Palermo: Twinned with Accrington
We spent the week before last on holiday in Sicily, mainly on the west side of the island, but with a couple of days in the east so we could go up Mount Etna. Here are a few impressions, primarily of the history… If, as Alan Bennett rightly observed, ‘history is just one f*****g thing […]
Dead Admirals Society on Tour: Sicily
By the time this post goes live, we’ll be sunning ourselves by a poolside in Sicily. It’s complete coincidence, of course, but this ties in very nicely with last week’s guest blog from Gijs Rommelse, about the film Michiel De Ruyter: the great Dutch admiral perished in 1676 in battle off Augusta, on the east coast […]
