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Stromboli

As promised in the previous Blog post that gave an overview of my recent trip to Sicily, now here comes the more specific post about what was the definite highlight of that trip: seeing Stromboli erupt (below you’ll find several more photos of the natural fireworks show!). The guided hike to the 400m viewing point was actually the very first thing I booked for my Sicily trip and only then built everything else around this.

First you have to get to Stromboli, of course. I planned the trip in such a way that

24 April 2026 No Comments

Back from Sicily

Late on Wednesday I returned from my 12-day trip to Sicily. When I say Sicily, though, I should clarify that I only scratched the surface of that large Italian island, having visited only its two largest cities, Palermo and Catania, as well as three of the Aeolian Islands, but saw nothing of the rest of Sicily other than the bits of landscape I was able to spot from the trains and ferries I used. In terms of dark tourism (DT), however, I almost exhausted what there is to do and see (as far as I am aware). The focus

19 April 2026 2 Comments

Light at the End of Dark Tunnels

The idiomatic phrase ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ is probably being used a lot in these weird times– as something that is hoped for, the end of a crisis. Alas, with regard to the current pandemic, that light remains very faint at best, if it’s discernible at all. There’s still no cure, no vaccine, no clear outlook of what’s yet to come.
These thoughts inspired me to look through my photo archives searching for images of tunnels with lights at their ends, and indeed there have been some on my extensive travels. Here we go, the first one is

24 September 2020 No Comments