GERACI SICULO - FOOTBALL, TENNIS, SLAUGHTER, CEMETARY and RELIGION.

In a nut-shell and memorable.

My preferences? Thank goodness for all those in-betweens.

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"LASCARI LASCARI MOLTO POPULARI" - a poem.

ETNA.
POMPEII.
LASCARI - SALINELLE BEACH.
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I visited Lascari Salinelle beach on various occasions during my ON THE ROAD Sicilian travels. I stayed close by the sea for 3 days in early July 1998 having crossed the Nebrodi mountains on foot via Capizzi to Caronia and then caught a coastal train to Lascari. I'd previously visited Lascari Salinelle in both 1995 and 1997 so I had a good idea what to expect in terms of beach-side life, it was a very popular place though fortunately not as sardine-packed as nearby CEFALU.
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Lascari Salinelle was to change in the years ahead for the worse with parts of the beach area being privatised and in the longer term that's had a negative affect on beachside area facilities, so that nowadays it is nothing like as easy going, accessible and pleasant a place to visit.
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This poem which is infected with my own brand of dry humour seeks to attest to the great popularity of Lascari Salinelle and was written during my 3 day stop-over there in 1998.

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"LASCARI LASCARI MOLTO POPULARI"

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Domenica.

How many Sicilians

came down to their beaches

here today?

Start counting backwards

bindfolded

from the top of Etna

facing towards Pompeii.

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Notebook 1998 (p79).

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HOLIDAY FOR A KING - SHORT NEBRODI POEM - SUMMER 2001.

I'm scrunching thro' the cucumber

I'm munching thro' the cheese

I'm listening to the Sicilian Sirrocco

rustling thro' the leaves

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Cow bells are making music

tiny birds do quietly sing

I'm here in the NEBRODI

A HOLIDAY FOR A KING!

Notebook 2001

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SUMMER 2009 IN PETRALIA SOTTANA - IAN CAMERON and COLONEL GADAFFI.

-----------------------------SAXUM PUB SHOT.

---------------- "COLONEL GADAFFI" -- CHILLIN' OUT

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Its not every day you find COLONEL GADAFFI in profile taking a bevy in the Sicilian sunshine.

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OK GOD GET YOUR FICARRA FINGER OUT!

----- AQUELLO CONCETTI and RICCARDO BERSILIO.

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Quite a big surprise to find the tiny community of FICARRA featuring in the >British press<. Desparate national lotttery obsessed times. I passed by back in the summer on 2001. FICARRA is in Messina Province on the relatively lower mountain hillsides towards the sea a little beyond the Nebrodi Region. The Madonie and Nebrodi mountain roadsides in my experience have a fair sprinkling of losers lottery cards. Hey ho and on we go!

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PARCO DEI NEBRODI - 1995 BURIED TREASURES!

Yet again bella LAGO BIVIERE DEI CESARO raises its lovely blogspot head for this short historical SICILY ABLAZE 1990’s excursion. Here is a link for an earlier SICILY ABLAZE brief BIVIERE blogspot.

In June 1994 I passed thro’ the NEBRODI and stopped off and slept near the LAGO BIVIERE – in the mid Nineties the beautiful flamenco tree you see photographed above stood dancing in the summer sunshine – alas this "flamenco beauty" is no more having sadly perished in the wintery stormy weather.

In 1994 as per previous excursions my backpack tended to get heavy with small accumulations and so on passing by the LAGO BIVIERE early-on during 1994’s trip (and intending to re-pass that way again later during the 3 week trip) I off-loaded and buried some food items under a stoney patch fairly local to the BIVIERE.
Alas the BIVIERIE “re-visit” did not materialise during that year’s excursion. However it sure did the following summer, in early August1995. So I also re-visited the actual “buried treasure” spot. The photographs above are shots of the foodstuff items exactly as they were 1 year later after being un-earthed.

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"SERPENTE BERLUSCONI" IN PETRALIA SOTTANA.

Serpente Silvio at the acqua posto on via garibaldi. Ospedale and ventinario very close by.

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