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 Palermo celebrates...
by Andreea Hincu | Mar 30, 2026 | #Etna, #guideSicily, #sustainable, #travel ideas, Mountain
There are mountains you climb for the view. There are mountains you climb for the challenge. And then there is Mount Etna. Hiking Mount Etna is something else entirely. This is Europe’s largest and most active volcano. It rises to more than 3,350 metres above...
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 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 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...
