My Sicilian Roots
The roots In Motta Sant’Anastasia, the small village outside Catania where my father was born, a thousand-year-old olive tree lives and grows. Mystery clouds the knowledge of its actual age – who knows? Is it 1,000 years old? 2,000? I have never seen this tree, but it calls to me. I imagine its windswept, sun-worn […]
My Italian language full-immersive learning experience on two wheels!
The start of an Italian adventure I arrived in Catania for my Italian language full-immersive learning experience mid-May, before the weather had got too warm, having ridden my motorbike from Shropshire in the UK, via a ferry to Dieppe, and then Besancon crossing the Italian border to Genoa to catch the ferry to Palermo: this took […]
