For the last week of our family trip to Sicily in August we booked a place by the sea with HouseTrip and it worked really well for us. Sampieri The property we booked is in the far south of the island in a small coastal village called Sampieri. Nothing much happens in Sampieri and that […]
10 reasons why Sicily’s Verdura Resort is great for families
Children who go on a Scott Dunn holiday to Sicily’s beautiful Verdura Golf & Spa Resort are so well looked after there that they may never recover from the experience. I don’t think that my two will ever want to go anywhere else after our trip there in July: my son actually asked me if […]
Staying on a farm in Sicily
Agriturismo Valle di Chiaramonte is one of two working farms owned by the Gulino family on the Italian island of Sicily. The main focus of the Gulinos is beef, dairy and olive oil production but they also have some rooms where you can stay at one of their farms. The agriturismo can host up to 20 […]
Verdura Golf & Spa Resort, Sicily
Google Camp I’ve just read on the New York Times website that Google is hosting an elite conference on the Italian island of Sicily this week. The conference is very hush-hush and is called ‘Camp’, according to the NYT. Among those attending, I read, are Arianna Huffington, Eva Longoria and the heads of various banks […]
Palermo street food tour
‘Mum, I could eat these for every meal.’ We’re in the back streets of Palermo in Sicily and my 11 year-old son has just had his first taste of arancini, a popular Sicilian dish. Arancini are fried rice balls which are stuffed with ragù sauce and peas or mozzarella and ham and which my husband […]
5 reasons why we love Italy
This summer we’re going to the Italian island of Sicily for our family holiday and I can’t wait. We’ve been to Italy more than any other place on family trips and that’s not just because we have dear friends and relatives there (my husband is a London-born Sicilian and I once worked as an English […]
Things to do in Rome with kids
This is a guest post by Lorenza Bacino, freelance journalist and travel writer. Lorenza’s lived and worked in France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Australia and is now based in London with her family (husband and two kids aged 11 and 8). Lorenza and her family took a trip to Rome recently. Here are some of the things they enjoyed doing […]
Flying Stansted to Comiso with Ryanair
I’ve changed my mind about Ryanair. After my last flight with the budget airline I decided that I’d never travel with them again if I could avoid it. Then I was invited on a press trip to the Italian island of Sicily, flying on Ryanair’s new route from London Stansted to Comiso in the southeastern […]
Things to do in Sicily with kids
Sicily is Italy’s largest island and is in the far south of the country, just across from the toe of the mainland. The island is home to many of my husband’s relatives – his parents came from there to live in London in 1959. We love going to visit his cousins, aunts and uncles there […]
Snowmobiling in Italy
I’m thrilled as I accelerate the snowmobile up the mountainside in the dark. I’ve never been on a snowmobile before and I feel like I’m in a James Bond movie. I’m on a press trip in Madesimo, a friendly little Italian ski resort in Lombardy near the Swiss border. In the garage area before we start […]
