Sicily Scene

It's International Women's Day and in Italy that means there is mimosa blossom - or creative representations of mimosa blossom - eve...

Long-standing readers will know that I've always been a fan of the Sanremo Festival , which this year takes place on the evenings of  6t...

 

It was wonderful to see the return of our lovely chocolate festival, ChocoModica , from 7th - 10th December, the first time it had been held...

Three years, thousands of tears, thrice-tested (at least) recipes, thoughts of giving up and throngs of friends to thank for listening to me...

  In the midst of a situation so horrendous that most of us cannot bear to look at the images, an eighty-five-year-old Israeli woman who has...

As a child, I collected stamps, mainly because a lot of children did, and I would dutifully place them, with stamp hinges, in an album, now ...

 

I called my old friend the Modican poet Antonio Lonardo "my poet of the bridge" because he and his wife lived near the famous Guer...

Yes, it's been a while. Sometimes life intervenes but I'm back today to tell you how happy it makes me when a special event links my...

  Above: cassatelle di ricotta and traditional lamb pies, made by a friend's mother Let's not forget it's doggy Easter too, so ...

Young people I talk to often ask what my favourite cities are and I always reply that in Italy, they are Agrigento and Florence because both...

Here I am, almost a week late in posting about the 73rd Sanremo Festival of Italian Song , life and a storm (of which more below) having int...

I write this the day after the eighth anniversary of the death of my beloved dog, Simi, whom some of you may remember from posts of yesterye...