by Andreea Hincu | May 5, 2026 | #blog, #guideSicily, #mediterranean, #tailormadetravel, #travel ideas
Palermo is one of those cities that reveals itself slowly. The baroque churches, the Arab-Norman architecture, the street food and the noise are all immediately apparent. The street art, however, requires a different kind of attention. It lives in the side streets, on...
by Andreea Hincu | Apr 24, 2026 | #blog, #holidays, #tailormadetravel, #travel ideas, #ValdiNoto
There are foods that carry history inside them. Modica chocolate is one of them. Produced in the baroque hill town of Modica in southeastern Sicily, this is not chocolate as the rest of the world understands it. No cream, no butter, no lecithin. Just cacao, sugar and,...
by Andreea Hincu | Apr 13, 2026 | #guideSicily, #holidays, #tailormadetravel, #travel ideas
Some places earn their reputation. The Valley of the Temples in Agrigento is one of them. Standing among the best-preserved ancient Greek temples in the world, on a ridge above the southern Sicilian coast with the Mediterranean Sea stretching to the horizon, it is...
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 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...
