Returning from a week in Eolie Islands, I talk about my beautiful experience.
Lipari is the biggest of the Eolies, the most commercial and touristic one and, therefore, also the most economic: in fact it is here that I and my girlfriend have lodged. The principal towns of the island are Lipari, Pianoconte, Quattropani, Acquacalda, Canneto.
Among the most beautiful beaches, I quote Centoscalini or “White beach” (in the photo above), the beach of pumice stone and another that is attainable in two ways: paying the boat service from the Lipari port or walking along a very steep path that departs from the hill. Obviously, we have chosen “the difficult street” ;-).
To turn the island in moped (or in bicycle) in the late afternoon is relaxing and it makes you always discover new promontories, new roads, new houses and new feelings.
We have been on other two islands: Stromboli and Panarea. Together with Lipari, it is the third time that I visit them; next time, however, I will go in the other four: Vulcano, Salina, Alicudi and Filicudi.
Panarea is very small, is all built in steep slope and it is painted with four colors: the green of the mediterranean plants, the blue of the sky, the bright blue of the sea and the white of the houses and the yachts. The landscape is more savage than in Lipari, the beaches are beautiful, particularly the famous Cala Zimmari.
Stromboli is not an island: Stromboli is the Mediterranean sea, is the Sicily, is the power of the Earth, is the timid presence of man, is the Fire and is Aeolus in person. It is the most beautiful, the wildest of the Eolie Islands. Stromboli doesn’t have confinements, the sea is an its prolongation. The only rampart, the Strombolicchio rock. The volcano is in continuous activity, it spits ash and red hot stones that, punctually, roll along the Sciara del Fuoco.
But Stromboli is also Ginostra a group of houses placed in the opposite part of the island. You can arrive to Ginostra only by boat, a small boat, because his port is one of the smallest in the world; its few inhabitants are taciturn, they love silence and they hate the electric energy, that they have never had for many years.
There are no words to describe the atmosphere that you can breathes in Eolie Islands, you have to go here to touch with your hand the four natural elements.
Eolie mon amour: earth, water, air and fire
Returning from a week in Eolie Islands, I talk about my beautiful experience.
Lipari is the biggest of the Eolies, the most commercial and touristic one and, therefore, also the most economic: in fact it is here that I and my girlfriend have lodged. The principal towns of the island are Lipari, Pianoconte, Quattropani, Acquacalda, Canneto.
Among the most beautiful beaches, I quote Centoscalini or “White beach” (in the photo above), the beach of pumice stone and another that is attainable in two ways: paying the boat service from the Lipari port or walking along a very steep path that departs from the hill. Obviously, we have chosen “the difficult street” ;-).
To turn the island in moped (or in bicycle) in the late afternoon is relaxing and it makes you always discover new promontories, new roads, new houses and new feelings.
We have been on other two islands: Stromboli and Panarea. Together with Lipari, it is the third time that I visit them; next time, however, I will go in the other four: Vulcano, Salina, Alicudi and Filicudi.
Panarea is very small, is all built in steep slope and it is painted with four colors: the green of the mediterranean plants, the blue of the sky, the bright blue of the sea and the white of the houses and the yachts. The landscape is more savage than in Lipari, the beaches are beautiful, particularly the famous Cala Zimmari.
Stromboli is not an island: Stromboli is the Mediterranean sea, is the Sicily, is the power of the Earth, is the timid presence of man, is the Fire and is Aeolus in person. It is the most beautiful, the wildest of the Eolie Islands. Stromboli doesn’t have confinements, the sea is an its prolongation. The only rampart, the Strombolicchio rock. The volcano is in continuous activity, it spits ash and red hot stones that, punctually, roll along the Sciara del Fuoco.
But Stromboli is also Ginostra a group of houses placed in the opposite part of the island. You can arrive to Ginostra only by boat, a small boat, because his port is one of the smallest in the world; its few inhabitants are taciturn, they love silence and they hate the electric energy, that they have never had for many years.
There are no words to describe the atmosphere that you can breathes in Eolie Islands, you have to go here to touch with your hand the four natural elements.