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• in Travel
  Sicily – A Land of Contradictions
  Can Sicily's natural beauty and positive points overcome the negative aspects?
  by funkywellies / on Jun 25, 2012
• in Travel
  How To Celebrate Easter In Italy
  Italian Easter traditions
  by funkywellies / on Mar 14, 2012
• in Travel
  A Trip To Italy With Jamie
  Visit Italy through the eyes and recipes of Jamie Oliver
  by funkywellies / on Feb 14, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “sicily”

 

• PKRA Tour 2013

  
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  The next PKRA freestyle tour stop will take place in Sicily, Italy. The lagoons and thermal winds of the town of Marsala will be the perfect venue for the third stop of the year. The lagoons are famous in the world of kite surfing and around Italy for having 28° water and 20 knot thermals every afternoon. The ...
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• How Sicily’s Mafia plotted to conduct hits with drones

  
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  A Mafia turncoat has revealed that Sicily’s Cosa Nostra was a pioneer in the use of killer drones, testing bomb-loaded remote-controlled aircraft in the early 1990s. Two decades before the U.S. began using Reaper drones to strike terrorist targets in the Middle East, mobsters in Palermo were testing ways to kill ...
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• A visit to ancient Syracuse

  
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  CATANIA, SICILY, ITALY–One of the treats of many small scientific meetings, like the International Bryozoology Association conference I am attending now, is that we can have a variety of short field trips for all participants. Today we packed into two buses and spent the afternoon and evening in the city of Syracuse ...
  6 days ago

• 36 hours in Cefalù

  
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  The theme for this month’s Italy Blogging Roundtable is ‘Grab Bag’. Or, for UK readers: Lucky Dip. In a happy coincidence, this described my recent weekend away in Cefalù pretty much perfectly, so here, for your delectation, is part one – part two to come next week. “Life is like a box of ...
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• Palermo Reflections

  
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  I recently made my Italian pilgrimage to the land of Nonna, Palermo in Sicily. Despite numerous visits to Italy, I had never ventured to the land of my DNA and I had absolutely no expectations other than wanting to see … Continue reading →
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• she seeks sea glass on sicilian shores…

  
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  How strange it is to hunt for polluted beaches and yet all around the world I’ve tried to locate the dirtiest strips of sand. While everybody else is tracking down waves, I’m tracking down garbage—using stolen afternoons on vacation or on assignment to find what nearly nobody else is looking for. It’s this ...
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• Return to the Pliocene at Altavilla Milicia, Sicily

  
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  Our last stop of the day on the IBA field trip was to a classic fossil locality on the north coast of Sicily about an hour east of Palermo. These are fine sandstones and marls preserving a diverse array of mollusks from the Pliocene, including the bivalves shown below. Over 130 bryozoan species have been recorded from ...
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• A Phoenician island city and its lagoon

  
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  MILAZZO, SICILY, ITALY–The pre-conference field trip of the International Bryozoology Association has now almost completely circled Sicily. We are in the far northeastern corner of the island on a rocky cape jutting into the sea towards mainland Italy. The drive here along the very steep and rocky north coast of ...
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• The ancient Greek city of Selinunte

  
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  MARSALA, SICILY, ITALY–During the afternoon the field party of the International Bryozoology Association drove south out of the Sicilian mountains back to the southern coast to visit the ruins of an entire Greek city founded in the 7th Century BCE and captured by the Carthaginians after a siege in 409 BCE. It is ...
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• A surprising bit of Permian in central Sicily

  
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  MARSALA, SICILY, ITALY–This morning the pre-conference field trip of the International Bryozoology Association headed into the mountains of central Sicily. The roads were steep and windy, as one would imagine, and the views of mountainsides, villages and fields spectacular. We were high enough to be in some small ...
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• Come on kids, were going to Sicily – on the train

  
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  A short break by rail to Sicily, with two overnight trains, allows you to show the kids a real volcano, plus the sights of Paris and Rome along the way The train journey from London to Catania in Sicily takes 28½ hours, which sounds wearisome. But split it into four sections, with two consecutive overnight trains, ...
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• An inspector calls: British tourists go on trail of Montalbano

  
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  Island proves big draw to UK fans of detective series broadcast on BBC4 on Saturday nights Sicilys connection with the real-life underworld once acted as a deterrent to foreign visitors. But now the islands link to fictional crime is luring a new wave of British tourists fascinated by the sun-drenched, riddle-strewn ...
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• Pliocene marls white as snow in southern Sicily

  
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  SCIACCA , SICILY, ITALY–Our last stop of the day on this International Bryozoology Association pre-conference field trip was to a massive outcrop of foraminiferan-rich marls known as the Trubi. A view of the cliffs with the sun setting behind them is above. My colleague (and roommate on this trip) Hans Arne ...
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• A cultural day in southern Sicily

  
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  SCIACCA , SICILY, ITALY–Most major conference geological field trips have a portion devoted to the culture and history of the region being explored. You can imagine the delights of this nature possible on a Mediterranean island. Today we started with the main square in the city of Noto in southern Sicily. This ...
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• A familiar hydrozoan with a beautiful name

  
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  SCIACCA , SICILY, ITALY–Far too late today for more than a short post. For the first time I met in real life an animal I speak about in my Invertebrate Paleontology course : the colonial hydrozoan Velella velella . We found thousands of them on Marjate Beach on the south coast of Sicily (see below). These ...
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• Photo Of The Day: Guatemalan Ice Cream Truck

  
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  Filed under: Food and Drink , Photos , Guatemala , Photo of the Day , Central America Adam Baker, Flickr Im traveling in Sicily this week, and was reminded how crummy the aptly named Continental breakfast can be in this part of Europe: a cup of coffee (the only time of day it is socially acceptable to ...
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• A Sicilian rocky coast

  
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  NOTO, SICILY, ITALY–Our last stop of the day on this International Bryozoology Association field trip was on the southeastern coast of Sicily just north of Syracuse at Scala Greca. There are several very small bays here which have been used for fishing boats since very ancient times. The whote rock is the Calcari di ...
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• A shelly bonanza from the Pleistocene of Sicily

  
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  NOTO, SICILY, ITALY–Our second stop of the day on this International Bryozoology Association field trip was in an unimpressive ditch (above) near Megara. But, of course, there is paleontological gold here: an assemblage of extremely well-preserved marine fossils. Colleague Andrej Ernst is examining a layer of ...
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• Spectacular shrimp burrows from the Miocene of Sicily

  
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  NOTO, SICILY, ITALY–The first stop on our International Bryozoology Association field trip today was a newly-opened quarry near Cugni di Rio in the dry southeastern countryside of Sicily, a view of which is above. New quarries are always interesting to geologists — a new view of the Earth’s bones. This is a ...
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