Easter in Sicily
Saturday 11 April 2015
We spent Easter in Sicily, enjoying great food and time with the family. The celebrations are widespread - the village of San Michele di Ganzaria parades religious statues around the streets and similar events take place all over the island. It was a bit different to the Easter parade in our home town of Dursley last year on Good Friday.
After Easter we explored more of this special island. The sense of lush green growth was even more apparent than when we briefly visited last May, but the weather wasn't yet as warm and settled. Indeed, as we walked higher in the Nebrodi mountains (between Randazzo and Floresta) it even snowed on us. Sicily is a lot higher than many people realise - we were walking here at about 1200m and Etna tops out at about 3300m, ever changing depending on recent eruptions. Fresh snow meant we abandoned plans to walk on Etna and went skiing instead, dropping down to the sea later in the same afternoon for a (chilly) dip in the sea. There can't be many places in the world where you can do that!
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