Sicily Scene

Once again, I am just back from a supermarket and once again, my pazienza has been sorely tried: This time it was a supermarket that I don...

Every two weeks, the blogosphere comes alive with something called a  Blog Off . A Blog Off is an event where bloggers of every stripe wei...

Just look at the plate of complimentary antipasti I got with my [non-alcoholic] aperitivo in Bar Cicara yesterday! I particularly lik...

A new bar, La Cicara - cicara being a Sicilian word for a little cup - has opened just across the road here and of course, I have been to e...

I love to see mounds of chestnuts on sale and to catch the aroma of their roasting as I walk home on autumn evenings in Sicily.  Brocco...

It is rare to meet with discourtesy when dealing with staff in shops or public service offices in Italy.  The Post Office may be slow and t...

It has been a beautiful sunny day, I am in the "land of lands" and on the territory of the Gattopardo . What is more, this mornin...

My [non-blogging] commenter Sally was asking about the Altro Posto the other day: if you are not a regular reader you may like to know tha...

Looking back at the week's posts, it occurs to me that I have been rather grumpy and it's nearly a week since I posted a food pictur...

- and any of you boys who care to read it, but, be warned ... it's a girly one! Yesterday my personal B-day had come, in that I just cou...

Continuing yesterday's story, the landlord's wife came with me to the same bank today. [I was cursing all the way as it is cold by S...

In Italy, things can appear to be going swimmingly for you; then suddenly you will come up against an element of Italian bureaucracy and if ...

On Saturday I bought some fruit and vegetables costing, in total, €2.60 from our nice greengrocer's. I had the 60 centesimi in change b...