COMERFORD WAY: Patrick Comerford: Italy 2015

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01 November 2015

A week visiting the classical
sites and churches of Sicily

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The garden at Saint George’s Church, Taormina, offers views of the Sicilian coast and the Ionian Sea (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2015) ...

25 August 2015

A change of boarding passes but no
chance to question an odd practice

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Why should I show my boarding pass at WH Smith’s in Heathrow? (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2015) Patrick Comerford After a long wor...

03 August 2015

A taste of Sicily in Bray in
the new Gatta Nera café

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A taste of Italy in Caffé Letterario Gatta Nera in Bray, Co Wicklow, this afternoon (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2015) Patrick Comerf...

02 August 2015

Singing with Newman on the journey home
after visiting the Anglican church in Taormina

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‘Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see / The distant scene; one step enough for me’ … the view from the terrace in the garden behind Saint...

When buying the bottle of wine
is better than buying the T-shirt

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A bottle of Grillo, from a vineyard confiscated from the Mafia (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2015) Patrick Comerford My week in Sici...

01 August 2015

Pistachios everywhere, but
no sign of Nelson anywhere

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Almost all the pistachios in Italy are grown on the slopes of Mount Etna, near the Nelson estate at Bronte (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, ...

Climbing Mount Etna … or at
least two-thirds of the way up

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Two-thirds of the way up the slopes Mount Etna ... there was still more to go (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2015) Patrick Comerford ...

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31 July 2015

A week visiting the classical sites and churches of Sicily

A change of boarding passes but no chance to question an odd practice

A taste of Sicily in Bray in the new Gatta Nera café

Singing with Newman on the journey home after visiting the Anglican church in Taormina

When buying the bottle of wine is better than buying the T-shirt

Pistachios everywhere, but no sign of Nelson anywhere

Climbing Mount Etna … or at least two-thirds of the way up

Just once, in a very blue moon … on the east coast of Sicily

Reading ‘The Sicilian Vespers’ once again … in Sicily

A visit to the site of Naxos, first Greek colony in Sicily