I will let the slideshow of the Yoga and Hiking in Sicily say it all! The slideshow is set to the music of Carmen Consoli called Madre Terra, Mother Earth. Carmen Consoli is from Catania, Sicily and has a soulful voice that is as rich as the Sicilian soil. Turn [...]
Darwin's an impressionable, charming, and very bright young guy in his 20s, originally from Mauritius, living in Catania. We met him last year at the villa, as he is the son of the villa's caretakers and he helps his parents with their workload at the villa. Those of you reading [...]
Was it one week or two? One hundred lifetimes lived in a single day Warm sun on my skin Within days, my skin goes brown, my eyes grow bright. A gentle breeze floats in from the sea. I am surrounded by beauty and smiles. How will I ever go back [...]
Our guide Graziella recited a poem, written by an anonymous poet in ancient times, which describes the legend of how Sicily came to be. She recited it first in the Sicilian dialect and then translated it into English. I cannot find the Sicilian words, but it was the loveliest of [...]
In 1958, Domenico Modugno, singer from the small Sicilian island of Lampedusa, wrote the famous song Volare. My guess is that most everyone knows the song, right? But what most people outside of Italy don’t know is that the original title of the song was Di Blu, Dipinto di Blu, [...]
