Salina is one of the seven volcanic islands that make up the Aeolian islands in Sicily. We first visited the Aeolian islands in 2017, and stayed in Panarea and Lipari, but we did day trips to Vulcano to climb the volcano and Salina. This visit we decided to go back…
We absolutely love visiting Sicily in Italy and have been many times. We’ve been to Cefalù and San Vito lo Capo twice and I’m often asked which is best. The answer is – visit both! But of course if you can only visit one, then hopefully this post with help…
Pantelleria and Lampedusa are both Italian islands off the mainland of Sicily. To visit either of them you need to fly or take a ferry. On a map, they don’t look that far from each other but you cannot travel directly between them – meaning that if you wanted to…
Pantelleria is a Sicilian island that can be reached by ferry or by plane. It is known as the ‘black pearl’ because of the blackness of its rocks, due to its volcanic origin. In fact, Specchio di Venere (Venus’s mirror), is a thermal lake that is a former volcanic crater!…
