sicily

Somebody joked that in Sicily people drink water bottled in the Alps, and in the Alps they drink water bottled in Sicily.

Telescopes were brought into Europe by Arabs living in what was then Iberia, Sicily and a few other places.

Normans (direct descendants of the Vikings) conquered Sicily from the Muslims back in the 11th century.

Or to Italy for the occupation and exploitation of Sicily (or the other colonies when Greece was an imperialistic colonial power house).

That said, the food, the sea and the sight-scenes in Sicily are unbelievably beautiful.

In a small town of Sicily (near where I live) some guys are making incredible stuff with retro - computing.

I consulted for a solar company in Sicily and the biggest problem was panels being stolen - paying for protection didn't help much.

I happen to have a mother from Sicily and an entire family there.

For example, people in Sicily have darker skin.

So given that, as David Welton said in this thread, in Sicily is not super expansive, I tried to balance things, getting SF-style compensations while living here.

Fans of the old Microprose flight sims would recognize this as a set of instructions that tell the jet something like -- 1) Takeoff from Sicily 2) Destroy missile boat 3) Destroy SAM Radar at Benghazi...etc.

Especially the night view of the "stretto di Messina" (the string of sea that separates Sicily) in the summer.

I worked for a couple of months for their "SecLab", then left the company to return in Sicily since I did not wanted to live in Milan.

"travel from San Francisco to Sicily is kinda NP complete: there are no solutions involving less than three flights" Pretty sure you can do it in 2 hops by flying EasyJet from Sicily to London for example.

Finally, in certain parts of Sicily it is possible to purchase "raw" milk, not pasteurized at all, in automatic machines on the street (in the province of Ragusa, for example).

If you plan to go in Sicily, feel free to ask me what to visit and the best places to eat.

Many nordict people worked in Rome army, latter they even occupied Sicily.

At one point in my life here in Italy, I had a blonde housemate from Sicily.