Sicilia - New waterproof Canon

Before this trip, I also bought a new camera that can go up to 10m under water. You can see the pictures down there.

I think the quality is ok but I still need to test it more although it was a good start. The pictures down  below, when we are in the limit between water and air are the best so far, what do you think?

Sicilia

Hola,

After some busy semester we went on holidays to Sicilia (and no, Peru wasn't holidays, we worked a lot there!) and we went to Palermo, Cefalu and crossed the island to near Catania. There,I stayed relaxing and cooking in the house we rent while Juli and family went visiting some local places such as the Etna volcano!


In the morning we went through some small villages to buy sea food to cook during the day and the famous italian mood was there. The first visit, they look a bit suspicious to you. On the second day they speak more with you and in the third day they become your friends!

They also teached us how to cook the octopus but they diverge between them how to prepare the octopus and we were almost in the middle of a family fight (the Octopus fight will come later)!

Streets of Palermo

Couple refreshing themselves with a good old ice cream

View on Palermo

The house we rented (Exceptional!)

View from the terrace

Siena - The city of the crazy horse race

Siena is a nice little tuscanian town that holds the Il Palio, a very traditional horse race in which it is not that uncommon to have horses unmounted in the end of the race.

There are some very nice videos about the Il Palio here. And also a good explanaition is always available in Wikipedia, including its religious origins.

But besides this, Siena presented us with delicious food, including their speciality, the Pici a long spaguetti-like pasta but thicker. The tuscany wine is also splendorous and there are different producers now a days that goes beyond the well know Chianti (other posts to discuss this).

Piazza del Campo with the Mangia Tower



The main square where the race takes place



The main square on sunset

Mangia Tower

Playing hide and seek in the small streets of Siena

Duomo di Siena

Maginificent marmor from the Duomo

Legend says that Siena was created by the son of Remus

Duomo's stripped wall

Internal area of the Duomo

Tagliatelle with rabbit

Pici with wild boad

Siena at night

According to many, the best ice cream of Italy (more to come in future blogs)

Groooooom serving ice cream!

Pisa - On our way to Tuscany

We called this trip the Giro d'Italia as we went from Milan to Sicily, including Liguria and Tuscany (ok, the south part is still missing, but to be completed on the next years), after Cinque Terre we stopped for a couple of hours in Pisa on our way to Tuscany. Nice town, take a look:

Cinque Terre - Liguria - Italy

The second stop was in Cinque Terre in the Ligurian coast. Cinque Terre is a set of 5 small villages within a national park named Monterosso, Vernazza, Coniglia, Manarola, Riomaggiore. There are many trails ot be done within those villages and the scenario is unique.

Besides the wonderfull scenarios on the trails, there are also somem beaches to refresh you after the walk (well, not really beaches but something like that) and the ligurian food. The most famous maybe be the local pesto (which is different from the Genovese) but the acciughe from Monterosso has a DOP (Denominazione di Origene Protetta) and it is very good.

I also bought a new camera which is water resistant and have all kinds of features, new pictures coming soon!

One of the trails in Cinque Terre



Vernazza



Riomaggiore

On the trails

Acciughe from Monterosso

Zuchini with its flower - delicious

Monterosso



Riomaggiore



Ice cream!!!