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Volcanoes, caper vineyards and silent coves — a week in the seven islands that sit, half-forgotten, between Sicily and the open Tyrrhenian. There is a particular kind of anchorage one can take, in the late afternoon, in the small bay below the village of Pollara on the western flank of Salina, that is among the more memorable anchorages in the central Mediterranean. The cliff rises seven hundred metres above the sea on one side. The volcano of Filicudi smokes faintly to the w

A private passage from Taormina to the Aeolian Islands, planned for the weeks when Sicily is at its most generous. There is a moment, somewhere between the third and fourth week of April, when the light on Sicily changes. The winter haze that softens the island for much of the cold months lifts, and the light that follows is the light the Greeks came for. It strikes the columns of the Valley of the Temples at Agrigento at four in the afternoon and turns them the colour of hon