Today I'd like to take you to Sicily, to a bar that you may well recognize. Along the way we'll visit Sicilian villages and take the time to enjoy seasides and sunsets.

Then we'll go and try the food at a restaurant run by one of the rising stars of Italian cuisine. I hope you like seafood?

Last stop is a visit to a museum in a city with some of the best in Italy - I promise you that there is something for everyone.

The Sicily of Dreams

Thankfully we have a friend, a professional photographer from Australia, who captures the very soul of Sicily in his photos. I particularly love his photos of the Bar Vitelli, the one that featured in the Godfather movies.

Why not click and have a look at them for yourself

City of Museums

Many of these museums are up with the greatest in the world and the choice is huge: you've the largest Museum of Egyptology outside of Cairo, art galleries with hugely important collections, a royal palace to rival that of Versailles... and then you've the fruit museum :-)

For more on this city and on all these museums click here.

A Taste of the Future

Well, eating at restaurants like Al Mandrachio gives me renewed confidence that the future is in great hands.

Here, young Mariano, a rising star in the Italian culinary world, is serving old dishes in a way that even Maria's mamma would enjoy. No big changes or "reinventions" - simply using what is good, with maybe a small touch of his own here and there.

Nothing too radical and nothing that would need nonna to get out her dreaded wooden spoon. Visit our article for more.