We are two expats living in Sicily. Explore the people, food, culture, history and traditions of Sicily! Coming to Sicily? We do tour consulting, bookings and also small private and customized or small group tours. CIAO!
Hello, This is very helpful. I just want to ask if so you do a mortgage loan thru italian bank? If so, how is the process. We are planning to buy in Santo Stefano. Thank you
@rkomgm3932Күн бұрын
I am freakin loving your east coast accent Love from Australia
@francinemoloney24372 күн бұрын
What about goulash?
@YouMeandSicily2 күн бұрын
Yes! One of our favorites!
@ayladuman83022 күн бұрын
Eszter,budapest really beatiful city.My daughter live in budapest.I always visit,budapest.❤🇹🇷
@Loupadron20103 күн бұрын
OMG. Naomi is not a little girl she is a bellissima ragazza. Too bad she is not in her mid 30's. Hungarian American girls are giving Italian girls/women a run for their money in term of beauty, poise, class, elegance like this gorgeous young lady God bless her. What a pretty city is that Budapest. Never would have known that if not for this video. Thank you so much for sharing this delight.
@susanlombardo84443 күн бұрын
that is awesome that you’re able to celebrate with your mom and your family in Budapest. Have a fabulous time. Have you been to the thermal Hot Mineral Springs there? I heard just yesterday their spas have these Natural Thermal Hot Springs! Enjoy. from Pompano Beach, Florida 😘 Oh!!! you guys are talking about the pools now. The thermal, hot spring pools.❤
@susanlombardo84443 күн бұрын
that is awesome that you’re able to celebrate with your mom and your family in Budapest. Have a fabulous time. Have you been to the thermal Hot Mineral Springs there? I heard just yesterday their spas have these Natural Thermal Hot Springs! Enjoy. from Pompano Beach, Florida 😘
@nancymaranto143 күн бұрын
This show was extra special! Thank you Eszter Vajda, it was wonderful to see you 2 beautiful ladies walk us around Budapest! It was very interesting to hear of its history and its foods, I learned a lot! So happy to have visited there with you today. Travel safely home tomorrow, you are in my thoughts and prayers ❤️. Gratitude to You, Me and Sicily 💐
@YouMeandSicily2 күн бұрын
@@nancymaranto14 grazie!!!
@bernadettvajda68703 күн бұрын
I can’t believe I slept through this!!
@nanakomcentire76055 күн бұрын
What a beautiful reunions!! I am sure their ancestors are smiling in Heaven!!
@YouMeandSicily4 күн бұрын
Grazie
@marks.26136 күн бұрын
It rained twice in Calabria when I was there. It was fairly green for the end of July.
@vincenzaperriano8766 күн бұрын
Can you help me my dad was born argento. Im trying to get my Italian citizenship. Who do I contact to get his birth certificate? Please, help ty
I was really upset to hear about the drought in Sicily. The harsh reality is that with climate change most of southern europe is destined to become nothing more than a parched desert over the next hundred years. The good news is that in four hundred years scientists predict the earth will cool again after global warming. People who choose to remain in the desert will be doing much water desalination. Ciao.
@vincenzaperriano8767 күн бұрын
Ester, you look so nice on the video. Lv the hair cut.
@YouMeandSicily7 күн бұрын
Thank you !
@vincenzaperriano8767 күн бұрын
How is the pollution in Sicily?
@YouMeandSicily7 күн бұрын
Not as bad as other places and especially clearer in the mountain small villages.
@maurijk258 күн бұрын
Also if you take water and put it on the ground you see how colourful the mozaics were. Now it looks really the same …because of the age
@maurijk258 күн бұрын
I was there in 2022 … very very busy but nice. Be careful parking is pretty limited i think..
@YouMeandSicily8 күн бұрын
There is more parking now
@therealtoni8 күн бұрын
A beautiful video. But please change the narration that says the Italians worshipped St. Sebastian..... Catholics worhip only GOD. We honor and venerate saints and pray to them to intercede with God for us. Thank you!
@YouMeandSicily8 күн бұрын
@@therealtoni you are correct
@darrenmccarthy33469 күн бұрын
Going to Sicily on September 1 for two weeks. We will be on the western side of the island. Just got reassurances from our B & B host that all is okay there. We will be in the Balestrate area.
@jodidelucca41909 күн бұрын
Beaches of Ispica and Pozzallo are beautiful and sand shores!
@jodidelucca41909 күн бұрын
Ciao a tutti!
@janetlombardi23149 күн бұрын
Hi Eszter and Alfred. Thank you for the interesting and much needed update. I hope you're having a great time with your family Eszter. Much love 😊❤
@YouMeandSicily9 күн бұрын
GRAZIE !!!
@DrKathleenCasey9 күн бұрын
Actually the Italian government has been doing checks on quality of Italian olive oil and they have been finding some poor quality and contaminated oil. I think it is a little disingenuous to quote personal experience and to ignore some of the Italian scientific studies. Some corruption enters into this. Cross border oils etc .
@YouMeandSicily9 күн бұрын
@DrKathleenCasey that is a completely different issue. What you are talking about is the watering down of oil with other oils and colorings. Yes,they do a good job. However,I am talking about harvesting regulations. Apples and oranges.
@DrKathleenCasey7 күн бұрын
@@YouMeandSicily Not entirely apples and oranges as you say, they are looking at certain pesticides and fungicides in farming across different regions, as well as some effluent used in organic farming. Have friend who is senior scientist here Italy working on it. Yes they are also looking at watering down etc as you say. Quite a lot of work going on to protect quality of food and also the market for Italian exports of such.
@DrKathleenCasey9 күн бұрын
Why don’t the government consider desalination of sea water?
@YouMeandSicily9 күн бұрын
@@DrKathleenCasey 1.politics 2. Money. 3. Cultural resistance
@mikec7699 күн бұрын
Thanks for the update on the two important issues. We will be visiting the island in early September and find your channel very informative. Looking to forward to the "life time" experiences! Ciao.
@paulgooderham9 күн бұрын
I enjoyed Alfredo’s well reasoned speech and when Eszter put the government on blast it was a real role reversal! 😀
@Loupadron20109 күн бұрын
Guys today in 2024 the USA is all about the low skills, poorly educated that come from all over illegally to in the minds of the democratic party become future voters. This party and current president does not care or want the skilled, educated immigrants from Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, etc, etc. That is the sickness of the current political, social and economical climate in our grand ole USA. This is why more and more citizens are sick and tired of the abuses, unemployment, high crime and a decaying city after city in what is called blue (democrat run) cities, states. San Francisco, New York City is a cesspool. Thank you for speaking about the legal immigration with skills, diplomas that want to come to the USA to work and possibly live but legally and respecting the laws and American culture and our way of life.
@Loupadron20109 күн бұрын
Can we see the Danube River and parts of the city with all that beautiful architecture from the times of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy the Habsburgs? You guys look great and younger than your biological age. Are you wearing a dress or a blouse my mom thinks it is a blouse and that you look lovely wearing it and the short blonde hairstyle.
@YouMeandSicily9 күн бұрын
CIAO ! Grazie ! Next weeks video will be on Budapest. I was wearing a blouse. :)
@Loupadron20109 күн бұрын
One of the best way in my opinion to bring these civic problems and/or tragedies in Sicily is to address the ministry of Tourism and Culture in Sicily as well as the mayors of every city and town. They need to start planning and taking responsibility as elected officials and a ministry that promotes Sicily not just to Italy but to the whole world and solve the water infrastructure, as well as the roads, highways, bridges. Note: What happened to the burned terminal at Catania last year. I believe it was electrical not the horrific fires. There is another area to upgrade and make better the airports in the island.
@YouMeandSicily9 күн бұрын
Agree ! Great points!
@Loupadron20109 күн бұрын
The European Union is in cahoot with the globalist that meet in Davos and plan on how to enslave the masses in their sick demented minds tyrants, socialist, leftist, communist as well as most of the European governments. This is why there is so much going in with all of the agriculture sector, as well as the infrastructure, and illegal immigration followed by high crime, rape, thugery, gangs, hooliganism, etc, etc. The US is now going through all of this and the shock and awe of the attempted assassination of former president Trump. As a result the farmers, laborers, middle class, and lower class, single parents raising their children, the senior citizens and the very sick are all the victims the ones that suffer the most. Hungary has what seems to be a great president elected in a democratic way by its people that want freedom to live their lives as they see fit and want their country to be better all the way around and tough laws for the criminals, thugs, gangsters, drug traffickers, etc, etc.
@newsjunkie300010 күн бұрын
I cannot get enough of these wonderful olives! Best in the world.
@susanlombardo844410 күн бұрын
Wow, you are going to be in Budapest for Christmas. I thought maybe I would come down to Catania to meet you both at Christmas time. Any recommendations of places to go to the week of Christmas! Ciao!
@YouMeandSicily10 күн бұрын
We will go early December to Budapest for a few days, but spend most of December in Sicily!
@susanlombardo84449 күн бұрын
@@YouMeandSicily I will be in Sicily during Christmas. I am coming alone to learn Italian. A challenge, I have been wanting to learn for years and I pray being submerged in the culture will get me to be conversational! 🙏🙏 It would be great if we could meet up at some point.. From Pompano Beach, Florida. 😘
@thewebhorse9 күн бұрын
Hi, this is Silvio. I'm Sicilian and Ezster's friend. As italian mother tongue I could help you to learn Italian. You know to speak right to a native is the best way to learn and or to improve the language. I can state it cause when (sadly seldom) I can speak to some mother tongue, I became more fluently and I get to speak more naturally. If you'd be interested we could speak each other by Skype or by some else way. You'd learn Italian and I I'd improve my rough English.
@Skolman7010 күн бұрын
Al, would you be willing to be giving info on getting records from city hall in Catania last week that I had a hard time getting due to renovations. Also, knowledge of getting with someone to translate a book my dad had done when visiting of our family history from Sicily. I understand fee basis thanks
Amen Al! I experience that as well when I came from Catania when I was 4 in 1970. Proud of where I come from
@Skolman7010 күн бұрын
I arrive in Rome on July 20th had a wonderful time there, saw the Pope from his window giving his blessing from the Basilica on July 21 and was on KZread as the camera was panning the crowd. It was HOT. MT Etna did cancel my plane all day on July 23 but, they did fly people to Palermo and, at 8pm they did resume flights to Catania on July 23. I did take a bus that night from Palermo to Catania. Catania was very beautiful and got to see all the places that I got to roam around when I was a little kid before coming to the U.S. The Hotels there in Catania had lots of water, and tourists running around. Restaurants and stores had lots of food. Alfredo, as my first time back to Catania since I was 4 years old when leaving there to U.S. I was crying too. It’s the emotional feeling of coming back to this beautiful country where I grew up at. Keep up the great work you both do on your channel. Ciao.
@thewebhorse9 күн бұрын
Hi bro, this is Silvio. I'm of Catania me too, and your words made me emotional. Remember that the Sicilian's blood isn't water. I mean we sicilians have got a huge and unbreakable link with our own roots and even if someone of us expate never lose him identity and sicilian soul. Welcome back in your land!
@Skolman709 күн бұрын
@@thewebhorse Silvio nice to meet you and yes never forget your roots even though my niece told me to go back where I come from even though she forgot who her mother is to me. People in Rome and Catania thought I was an American I said No I’m Sicilian and they couldn’t believe it. Then they said, they can hear it in my voice when speaking to them whether in Sicilian or English. The sad part of my history is, all my relatives from both sides of my mom and dad is passed away. I only have an uncle who is my dad’s brother oh and only 3 cousins of my dad’s brother’s kids. By the way, after watching the live video of, You Me and Sicily, there is a KZread video on, why Sicilians are not Italians. How cool is that. Let’s keep in touch Silvio. Ciao.
@cosimiam10 күн бұрын
I’m Sicilian and my husband is Hungarian decent. We’re waiting for the Sicilian/ Hungarian tour. Think about it. ❤😊 Also from New Jersey
@YouMeandSicily9 күн бұрын
GRAZIE !
@AnthonyRappa-hm1no10 күн бұрын
I heard many years ago that there’s a underground river in partinico that is big enough to supply water for all of Italy is this not true
@ni777610 күн бұрын
Nat from New Jersey
@ni777610 күн бұрын
Hi guys! Greetings from New Jersey.
@valxydi11 күн бұрын
I am curious about the artists from North Africa, how did they know about Homer's Iliad desciption of Odysseas machinations of the cyclop and his escape from the cave with his sailors, and why would the Sicilians of that era who were Greek would need North Africans to come and do mosaics, an art that they knew for 1500 years as the mosaic bathtub of King Nestor shows at his palace in Pylos Greece dated 3300 years old?
@YouMeandSicily10 күн бұрын
Remember that Alexander first and Rome second had tremendous influence in that area for centuries. One was Macedonian ,the other Latin influences.
@valxydi7 күн бұрын
Alexander was Greek Macedonian as I am Greek Spartan, furthermore the Greeks from Sparta, Messina, Corinth, and so many other places in Greece were there more than 600 -700 years before the Romans even existed and named the island Sicily which means oats in Greek, because the earth there produced vast amounts of premium quality of oat grain. I know the history of my ancestors very well learning it for 12 years in school!
@donnav621911 күн бұрын
This is where my grandparents are from Cefalu and Monreale. Thank you for the tour.
@lifeatthefino279312 күн бұрын
Thank you for this video, I saw today a post on Facebook about a British journalist that wants to write an article about climate crisis in Sicily. She was looking for people to interview. She decided not to come to Sicily but looking for people online. The reactions were not so good! Another journalist that wants to write a fear mongering article to keep tourists away! She doesn't understand that it hurts people directly financially not be able to rent out their airbnb or hotels. Like you said, drought has been happening for centuries and will always happen. Ugh, just my 2 cents!
@YouMeandSicily12 күн бұрын
@@lifeatthefino2793 so true! Fear mongering at its worst!
@kurlyyan78412 күн бұрын
I’m from California living in Armenia but now I’m thinking of buying a house either in Armenia or Italy or France I want to start my life somewhere beautiful you know. Italy is beautiful I don’t know and the houses are cheap to buy but you’re right I have to learn the language. There’s allot to think about
@robinperniciaro112213 күн бұрын
Thank you for doing this video on Mezzojuso where my ancestors came from.
@YouMeandSicily13 күн бұрын
So glad you enjoyed it !!!
@dianejohnston925613 күн бұрын
Pay particular attention to the fact that parts of Enna have been blazing for 8 days!
@YouMeandSicily13 күн бұрын
@@dianejohnston9256 we have had a LOT worse!
@tizianacuscito14 күн бұрын
💚🤍❤Ezster and Alfredo.
@Rittlesleo16 күн бұрын
Your videos bring such joy to us. You are a blessing. May God continue to shower you with His grace🙏
@YouMeandSicily15 күн бұрын
Thank you!
@lorrainerosenblum218216 күн бұрын
I've recently discovered your channel & am enjoying to videos. We have just started to plan a trip to Sicily in the Fall of 2025 & its become my go to to help me draw up a plan for our visit. Mosaics are my first love & I appreciate the detail you showed in this video. The villa is on the top of our list! Thank you.
@YouMeandSicily16 күн бұрын
Fantastic ! Let us know if you need help planning your tour .
@gp267016 күн бұрын
*the younger generation is almost embarrassed to speak Sicilian.
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Hello, This is very helpful. I just want to ask if so you do a mortgage loan thru italian bank? If so, how is the process. We are planning to buy in Santo Stefano. Thank you
I am freakin loving your east coast accent Love from Australia
What about goulash?
Yes! One of our favorites!
Eszter,budapest really beatiful city.My daughter live in budapest.I always visit,budapest.❤🇹🇷
OMG. Naomi is not a little girl she is a bellissima ragazza. Too bad she is not in her mid 30's. Hungarian American girls are giving Italian girls/women a run for their money in term of beauty, poise, class, elegance like this gorgeous young lady God bless her. What a pretty city is that Budapest. Never would have known that if not for this video. Thank you so much for sharing this delight.
that is awesome that you’re able to celebrate with your mom and your family in Budapest. Have a fabulous time. Have you been to the thermal Hot Mineral Springs there? I heard just yesterday their spas have these Natural Thermal Hot Springs! Enjoy. from Pompano Beach, Florida 😘 Oh!!! you guys are talking about the pools now. The thermal, hot spring pools.❤
that is awesome that you’re able to celebrate with your mom and your family in Budapest. Have a fabulous time. Have you been to the thermal Hot Mineral Springs there? I heard just yesterday their spas have these Natural Thermal Hot Springs! Enjoy. from Pompano Beach, Florida 😘
This show was extra special! Thank you Eszter Vajda, it was wonderful to see you 2 beautiful ladies walk us around Budapest! It was very interesting to hear of its history and its foods, I learned a lot! So happy to have visited there with you today. Travel safely home tomorrow, you are in my thoughts and prayers ❤️. Gratitude to You, Me and Sicily 💐
@@nancymaranto14 grazie!!!
I can’t believe I slept through this!!
What a beautiful reunions!! I am sure their ancestors are smiling in Heaven!!
Grazie
It rained twice in Calabria when I was there. It was fairly green for the end of July.
Can you help me my dad was born argento. Im trying to get my Italian citizenship. Who do I contact to get his birth certificate? Please, help ty
@@vincenzaperriano876 email me [email protected]
I was really upset to hear about the drought in Sicily. The harsh reality is that with climate change most of southern europe is destined to become nothing more than a parched desert over the next hundred years. The good news is that in four hundred years scientists predict the earth will cool again after global warming. People who choose to remain in the desert will be doing much water desalination. Ciao.
Ester, you look so nice on the video. Lv the hair cut.
Thank you !
How is the pollution in Sicily?
Not as bad as other places and especially clearer in the mountain small villages.
Also if you take water and put it on the ground you see how colourful the mozaics were. Now it looks really the same …because of the age
I was there in 2022 … very very busy but nice. Be careful parking is pretty limited i think..
There is more parking now
A beautiful video. But please change the narration that says the Italians worshipped St. Sebastian..... Catholics worhip only GOD. We honor and venerate saints and pray to them to intercede with God for us. Thank you!
@@therealtoni you are correct
Going to Sicily on September 1 for two weeks. We will be on the western side of the island. Just got reassurances from our B & B host that all is okay there. We will be in the Balestrate area.
Beaches of Ispica and Pozzallo are beautiful and sand shores!
Ciao a tutti!
Hi Eszter and Alfred. Thank you for the interesting and much needed update. I hope you're having a great time with your family Eszter. Much love 😊❤
GRAZIE !!!
Actually the Italian government has been doing checks on quality of Italian olive oil and they have been finding some poor quality and contaminated oil. I think it is a little disingenuous to quote personal experience and to ignore some of the Italian scientific studies. Some corruption enters into this. Cross border oils etc .
@DrKathleenCasey that is a completely different issue. What you are talking about is the watering down of oil with other oils and colorings. Yes,they do a good job. However,I am talking about harvesting regulations. Apples and oranges.
@@YouMeandSicily Not entirely apples and oranges as you say, they are looking at certain pesticides and fungicides in farming across different regions, as well as some effluent used in organic farming. Have friend who is senior scientist here Italy working on it. Yes they are also looking at watering down etc as you say. Quite a lot of work going on to protect quality of food and also the market for Italian exports of such.
Why don’t the government consider desalination of sea water?
@@DrKathleenCasey 1.politics 2. Money. 3. Cultural resistance
Thanks for the update on the two important issues. We will be visiting the island in early September and find your channel very informative. Looking to forward to the "life time" experiences! Ciao.
I enjoyed Alfredo’s well reasoned speech and when Eszter put the government on blast it was a real role reversal! 😀
Guys today in 2024 the USA is all about the low skills, poorly educated that come from all over illegally to in the minds of the democratic party become future voters. This party and current president does not care or want the skilled, educated immigrants from Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, etc, etc. That is the sickness of the current political, social and economical climate in our grand ole USA. This is why more and more citizens are sick and tired of the abuses, unemployment, high crime and a decaying city after city in what is called blue (democrat run) cities, states. San Francisco, New York City is a cesspool. Thank you for speaking about the legal immigration with skills, diplomas that want to come to the USA to work and possibly live but legally and respecting the laws and American culture and our way of life.
Can we see the Danube River and parts of the city with all that beautiful architecture from the times of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy the Habsburgs? You guys look great and younger than your biological age. Are you wearing a dress or a blouse my mom thinks it is a blouse and that you look lovely wearing it and the short blonde hairstyle.
CIAO ! Grazie ! Next weeks video will be on Budapest. I was wearing a blouse. :)
One of the best way in my opinion to bring these civic problems and/or tragedies in Sicily is to address the ministry of Tourism and Culture in Sicily as well as the mayors of every city and town. They need to start planning and taking responsibility as elected officials and a ministry that promotes Sicily not just to Italy but to the whole world and solve the water infrastructure, as well as the roads, highways, bridges. Note: What happened to the burned terminal at Catania last year. I believe it was electrical not the horrific fires. There is another area to upgrade and make better the airports in the island.
Agree ! Great points!
The European Union is in cahoot with the globalist that meet in Davos and plan on how to enslave the masses in their sick demented minds tyrants, socialist, leftist, communist as well as most of the European governments. This is why there is so much going in with all of the agriculture sector, as well as the infrastructure, and illegal immigration followed by high crime, rape, thugery, gangs, hooliganism, etc, etc. The US is now going through all of this and the shock and awe of the attempted assassination of former president Trump. As a result the farmers, laborers, middle class, and lower class, single parents raising their children, the senior citizens and the very sick are all the victims the ones that suffer the most. Hungary has what seems to be a great president elected in a democratic way by its people that want freedom to live their lives as they see fit and want their country to be better all the way around and tough laws for the criminals, thugs, gangsters, drug traffickers, etc, etc.
I cannot get enough of these wonderful olives! Best in the world.
Wow, you are going to be in Budapest for Christmas. I thought maybe I would come down to Catania to meet you both at Christmas time. Any recommendations of places to go to the week of Christmas! Ciao!
We will go early December to Budapest for a few days, but spend most of December in Sicily!
@@YouMeandSicily I will be in Sicily during Christmas. I am coming alone to learn Italian. A challenge, I have been wanting to learn for years and I pray being submerged in the culture will get me to be conversational! 🙏🙏 It would be great if we could meet up at some point.. From Pompano Beach, Florida. 😘
Hi, this is Silvio. I'm Sicilian and Ezster's friend. As italian mother tongue I could help you to learn Italian. You know to speak right to a native is the best way to learn and or to improve the language. I can state it cause when (sadly seldom) I can speak to some mother tongue, I became more fluently and I get to speak more naturally. If you'd be interested we could speak each other by Skype or by some else way. You'd learn Italian and I I'd improve my rough English.
Al, would you be willing to be giving info on getting records from city hall in Catania last week that I had a hard time getting due to renovations. Also, knowledge of getting with someone to translate a book my dad had done when visiting of our family history from Sicily. I understand fee basis thanks
@@Skolman70 sure. Send me an email..
@@Skolman70 [email protected]
Amen Al! I experience that as well when I came from Catania when I was 4 in 1970. Proud of where I come from
I arrive in Rome on July 20th had a wonderful time there, saw the Pope from his window giving his blessing from the Basilica on July 21 and was on KZread as the camera was panning the crowd. It was HOT. MT Etna did cancel my plane all day on July 23 but, they did fly people to Palermo and, at 8pm they did resume flights to Catania on July 23. I did take a bus that night from Palermo to Catania. Catania was very beautiful and got to see all the places that I got to roam around when I was a little kid before coming to the U.S. The Hotels there in Catania had lots of water, and tourists running around. Restaurants and stores had lots of food. Alfredo, as my first time back to Catania since I was 4 years old when leaving there to U.S. I was crying too. It’s the emotional feeling of coming back to this beautiful country where I grew up at. Keep up the great work you both do on your channel. Ciao.
Hi bro, this is Silvio. I'm of Catania me too, and your words made me emotional. Remember that the Sicilian's blood isn't water. I mean we sicilians have got a huge and unbreakable link with our own roots and even if someone of us expate never lose him identity and sicilian soul. Welcome back in your land!
@@thewebhorse Silvio nice to meet you and yes never forget your roots even though my niece told me to go back where I come from even though she forgot who her mother is to me. People in Rome and Catania thought I was an American I said No I’m Sicilian and they couldn’t believe it. Then they said, they can hear it in my voice when speaking to them whether in Sicilian or English. The sad part of my history is, all my relatives from both sides of my mom and dad is passed away. I only have an uncle who is my dad’s brother oh and only 3 cousins of my dad’s brother’s kids. By the way, after watching the live video of, You Me and Sicily, there is a KZread video on, why Sicilians are not Italians. How cool is that. Let’s keep in touch Silvio. Ciao.
I’m Sicilian and my husband is Hungarian decent. We’re waiting for the Sicilian/ Hungarian tour. Think about it. ❤😊 Also from New Jersey
GRAZIE !
I heard many years ago that there’s a underground river in partinico that is big enough to supply water for all of Italy is this not true
Nat from New Jersey
Hi guys! Greetings from New Jersey.
I am curious about the artists from North Africa, how did they know about Homer's Iliad desciption of Odysseas machinations of the cyclop and his escape from the cave with his sailors, and why would the Sicilians of that era who were Greek would need North Africans to come and do mosaics, an art that they knew for 1500 years as the mosaic bathtub of King Nestor shows at his palace in Pylos Greece dated 3300 years old?
Remember that Alexander first and Rome second had tremendous influence in that area for centuries. One was Macedonian ,the other Latin influences.
Alexander was Greek Macedonian as I am Greek Spartan, furthermore the Greeks from Sparta, Messina, Corinth, and so many other places in Greece were there more than 600 -700 years before the Romans even existed and named the island Sicily which means oats in Greek, because the earth there produced vast amounts of premium quality of oat grain. I know the history of my ancestors very well learning it for 12 years in school!
This is where my grandparents are from Cefalu and Monreale. Thank you for the tour.
Thank you for this video, I saw today a post on Facebook about a British journalist that wants to write an article about climate crisis in Sicily. She was looking for people to interview. She decided not to come to Sicily but looking for people online. The reactions were not so good! Another journalist that wants to write a fear mongering article to keep tourists away! She doesn't understand that it hurts people directly financially not be able to rent out their airbnb or hotels. Like you said, drought has been happening for centuries and will always happen. Ugh, just my 2 cents!
@@lifeatthefino2793 so true! Fear mongering at its worst!
I’m from California living in Armenia but now I’m thinking of buying a house either in Armenia or Italy or France I want to start my life somewhere beautiful you know. Italy is beautiful I don’t know and the houses are cheap to buy but you’re right I have to learn the language. There’s allot to think about
Thank you for doing this video on Mezzojuso where my ancestors came from.
So glad you enjoyed it !!!
Pay particular attention to the fact that parts of Enna have been blazing for 8 days!
@@dianejohnston9256 we have had a LOT worse!
💚🤍❤Ezster and Alfredo.
Your videos bring such joy to us. You are a blessing. May God continue to shower you with His grace🙏
Thank you!
I've recently discovered your channel & am enjoying to videos. We have just started to plan a trip to Sicily in the Fall of 2025 & its become my go to to help me draw up a plan for our visit. Mosaics are my first love & I appreciate the detail you showed in this video. The villa is on the top of our list! Thank you.
Fantastic ! Let us know if you need help planning your tour .
*the younger generation is almost embarrassed to speak Sicilian.
Very sad!