by Andreea Hincu | Mar 26, 2026 | #arancine, #blog, #holidays, #Palermo, #panelle, #travel ideas
Palermo does not do polite food. It does loud, messy, magnificent food. The kind that drips down your wrist, stains your shirt, and makes you wonder why you ever bothered with a tablecloth. This is a city where street food is not a trend. It is a tradition that...
by Andreea Hincu | Mar 26, 2026 | #beach, #blog, #driveinSicily, #guideSicily, #holidays, #mediterranean, #palermo airport, #trapani, #travel ideas
There are food festivals all over the world. Most of them are forgettable. Cous Cous Fest Sicily is not. Every September, the small fishing village of San Vito Lo Capo (on the northwestern tip of Sicily) transforms into one of the most extraordinary celebrations of...
by Andreea Hincu | Mar 24, 2026 | #beach, #blog, #sicily, #train, #ValdiNoto, baroque
There are places in the world that hit you before you have time to prepare. Ortigia Sicily is one of them. You cross a short bridge and turn a corner. Suddenly there it is golden baroque stone, turquoise water, a cathedral built inside a Greek temple, and a morning...
by Andreea Hincu | Mar 22, 2026 | #blog, #Etna, #guideSicily, #holidays, #sicily
Everyone thinks they know what to eat in Sicily. Pasta. Arancini. Cannoli. The greatest hits, endlessly reproduced in Italian restaurants from New York to London, from Sydney to Toronto. And yes, all of those things are extraordinary when you eat them in Sicily, made...
by Andreea Hincu | Mar 21, 2026 | #blog, #guideSicily, #spring, #travel ideas
Everyone knows about Sicily in summer. The beaches, the heat, the crowds. The Instagram photos that make it look perfect, but somehow never show the hour-long queue to park, the packed restaurants, or the sunburnt frustration of August. Here is the secret that locals...
by Andreea Hincu | Mar 19, 2026 | #blog, #holidays, #sicily, #spring
Imagine walking through a small Sicilian village on March 19th and stumbling upon an explosion of flowers, food, and music filling every corner of the street. No, it is not a film set. It is not a private party. It is Saint Joseph’s Day in Sicily, and it might...