VATICAN FRUIT MACHINE - A VIA LUPO PETRALIA SOTTANA POEM.

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(Post script - there a few "FRUIT CASES" in PETRALIA SOTTANA!!) 


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MAMMA MIA! MADONIE GEOPARK BREAST IMPLANTS AND LOVE TREE's!!

GEOPARK BREAST IMPLANT (2005) - NO HEALTH HAZARDS SO FAR!!

Be assured that this alas increasingly antiquated Sicilian Madonie and Nebrodi Geoparks footslogger blogger doesn't remotely profess to be immensely knowledgeable about the mating and romantic procreative side of Sicilian Geopark life and its deepermost desires. For that, gentle reader you would need the truly qualified insights of Madonie and Nebrodi Geopark Geologists.

However, all is not lost because on occasion over the footslogging years quite by chance in the deeper fields and quiet waysides one has just occasionally certainly encountered quiet locations where evidential tracings were left showing that "love making" does go on away from or in the grassy wooded periphery of the built townships. One such erotic 1990's location stumbled upon was in the quiet wooded Pineta area above Petralia Sottana.

As per the above photos (from 1991) Love Trees were also in evidence along the peaceful quiet Madonie roadsides. And as for "breast implants" - well they are very much in the news these days - for miserably failing to come up to standard - and witness the above photo they too were occasionally in clear evidence.

Anyway these phenomenon failed miserably to put me off my stride. No more so than did used codoms occasionally scattered amid the otherwise luxurient peaceful countryside. Ah life goes on.

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PEACEFUL SOLITUDE AND POETRY 'NEATH SUN AND STARS. "MY SICILIAN BEDROOM".

Unobtrusive the SP52 quietly snakes along seawards in the distance.





You can see the "bedroom" fencing noted in the poem.

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These varied photographs together with the poem MY SICILIAN BEDROOM relate to an extremely peaceful spot along the Strada Provinciale 52 (SP52) a quiet country road that I walked on numerous occasions. It takes one from Bivio Comunello (see here) northwards all the way for about 30 miles (50 kms) to the northern Sicilian coast at peaceful Polina Marina. Usually, beyond the SICILIAN BEDROOM location, I would fork right at 6kms after reposing briefly at BIVIO CALABRO and climb the 9 kilometres up up and up to ST MAURO CASTELVERDE. I enjoyed legging it along these incredible peaceful summertime roads immensely. Strictly speaking this countryside area is to the east a little outside the MADONIE GEOPARK REGION itself.

With sufficient food, water, groundsheets and a sleeeping bag I'd stay put for the occasional single night at this location, and on one occasion (in June 1997) I stayed put for two nights just relaxing and very very greatly enjoyed the beauty of the location hence the poem MY SICILIAN BEDROOM. The days here progressed through amazing sunshine into clear starry peaceful nights - of course sometimes the skies would cloud over dramatically as per one or two of the above photos.

It was along this road in 1995 heading on further north (beyond ST MAURO CASTEVERDE) that I was utterly GOBSMACKED when - SEE HERE - a large winged beautiful blue butterfly flew straight into my momentarily opened mouth. And on yet another occasion high up on the climb to ST MAURO feeling tired in the baking heat I took shelter for a while naked to the waist and lo and behold a similar butterfly came and settled on my bare right shoulder - which caused me to go pretty boss-eyed to see him without making any movement that might scare him. It wasn't always enormous sunshine up to ST MAURO - in late September 1992 I was pursued closely by a very very violent tempest and had to sleep the night below ST MAURO in an old fortunately accessible family tomb.

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Still to come - eventually - "FROM GANGI TO MISTRETTA" - branching off along the SP52 from BIVIO COMUNELLO well before reaching ("MY SICILIAN BEDROOM") and legging it onwards by way of GIOVANNI NAPOLI's WOOD to MISTRETTA.

MISTRETTA IN THE RAW. TAKE YOUR PIC!

Three women early on Sunday 3rd July sweeping the main streets. There is a prison dead central in Mistretta - one wonders if this was an assignment. Anyway a surprise.
Mistretta rooftops.
Via Anna Salamone - skin flic 1.

Via Salamone - skin flic 2.
Heading eastward beyond the Madonie Mountains, before reaching those of the Nebrodi, we have the township of MISTRETTA just inside Messina Province. It has two highly regarded and very well cared for lovely Public Gardens. I have no idea how USA proselytizing Mormons fare in Italia but two such females in their early twenties button-holed me in one of the Mistretta public gardens - they weren't heavy going so we spoke for a while and they were under no illusion at the end of it that Mormonism for this South London Freethinker was not on the menu. It's remotely possible that in that hot sunshine in my shorts with brown legs they mistook me for Warren Jeffs - be very brave and click HERE to discover why. Shortly before the July 3rd 2011 chance Mormon interlude I'd wandered along a picturesque narrow Mistretta backstreet and lo and behold homesteads almost opposite one another in the same Street had the above displays of contrasting nudity on show. It was Click click take a pic! And then 'twas a hey and a ho and on we go. The Mistretta rooftops shot was taken through the peripheral public garden trees. Mistretta is a nice looking slightly curious town and well worth a visit. It has been featured in this blog before click HERE for details. .------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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"ICE CREAM DEATH WISH" - A POEM!

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GEOLOGICAL. PETRALIA SOTTANA 230 MILLION ANNI FA!

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According to London based World Renowned STOCKWELL GEOPARK's Research Department the Sicilian Madonie Geopark Mountains were under the sea 230 million years ago. Not basking in summer sunshine or winter snows like in modern times. The above image of Ultra Ancient PETRALIA SOTTANA shows it in all its deeply ancient historical CRABINIERI diversity.

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NOW WHICH WAY???? - CROSSING THE NEBRODI IN 1990.

CROSSING THE NEBRODI "A" to "N" -

(1993 NOTEBOOK insert!)

CROSSING THE NEBRODI "NOTEBOOK" 1990 (plus translation).

CROSSING THE NEBRODI "NOTEBOOK" 1990 - (plus translation).
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Back in 1990 there were no good maps to find your way across the lovely NEBRODI MOUNTAINS. I'd tried in the late 1980's to cross eastwards from the west - from PORTELLA FEMMINA MORTA to FLORESTA by way of BIVIERE di CESARO and BOSCO MANGALAVITI but the map I had was not detailed enough, and so the detail that did exist led me astray.
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So I tried crossing in the opposite direction. From FLORESTA heading westwards. In the end I made it but I still got lost a few times - beyond a certain point after heading west from FLORESTA. All I'd had to rely on - because the road just ended - was a compass. Trouble with a compass is that it can tell you a direction but sometimes heading in the correct direction proves very very difficult because of the way the land is in the direction you need to travel - sometimes it proved difficult t0 find a route because of obstacles etcetera etcetera so there were diversions and improvisations.
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My NOTEBOOKS came in very handy - and above are just a few page examples from my 1990 Notebooks - beneath each page of scrawl and scribble I have recently translated my words etc., and have re-used this information to make an illustrated postcard or two for friends just for amusement.
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Some of the above terrain I re-visited again this summer (July 2010) but some of it because of my increasing age now I will sadly not be able to pass along again. Also, there have been a few landslides that make certain very very solitary spots too dangerous to visit again.
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In a subsequent blogspot I will shortly feature one very lovely location in the vicinity of MONTE MALLARO - the latter is very much at the centre of the scribbled notes from the above 1990 Notebook pages.

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