The Solitary Walker

... for the last five hours all they had set eyes on were bare hillsides flaming yellow under the sun ... They had passed through crazed-loo...

So now it's vale Agrigento and its bougainvillea gardens ... ... its ancient olive trees ... ... its catacombs ... ... and its dry, sand...

Strung out along a ridge facing the sea, its series of Doric temples are the most captivating of Sicilian Greek remains and are unique outsi...

It took the best part of a day to travel by slow, provincial train from Noto to Agrigento. Worse still I had a hangover, as it had been my ...

Sicily's southeast has always been one of the island's wealthiest and most turbulently historic regions. In Siracusa's Parco Arc...

Alone! - / On this charr'd, blacken'd melancholy waste, / Crown'd by the awful peak, Etna's great mouth ... MATTHEW ARNOLD ...

You have only to side-step away from the Corso Umberto, Taormina's main shopping street, and you are in another world, a world of tranqu...

After climbing the steep cliffs near the sea, one reaches two summits connected by a half-circle. Whatever shape it may have had originally,...

After Cefalù we turned Sicily's north-eastern corner and edged down the coast to beautiful Taormina. (Sicily is commonly represented by...