La Locanda del Postino
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Eat-drink-read-sleep-swim. Repeat.
... they think it’s already too cold to eat outside. Fabulous food and good wine again! My favorites: something they called “octopus caponata” (the most tender octopus I have ever eaten) and swordfish carpaccio wrapped around silky smooth ricotta cheese. Everything else was fabulous as well. We closed the day with the last of our limoncello on the balcony, along with some pastries I had bought that morning: pistachio bonbons and lemon ricotta pastries and ...
Pyrotechnics!
... down the mountainside like an old pro. So much for my hope that she’d keep the pace slow! Eventually we reached the vegetation line, and were surrounded by very tall bamboo-like grasses. (I later found out this is “broom”.) The sensation of skiing gave way to the sense that we were hiking down very steep beach dunes. After a while the ground got slightly more solid, the path became winding, and the broom grew even taller; now ...
Close Encounters of the Volcanic Kind
... s a constant depth, about two feet deep. When you reach down, you can pull up handfuls of silky smooth mud – and if you choose to do so, you can slather it on you as if you are in a spa receiving a two hundred dollar mud treatment. There is a constant low-level smell of sulfur but I did not find it to be overwhelming. I found the experience to be incredibly soothing. I really did not want to get out after 20 minutes! But Rob is a ...
Saints, Soccer, and Sweets
... This restaurant was very welcoming and homey, with inexpensive but very delicious house wine, and fabulous food. The antipasto that we shared was amazing. I followed this with homemade spaghetti with sardines and fennel; Rob had gorgeously presented stuffed squid. We also ordered melanzana caponata, a Sicilian specialty that I have been anticipating since the day we planned this trip. The food was all fantastic and our liter of house wine was rather generously poured. It ...
The most active volcano in the world
The island is superb with black volcano sand beaches, the most active volcano in the world, fishing boats perched at the water's edge and a small population of 400 people.
Lots of history here and my guide advised that most of the people left in the 1950's when a butterfly pest came to the island destroyed most ...
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