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We’re so excited to be able to share a guest post from Jules Brown this week. Jules is a travel writer and long-time Rough Guide author. With a writing career stretching back over 30 years, he has lost count of the number of features he has written for publishers, newspapers, magazines and websites, not to mention the number of guidebooks that he has written! Mark Ellingham, founder of the Rough Guides series, describes Jules’ writing as ‘funny, inspiring, quirky and always engaging<\/em>‘ and we have to agree. Here, Jules tells us all about his trip to the Sicilian island of Alicudi.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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The island of Alicudi \u2013 an extinct volcano off Sicily\u2019s north coast \u2013 rises out of the Mediterranean, forming an almost perfect cone. Fifty years ago, there was no electricity here and the young left for better, easier lives on the mainland. Today, there are still no real roads, only a couple of hundred inhabitants and a few dozen houses. Meat and provisions come in by boat. So does anything else you might fancy, including fresh water. You can climb up a donkey track to the top of Alicudi, which is a very hot and very steep thing to do. At other times, you can hang around the harbour and watch the fishermen mend their nets. And that\u2019s about it as far as entertainment goes.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

You might wonder why anyone would come? In part, I had to \u2013 I was writing the Rough Guide to Sicily and a travel writer\u2019s got to go where a travel writer\u2019s got to go. But to be honest, once I\u2019d discovered it existed and had seen it on the map, I wanted to go there anyway. There\u2019s something about islands that speaks to me, and this one \u2013 a tiny speck, stuck out in the middle of the ocean, at the very end of an already remote ferry route \u2013 was positively shouting. It\u2019s probably as far off the beaten track as you can get in the Mediterranean \u2013 if you can beat a track by boat \u2013 and that was good enough for me. <\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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The one hotel is closed, they say, as I disembark. No, there isn\u2019t a restaurant, or even a bar, they chortle, as the hydrofoil speeds off. It\u2019s nine-thirty in the morning and I\u2019ve basically just done all my research on Alicudi. So when\u2019s the next hydrofoil out of here? Nine-thirty tomorrow. Ah. OK then.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I\u2019m told that the signora in the ticket agency can help me with a room. The sign in the window gives the daily opening hours, after which is written the single word \u2013 forse (perhaps, maybe, possibly). I catch her as she\u2019s locking up. She only sells tickets for ten minutes before departure, and if the office isn\u2019t open when it should be \u2013 well, it hardly matters. You could pretty much just shout from here that the boat was leaving, and everyone in the village would hear you.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

A room? Sure, follow her.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

She makes conversation. Am I foreign? Well, yes. Which part of Italy, she says? (Italy being completely foreign, as far as most Sicilians are concerned). Now I speak terrible Italian, so either the signora is deaf or we are now officially talking Very Remote Island \u2013 as in \u2018The Wicker Man\u2019 remote. As in \u2018Deliverance\u2019. None of this is reassuring.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I\u2019m deposited in a\u00a0private room in the signora\u2019s house, and then I sit on the terrace for a bit, admiring the view. It\u2019s now eleven o\u2019clock. Time to tackle her again, this time about food. She says there\u2019s a restaurant in the hotel. Oh wait, she\u2019s just remembered, the hotel is closed. Of course it is. But have I tried asking the signora Giuseppina? She lives in the white house over there \u2013 there\u2019s a vague wave of the hand. Admittedly, there are only about sixty houses over there. It\u2019s just that they are all white.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

So, I simply knock on this woman\u2019s door and ask her to cook dinner for me, do I? Apparently I do.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Signora Giuseppina has a large knife in her hand and is doing something unpleasant to a squid. It seems safest to agree to anything that she says. I am to come back at eight this evening for spaghetti, squid, salad and wine. I have no idea what I am to pay for this. Am I supposed to pay? Is there someone I may have to marry instead? There is no way of knowing, because the conversation gets as far as \u2013 are you foreign? from which part of Italy? \u2013 and no further.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Anyway, it will be time for dinner in \u2013 ooh, let\u2019s see \u2013 seven hours. Time to entertain myself. So I climb up the central cone of Alicudi, picking my way along a stony track, watching the waves ripple on the black rocks below. There\u2019s a distant splash \u2013 dolphins? Forse. Maybe. The sun beats down on a glistening ocean, and I am overtaken regularly by donkeys, but I finally sit by a little white-stone shrine a few hundred feet up, looking down at the tiny harbour below. Or, more precisely, looking down at a passenger ferry pulling into and then out of the tiny harbour below.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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If we\u2019re being strictly fair, I suppose I did ask when the next \u2018hydrofoil\u2019 was, so I decide on reflection not to get cross with anyone. In any case my Italian is far too erratic and I may inadvertently accept a kind offer of marriage from the squid mangler. So instead I scramble back down the mountain, snooze the afternoon away, spruce myself up in a pristine white room with a serene view of the bay, and then totter around to Giuseppina\u2019s house after dark.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I\u2019m shown to a carefully laid table on a flower-filled terrace, overhanging with vines. The food is exquisite \u2013 spaghetti stirred through with fresh crab and wild oregano, sweet grilled squid with capers picked from the hillside, homemade wine, fruit from the trees. I slice a peach, drink a shot of grappa and sip bitter espresso from a stove-top coffee-maker while listening to the breeze and the night calls. Back in the room, my bed is soft, the breeze warm through the shutters, the lap of the waves gentle and soothing.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

When I wake up late the next morning and throw open the windows, there\u2019s the hydrofoil coming into the harbour, as promised. I could make it, just, if I left now. Only, it seems, I\u2019m not quite so keen to leave any more. This isn\u2019t like anywhere else in Italy \u2013 it\u2019s not even like anywhere else I\u2019ve been in Sicily. It\u2019s exactly what the speck on the map promised \u2013 isolation \u2013 the first time I clapped eyes on it.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Maybe just one more night alone on Alicudi. <\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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If you\u2019d like to read more about Jules\u2019 adventures, his travel books are available worldwide on Amazon – Don\u2019t Eat the Puffin: Tales From a Travel Writer\u2019s Life, and Never Pack an Ice-Axe: Tales From a Travel Writer\u2019s Life<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re so excited to be able to share a guest post from Jules Brown this week. Jules is a travel writer and long-time Rough Guide author. With a writing career stretching back over 30 years, he has lost count of the number of features he has written for publishers, newspapers, magazines and websites, not to mention the number of guidebooks that he has written! Mark Ellingham, founder of the Rough Guides series, describes Jules’ writing as ‘funny, inspiring, quirky and always engaging‘ and we have to agree. Here, Jules tells us all about his trip to the Sicilian island of Alicudi. The island of Alicudi \u2013 an extinct volcano off Sicily\u2019s north coast \u2013 rises out of the Mediterranean, forming an almost perfect cone. Fifty years ago, there was no electricity here and the young left for better, easier lives on the mainland. Today, there are still no real roads, only a couple of hundred inhabitants and a few dozen houses. Meat and provisions come in by boat. So does anything else you might fancy, including fresh water. You can climb up a donkey track to the top of Alicudi, which is a very hot and very steep thing to do. At other times, you can hang around the harbour and watch the fishermen mend their nets. And that\u2019s about it as far as entertainment goes. You might wonder why anyone would come? In part, I had to \u2013 I was writing the Rough Guide to Sicily and a travel writer\u2019s got to go where a travel writer\u2019s got to go. But to be honest, once I\u2019d discovered it existed and had seen it on the map, I wanted to go there anyway. There\u2019s something about islands that speaks to me, and this one \u2013 a tiny speck, stuck out in the middle of the ocean, at the very end of an already remote ferry route \u2013 was positively shouting. It\u2019s probably as far off the beaten track as you can get in the Mediterranean \u2013 if you can beat a track by boat \u2013 and that was good enough for me. * * * The one hotel is closed, they say, as I disembark. No, there isn\u2019t a restaurant, or even a bar, they chortle, as the hydrofoil speeds off. It\u2019s nine-thirty in the morning and I\u2019ve basically just done all my research on Alicudi. So when\u2019s the next hydrofoil out of here? Nine-thirty tomorrow. Ah. OK then. I\u2019m told that the signora in the ticket agency can help me with a room. The sign in the window gives the daily opening hours, after which is written the single word \u2013 forse (perhaps, maybe, possibly). I catch her as she\u2019s locking up. She only sells tickets for ten minutes before departure, and if the office isn\u2019t open when it should be \u2013 well, it hardly matters. You could pretty much just shout from here that the boat was leaving, and everyone in the village would hear you. A room? Sure, follow her. She makes conversation. Am I foreign? Well, yes. Which part of Italy, she says? (Italy being completely foreign, as far as most Sicilians are concerned). Now I speak terrible Italian, so either the signora is deaf or we are now officially talking Very Remote Island \u2013 as in \u2018The Wicker Man\u2019 remote. As in \u2018Deliverance\u2019. None of this is reassuring. I\u2019m deposited in a\u00a0private room in the signora\u2019s house, and then I sit on the terrace for a bit, admiring the view. It\u2019s now eleven o\u2019clock. Time to tackle her again, this time about food. She says there\u2019s a restaurant in the hotel. Oh wait, she\u2019s just remembered, the hotel is closed. Of course it is. But have I tried asking the signora Giuseppina? She lives in the white house over there \u2013 there\u2019s a vague wave of the hand. Admittedly, there are only about sixty houses over there. It\u2019s just that they are all white. 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The sun beats down on a glistening ocean, and I am overtaken regularly by donkeys, but I finally sit by a little white-stone shrine a few hundred feet up, looking down at the tiny harbour below. Or, more precisely, looking down at a passenger ferry pulling into and then out of the tiny harbour below. If we\u2019re being strictly fair, I suppose I did ask when the next \u2018hydrofoil\u2019 was, so I decide on reflection not to get cross with anyone. In any case my Italian is far too erratic and I may inadvertently accept a kind offer of marriage from the squid mangler. So instead I scramble back down the mountain, snooze the afternoon away, spruce myself up in a pristine white room with a serene view of the bay, and then totter around to Giuseppina\u2019s house after dark. I\u2019m shown to a carefully laid table on a flower-filled terrace, overhanging with vines. 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