Experience Sicily! We are home now, adjusted to our local time zone, with time to reflect and appreciate the wonderful time we had in Sicily! The entire Experience Sicily team is extremely customer oriented, very responsive and exceptionally knowledgeable. Allison Scola, who is an amazing individual, adds an unprecedented passion and excitement to this incredibly talented and dedicated team. The entire Experience Sicily team is wonderful! They understand the vacation industry. Trip pre-planning activities are well documented, coordinated and communicated. Once we arrived in Sicily the local team was equally organized! These two weeks we just spent in Sicily, were some of the best vacation days we’ve had! The entire ES team delivered a wonderful customer experience. On our tour we saw many wonderful things; Including UNESCO sites, archaeological parks, ancient theaters, valley of the temples, museums, churches, and cathedrals! Excursions were lead by certified professional tour guides. Their knowledge and expertise helped us understand and appreciate what we were seeing and learning. We had the privilege of meeting and traveling with world-class chefs and wine experts. We were treated to the best gelato ever! We participated in several cooking classes! We learned how to make different kinds of pasta, caponata, sausage, panelle, and of course Arancini. In Ortigia and Palermo, we walked through the open markets. Fresh fish, fresh meats, fresh vegetables, fresh fruit, fresh breads, fresh pastries, fresh everything!! Vendors chanting and competing for your attention… hard to describe, easy to enjoy! For sure, Sicily has the best cannoli in the world and fortunately for us we found a couple pasticcerias where we treated ourselves! We visited a working sheep farm where they were making fresh ricotta. We actually tasted some of the fresh ricotta curd. What a treat! We stopped at a local butcher shop and to make fresh sausage, we bought homemade salami, chess, and then headed off for lunch. Our hosts, Giuseppe and Valeria, treated us to an unbelievable Barbecue-Picnic lunch in the mountains. A trip to Trapani to visit the salt flats included a walk through the salt beds with a view into some of the ancient technology (Archimedes screw) that was used to move water from one flat to another. We took a boat excursion on the Tyrrhenian Sea where we were able to jump into the sea to enjoy the cool refreshing waters. Hiking on Mount Etna, visiting wineries… On our winery tours we experienced the entire process of how fresh grapes are turned into wine. We tasted wine drawn from the cask. We bottled, corked, and labeled our own bottles. Eating in amazing trattorias, enjoying passeggiata, learning the differences between Buongiorno, Buonasera, and Buona note! With love and appreciation, Grace & Andy DeMore