It is one of the most popular seaside resorts on the Tyrrhenian coast, is included in the list of "The most beautiful towns in Italy" and is part of the Madonie National Park. Cefalù was founded in the 4th century BC but was destroyed by the Norman Count Roger in 1063. It only regained prominence thanks to his son King Roger II who endowed the town with a cathedral decorated with exceptional Byzantine mosaics and made the town a bishopdom. The modern holiday resorts lie to either side of the town because the village has closed itself to the sea fortifying itself against storms with protective sea walls and its beauty is boasted inward. The cathedrals architecture ...

Pop up market Sicily began in 2012 in Sicily's second largest city, Catania. The market is a mixture of apparel, handmade accessories, art and design all made in Sicily accompanied by Sicilian musicians, local food and drinks. It has been made into a regular event and after just two years it became one of the most important markets in Italy. It has been featured in Glamour Italia, Vanity Fair, Vogue and many more publications. The market takes place around once a month in historical locations in and around Catania and this weekend for the fourth time it came to London at a new location, The Boiler House in The Old Truman Brewery, which is located in the popular East London area of Brick Lane. Created to bring to London an authentic Sicilian experience Pop Up Market Sicily transformed The Boiler House into a traditional Sicilian street market, just like the ones in Catania, but without the Sicilian sun and Mount Etna keeping a watchful eye, however the British late summer su...