#28 Gallipoli – Departure
In Ortigia as well as in Gallipoli the natives use the word "rock" to indicate their island, just like the people from all the remote islands I have been so…
#28 Gallipoli – Arrival
This big leg almost took me four days! Every day the same story, as if following a script: southerlies in the afternoon, northerlies in the night. In between, long and…
#27 Ortigia – Departure
Ortigia is Siracusa's downtown. While getting there, although no one notices it, you cross a 30 m-long bridge. Which undoubtedly makes Ortigia an island. Ortigia is also the history of…
#27 Ortigia – Arrival
A lot happened during these 150 nautical miles. Flying fish landing onboard after hitting and startling me; thousands of huge ships all around from Malta's latitude northward; a deaf sound…
#26 Linosa – Departure
What should I write about Linosa... Perhaps the most authentic one, the best to stand against mass tourism, welcoming tourists instead of robbing them in such an impersonal way as…