Chasing Montalbano: Scicli, Sicily
Mary Murphy
February 11, 2020
It took me forever to remember to pronounce Scicli as Sheekly and it’s not like I was short of teachers or correctors. Vigata was much
It took me forever to remember to pronounce Scicli as Sheekly and it’s not like I was short of teachers or correctors. Vigata was much
Montalbano likes the water. He likes to swim. And he likes to walk the beach. But looking at his place in Punta Secca and the
In July 2019, one of my favourite men in the whole wide world died. Italian Andrea Camilleri created the character Salvo Montalbano and when Camilleri
I’m not a great fan of caves. I may well have overdosed on them when we were in Georgia a few years back, but I
On what has become an annual event each February, the lovely M&M drove us around the island of Malta on a mystery tour. One of
‘Blessed is she who expects nothing, for she shall never be disappointed’ is a motherism that I think I’ve taken to heart. When I went
The older I get, the more nervous I get when I travel. No. It’s not nervousness, it’s anxiety. When I’m ready to come home, I
I’m easily confused. I have no sense of direction. I couldn’t find my way out of a paper bag on a good day. Had I
I’m not a particularly strong swimmer. And I like having control of a situation. No surprise then that snorkelling isn’t high on my list of
High on my list of things to see in Zanzibar was the slave monument by Swedish sculptor Clara Sönäs. I have a peculiar fascination with
