Travel Sicily: Highlights of my Sicilian Sailing Trip

What a concept - learning Italian on a sailboat!!! In May of 2007 I did just that: with 4 other Italian students I boarded the Solitaire II, a 4-cabin sailboat, to study Italian sailing through the beautiful Eolian Islands of Sicily. We were in the capable hands of Francesco, our captain, and Franco, a gifted guitar player, both of them teachers from the Laboratorio Linguisitico Italian Language School in Milazzo, Sicily.

We spent a whole week sailing through gorgeous places such as Lipari, Salina, Stromboli, Panarea and Vulcano, and we had Italian lessons on the boat or in various outdoor bar patios on different islands overlooking the Mediterranean.

Here is a tiny selection of clips from a trip of a lifetime.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Italy
• Sicily
• Eolian
• Islands
• Lipari
• Salina
• Panarea
• Stromboli
• Vulcano
• Milazzo
• Cruise

[hawthornmad]

How incredibly lucky are you???!!! My Nonno is from the island of Salina and I travelled all the way there from My home in Western Australia. They are the most incredible group of islands with the most precipitous hills on which to build!

[travelandtransitions]

@hawthornmad : Thank you for your comment. Sicily is such a fascinating historic and beautiful place. And there are hundreds of thousands of people with Sicilian heritage. While I was at the language school, there was another young gentleman from Ohio and his grandfather also had come from Salina. This young man was there to learn Italian and reconnect with his roots. Feel free to read the article series about Sicily on my website in the section "My Stories & Photos".

[Eliosempreteso]

I had the same idea. I'm skipper on a sailboat in Sardinia and I was thinking to have guests that want to learn Italian due my wife is a teacher...

[ilmiglioblue]

This video is wonderful! It really gives a good depiction of the Aeolian Islands. The view from the top of Vulcano is spectacular.