La Brace

The night before the free weekend began, a group of ten of us went to a small restaurant in the heart of Cefalu called La Brace. One of us looked it up beforehand and read that it is one of the better restaurants in town, but is usually not very crowded or publicized due to…

Posted by Alexander Geyelin on June 1, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Video Tour – Siracusa

Posted by Alexander Geyelin on June 1, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Interview with Daniella – Education

For my interview, I spoke with Daniella, who works at Scooter-for-Rent and has rented scooters to several of us over the past few weeks. Daniella was born and raised in Cefalu, so we spoke about his education and the schooling system he went through as a child. His early years of education sounded very similar…

Posted by Alexander Geyelin on May 30, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Hiking Mount Etna

  This past Sunday, we left Cefalu at around 7:30am to start driving east toward Mount Etna. The drive was about three hours, and we split it up by stopping at the most hectic and chaotic gas station I’ve ever seen. After we navigated the massive mob of people trying to buy some of the…

Posted by Alexander Geyelin on May 24, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Boat Rental

  On Saturday, the 20th, four of us planned to rent a boat and drive it around the region. We stopped near the villas to pick up some food to take with us, then walked to the Cefalu marina and rented a motorboat for the half-day. After Soccy got the price decreased by $10, something…

Posted by Alexander Geyelin on May 20, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Cefalu Cooking Demonstration

On Wednesday, we took a bus into the mountains by Cefalu to watch and participate in a professional cooking demonstration. The chef prepared four courses for us all, mostly using his home’s outdoor kitchen – first, two different types of arancini rice balls, with one filled with eggplant and cheese and the other Bolognese sauce….

Posted by Alexander Geyelin on May 17, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Observation Blog – Lunch at Piazza Duomo

From about noon to 1pm on Monday, I sat in the Piazza Duomo at one of the restaurants (Duomo Ristorante) and observed the scene there. There are four or five restaurants and cafes with tables outside in front of the cathedral, which were populated with tourists and locals alike – there was a fairly wide-ranging…

Posted by Alexander Geyelin on May 15, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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Pizzeria in Finale

A couple of days ago, a few of us, after seeing so many local people riding around on them, decided to rent scooters and drive them around to explore the region more outside of Cefalu. We walked into town and found a store renting them out, and started to drive eastward down the coast. Eventually,…

Posted by Alexander Geyelin on May 13, 2017 in 2017 Blog post

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