It doesn’t come as too much of a surprise to discover that Sicily has always been coveted by those who know a good thing when they see it. That fact that it’s the largest island in the Mediterranean certainly made it noticed; more significantly, perhaps, was its central Mediterranean position, which strategically made it a point of convergence between the
A gaggle of teenage schoolboys are giggling, their hands reaching up to the statue of Juliet so as to stroke her right breast – a breast that, by this stage, has been rubbed so many times it glints in the sunshine. The teenage schoolgirls are laughing, too. It’s for luck, they are told by their patient teachers, but it seems
Tony Clayton-Lea is an Irish-based freelance journalist/writer/editor who writes on music, arts, and pop culture (and travel/hospitality) for a variety of print and online outlets.
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