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Home Tag Archives: Sicily

Tag Archives: Sicily

Getting a Taste of Palace Life in Palermo

By Stephen Brewer
in :  World Travel
elegant dining room at the Palazzo Lanza Tomasi

In Palermo, Arab craftsmen carpeted the Norman palace with glittering mosaics and 18th-century artisan Giacomo Serpotta fashioned fanciful scenes from stucco in chapels around the city. Few interiors in the exotic, enchanting, and at times exasperating capital of Sicily, though, are as enchanting as the stately dining room of the Palazzo Lanza Tomasi.

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T-Boy’s BEST Virtual Vacations

By Ed Boitano
in :  World Travel

You may not be traveling to far-away places in the immediate future, but we can bring them to you. Here's a series of T-Boy’s virtual trips, and we hope you'll be able to go there and to other distant destinations soon.

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Memorable Meals: Edible Milestones from Around the World

By Fyllis Hockman
in :  World Travel
Wednesday night pig roast at the Hermitage Inn, Nevis Island

Enjoying our first dinner during a group tour of Sicily, I turned to our guide and told him that the meal was excellent. This being Sicily, the reply was not all that surprising. “You can steal my money but don’t touch my food,” Alessio remarked. He followed that remark by claiming: “If lunch or dinner doesn’t have at least five courses, it’s just a snack.”

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Sicily, Italy: Where What’s Not on the Itinerary Is as Important as What Is

By Fyllis Hockman
in :  World Travel
Greek temple ruins

It happens all the time with Overseas Adventure Travel. I start out expecting to write about the trip itself – in this case, Sicily’s Ancient Landscapes & Timeless Traditions – and I end up writing about all the things that are not on the itinerary – what OAT refers to as Learning and Discovery. Sure, I wanted to focus on …

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Rome to Rome on the Royal Clipper

By Ed Boitano
in :  World Travel
the Royal Clipper

Stand by to set lower top sail,” shouted the captain. Backlit by a late Mediterranean sun, he made a striking figure in his maritime attire. “Pull sheets, lower top sail coming out!” I gripped firmly on the rope. “Heave! Heave! Heave!” commanded the first mate. My group of eight joined in unison as we pulled on the rope. I felt …

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