Bella Sicilia!

In 2009 we traveled to northern Italy...Tuscany, Umbria, Cinque Terra, etc.  The landscape, food and the people were fantastic and it was one of our best trips ever.  So this time we've decided to travel to the hotter, more colorful, crazier south...all the way to as south in Italy as you can go: Sicily!

In southern Italy we will visit a Roman ruin buried for 2000 years, eat pizza in its birthplace, travel along one of the most amazing coastlines anywhere, visit a town famous thoughout Italy for its chocolate, attend a festival for a local patron saint, a festival where they cart around an ancient painting of the Virgin Mary, and festivals dedicated to the strawberry, local flowers and the cannoli. We will eat seafood fished out of the Mediterranean (hopefully that very day) and drink some of the best wine anywhere, including from vines right on the slopes of Europe's most active volcano (which, we've heard, is very active right now).  We will see mosaics located in churches and Roman ruins that are purported to be amazing.  We will drive and walk through mountain parkland with beautiful villages. 

It should be fun, so please check in every once in awhile to see what we're up to.