Wolfie is back in the USA
I haven’t been to the United States since 2003 but before then I was lucky enough to go there frequently for work when I also had a lot of fun, met a lot of Americans and interviewed more than a…
Sicilian food: the best this side of Heaven – or maybe even better.
Before taking leave of these Sicilian blogs, I thought you might like to see why Sicily was seen as a virtual paradise by so many of the ancient cultures that decided to settle here. The Mediterranean climate added to the fertile…
Palermo and Catania – Sicily’s exciting cities of culture.
In the middle of Palermo, the crossroads known as Quattro Canti divides this magnificent city into four historic quarters and, as I didn’t have long here, just one day, I used these four streets to walk around the major attractions…
Sailing round the Aeolian Isles of Lipari and Vulcano looking for Pirates and Greek Gods.
Whilst I was staying in Sicily last month, I spent a day touring some of the Aeolian Islands in the Tyrrhenian sea off the North Sicilian coast. A small boat called Mistral was home-base for a leisurely trip round these…
Wolfiewolfgang goes climbing Mount Etna to get to the top.
It was a lovely clear Sicilian morning when I made the perverse decision to take a trip up Mount Etna. I began to wonder why as the coach zig-zagged up the narrow road through the lava-strewn lower levels of this 3323m (10,902.2…
The Normans in Sicily – pale skins under the Sicilian sun.
Having Viking blood in your veins can be a disadvantage when travelling in hot countries. Over a thousand years ago, judging by some of the names on my family tree, Vikings married some of my Hebridean relations and left me…
Exploring Cefalù – a Sicilian town where everyone has lived.
I decided to go to Sicily for my holidays this year for a number of reasons. The sun, obviously, the sea too but there were other reasons. I can no longer imagine not going to Italy at least once a…
Exciting new development on wolfiewolfgang.com
I have just downloaded the technology to my iPhone that let’s me blog from anywhere. So this is my first attempt. The possibilities are endless! Here I am having a glass of wine in my garden. – Posted using BlogPress…
Wolfiewolfgang’s Sicilian adventures in the sun but under a panama hat.
I got back home last Tuesday after two weeks on the beautiful, sunny and interesting island of Sicily…. …where I had a room with a view…… where my panama hat and I survived the Mediterranean climate and the journey back…
Carolyn Bourne’s email on English manners says it as it is – no wonder Heidi Withers withers
Carolyn Bourne Carolyn Bourne has become famous. Not because she is an expert breeder of those splendid but under-estimated garden plants known as Pinks but because she took a dramatic step in trying to teach her future daughter-in-law a few…