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Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Just pulling into Milan now - 10 minutes early

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Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Good morning from somewhere around Bologna

View from a train window with railway infrastructure, houses and a low sun

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Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

On the ferry again (pretty windblown)

Looking towards the back of a ferry, where parts of a train are visible on the deck below

The strait of Messina with Sicily extending out on the left and mainland Italy on the right with water between

Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

My train to Milan has appeared, but we're not leaving for another 45 minutes or so

A navy train with a red stripe sitting at a platform

Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I just went for one last walk around Syracuse before I've to get the train in two hours, including saying hello to Archimedes

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

South Arabian Alabaster Anthropomorphic Stele. Some say he is the ancestor of Bernd das Brot.

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Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

On the train again - this time to Modica for my last proper day in Sicily (Tomorrow's back to Frankfurt the slow way again)

Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Now on the train to Noto for the afternoon

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Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The local art museum is in an originally 13th century palace - the Pallazzo Bellomo

A pointed arches doorway in a stone wall with a triple window above

A small courtyard with a plant and a staircase up to a first floor gallery

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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Post a horse from any game as a reply and I'll tell you my opinion about it as a professional horse game consultant and certified video game horse expert also repost this so much that I'll regret posting it, I need an excuse not to do any other work today

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Kári Tulinius @kattullus.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

News from Finland: An 11-year-old Queen of Crime who runs two whole neighborhoods in Helsinki

Screenshot of text from YLE News. Text reads:

Helsingin Sanomat has reported that an 11-year-old girl is the leader of a gang of girls in Eastern Helsinki suspected in 30 criminal cases.

The paper and other outlets reported about the gang of young females last week. Police suspect around 10 individuals in the crimes. The suspects were born between 2012 and 2015.

According to HS, the group's 11-year-old leader is widely known among kids in the eastern part of the city. The paper noted that up to 40 children may be tangentially involved. Yle has reported that boys had also been involved in some of the incidents.

Police mostly suspect the youths of assault, but they are also suspected of making illegal threats and vandalism, for example.

According to the paper, the gang had targeted adults and children whom they did not know, and also kids they did know. According to police, the group had been active at least in the Vuosaari and Pasila districts.

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Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

There's a temple of Apollo on Ortigia island that can only be viewed from outside, so I wasn't surprised to see that some of the feral cats had taken it over. The large rabbits were a bit more unusual

A partial temple that is in ruins, with grass around the stones

A pair of cats perched on some of the stone blocks of the temple

A grey and white cat perched on a stone block washing itself

A fairly large brown rabbit eating grass

Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Lunch. Beginning to think I'll have eaten my own weight in pasta before I'm done

Pasta with cheese, black pepper and prawn tartare, with a limoncello spritz and a glass of eater

Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

There are catacombs at the church of St Lucia which you can visit, as well as the original burial place of St Lucia in the sepulchre chapel (her remains were first stolen by the Byzantines and brought to Constantinople, then by the Venetians in the 4th crusade)

An octagonal two story building set down below ground level

A small octagonal church with a white marble statue and a stone grave sire with a wooden frame against the far wall

A small altar with a broken pediment at the top

The grave site of St Lucia with a statue of her in front

Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The cathedral in Siracusa is fascinating - it was originally a temple to Athena, and has in the meantime been Byzantine, a mosque and Norman before its current baroque façade. But the Greek Doric columns are still visible

Looking towards the back of a church where there are two Greek columns either side of the door. The nave is lined by arched walls and the floor is patterned marble

Looking towards the apse of a church with arched walls either side of the nave

A view through one of the arches on the side of the nave where a Greek stone column can be seen

A two storey white stone baroque church with columns and broken pediments

Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The Castello Maniace is right at the end of Ortigia island in Siracusa, and was originally built by Frederick II but later altered by the Spanish

A large room with vaulted ceilings held up by pillars ringed with metal circles

Looking towards a round squat tower at one corner of the castle

Looking through a series of stone arches

A squat castle with round towers at the four corners

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Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

At the archaeology park in Siracusa this morning

The opening of a tall narrow artificial cave from the inside

Large square columns of stone dripping from the roof, some reaching a pool below

Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I went to the Siracusan Archaeology museum to look at pots and so on. (Though they do also have a great coin collection)

Lots of pots, some of which are only partly there and have been reconstructed

A feline figurine loafing with its tail on its back

Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

At Catania Centrale again, for my train down the coast to Siracusa

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Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I had a bit of a wander around Randazzo

A baroque church in black and white with a tall bell tower with black and white stripes around the windows

Looking though an arch along a medieval street with dark cobblestones

View along a river valley with some yellow flowers on the left

A church in dark stone with white highlights

Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

On the metro, so that I can get a partial rail replacement bus to a station on the Circumetnea railway line

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More pasta, this time linguine with clams

A bowl of linguine and an Aperol spritz in a table with the sea in the background

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Some of the flowers growing on the castle

Yellow flowers made up of tiny little flowers in a ring with buds in the middle

Yellow and pink flowers - the centre is little yellow flowers with pink around the edge

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Castle! (The Norman castle in Aci Castello)

A square keep in ruins, with plants growing in it

The remains of a wall with a doorway in it. There are chairs and a table in front

I decided to take a bus tour around Catania - this is the castle at Aci Castello

A small castle on a big block of basalt jutting out into the sea. Behind is a small rocky island. The sea is blue and you can see rocks below

Breakfast on a sunny terrace with swifts swooping between the building

A table with a cheery tablecloth in the sun on a terrace with roofs in the background. The sky is very blue

Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 18/04/2026

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Today is the International Day for Monuments and Sites, and Ireland is truly blessed with a wonderful array of monuments representing millennia of stories. Do you have a favourite monument in Ireland? #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

A man (me) crouches and smiles on the path to the monastic enclosure on Skellig Michael, there's a lot of puffins, that's why I'm smiling

A stone row at Beaghmore in County Tyrone

The Proleek Dolmen, an enormous capstone supported by upright stones to form a table-like megalithic tomb

Tuatha Members on tour at Glendalough, Wicklow

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Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Catania is mostly baroque thanks to an earthquake in 1693, for example the cathedral

A white baroque building with a busy square in front of it

Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Made it to Catania, where Etna seems to be behind a cloud

Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

On the bus to the station to get the train to Catania. I'd have preferred a later train but it's 9:30 or 13:30, unless I want to go the long way and change trains in Messina

For completeness, the Admiral's Bridge (over nothing) A bit uninspiring after the other 8 Arab-Norman edifices

A stone bridge with pointed arches currently over a piece of grass. It looks pretty sturdy though

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On the train back to Palermo which is pretty full - most getting on in Cefalù to be fair

Despite second breakfast, it's time for lunch - with a view

A plate of brusiate and shrimps with pistachio sauce. There's a limoncello spritz in the background

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I went for a wander around the coast

A ruined castle on a headland, with a small rocky islet off the coast, scene from a rocky beach

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I am proud of myself: I managed to pack suncream, bring it with me, and crucially put it on

Second breakfast while I wait for the touristy part of the cathedral to open

A pistachio croissant, coffee and orange juice, along with a glass of water

Cefalù cathedral, the last of the Arab-Norman cathedrals in the UNESCO list

A large Romanesque style church with two square towers, and a palm tree outside

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Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

On a train again, this time to Cefalù!

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Stubbornness (it’s the principle of the matter!) made me walk back to the city bus stop on the way down

Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I have no idea what is going on. Trying to get a bus to Monreale, but we got put off part of the way there, and then had to walk up a pretty steep hill

Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Made it to the Valley of the Temples

Large pieces of former columns lying on their side with trees in the background

A corner of a temple made of four columns and a corner of the pediment

Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I've been forced (by myself) to have breakfast at 6:30 (which is not a time I prefer to acknowledge) and it's raining

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Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

At the Zisa, a former hunting lodge/palace built by the Normans in the 12th century

A large stone building with three storeys

A large stone building with water features in front of it

Sharon Corbet @scorbet.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The little "geology" museum here is nice (would be better if I understood a bit more Italian). They're a bit broader than geology, so there's dinosaurs and dwarf elephants and a little video on the Mediterranean desiccation and the Zanclean flood