Cathedral of Syracuse in Ortigia Sicily Ever arrived in a place and immediately thought you could live there – that was the effect Ortigia had on Jonathan and me. The small island of Ortigia is the historic centre of Siracusa in Sicily. Slightly larger than one...
The Circumetnea Train Part One – Riposto to Linguaglossa The Circumetnea Train to Linguaglossa Jonathan and I love watching travel shows for inspiration for future trips. One such show featured a cute little train, the Circumetnea which went from Riposto through...
View of Catania From the Church of the Abbey of Saint Agatha We started our Sicilian adventure in Catania, Sicily’s second-largest city, after Palermo. It’s located on Sicily’s east coast facing the Ionian Sea and lies under the shadow of Mount Etna. Following the...
Leaving Catania, Sicily On A Rainy Day After a fabulous three days exploring Catania, it was time to move on to our next spot on our Sicilian adventure – Taormina. We had heard mixed reports about the place: tourists loved it, while locals and ex-pats hated it,...
When our friends at Kapuhala in Sicily invited us to stay for a couple of nights at their new boutique heritage farm stay, we leapt at the opportunity. Jonathan and I had been busy exploring the major towns and cities along Sicily’s east coast – Catania,...
Fort Saint Angelo on a Stormy Day From Our Balcony From our balcony overlooking Malta’s Grand Harbour, we can see the island’s iconic Fort St Angelo that’s located at the end of the Birgu peninsular. But despite having lived in the Three Cities for a year, we had...
Ġgantija Temples on Gozo, Malta Officially recognised by UNESCO as one of the oldest freestanding buildings in the world, the Ġgantija Neolithic temples, located just outside Xagħra in Gozo, are over 5,500 years old. Older than even the pyramids in Egypt and...
The Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum is a prehistoric burial site. It’s believed to date back to around 4000 BC, with more recent remains found dating to the Early Bronze Age (approx 1500BC). That’s older than the pyramids in Egypt and Stonehenge in England. We are talking...
