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Giro di Sicilia 2023

The Race Across Beauty Winner Alexey Lutsenko The Giro di Sicilia 2023 ended on Friday with the "queen stage" finishing in Giarre , not too far from us in Siracusa so why not go see it? Bikes on train work very nicel…

Giro di Sicilia

Giro di Sicilia 2023 2022's program Finally! Barely three weeks before the start, RCS has published the Tour of Sicily route for 2023 . We were starting to wonder if they'd even run it but on the local TV news came the a…

Carnevale 2023

CARNEVALE Acireale 2023 Some photos from Carnevale 2023 in Acireale , an easy train ride north from S iracusa . They call this the most beautiful version in Sicily and after a few years of missing 'em due to the pandemic th…

Winter in Sicily

Winter in Sicily Along the Rossana Maiorca trail north of us. Apologies if you're shoveling snow now, but this is as wintry as it gets here. Pro teams used to come down here for winter training as we've noted before but …

Xmas Day 2022

XMAS DAY 2022 Heather & Larry with a little mountain in the background BEST WISHES TO ALL!

Thanksgiving 2022

Thanksgiving in Italy Of course nobody but Americans celebrate this in Italy, but WTF? Why not roast a stuffed turkey (or chicken in our case) and enjoy all that goes with it? Put the bird in the oven and get out the bikes! That…

California Dreamin'

California Dreamin' Or not? Did someone hand-carry these from Italy? What makes them Italian anyway, do they just throw some dried oregano in there?  Mamma Mia! We couldn't afford to live in the USA these days by the l…

Giro 2022 Avola-Etna

The circus comes to town! La Corsa Rosa came back to home soil on Monday to be greeted by rain! Yep, sunny Sicily, where some journalist remarked they'd need an acclimation-day to get used to the searing heat of Italy's…

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