by Andreea Hincu | Apr 7, 2026 | #guideSicily, #holidays, #Palermo, #tailormadetravel, #travel ideas
Every year, on the fourteenth of July, Palermo transforms. The streets fill with tens of thousands of people. The air smells of gunpowder and jasmine. A monumental float moves through the old town towards the sea. This is the Santa Rosalia Festival in...
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 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 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...
by Andreea Hincu | Mar 6, 2026 | #blog, #holidays, #sicily, #travel ideas
You start with one innocent question: “Taormina or Ortigia?” Ten minutes later you’ve got seventeen tabs open, you’re reading a forum post from 2016, and you’ve pinned a beach that’s “only 40 minutes away” which somehow becomes 1 hour and 40 the moment you land...
