08 Sep - 18 Sep 2002 Cefalu

Mediterranean Sea
Tyrrhenian Sea
Italian Republic
Sicily
Cefalu
Porto Nuovo
SY "Kamu II" with her stern to the jetty and with one permanent bow mooring.
€ 12.- per night.

Click below for a bird's-eye view of our harbour berth:
N 38° 02.28' E 014° 01.99'

Mediterranean Sea
Tyrrhenian Sea
Italian Republic
Sicily
Cefalu
Porto Nuovo
SY "Kamu II" anchoring off.

Click below for a bird's-eye view of our anchorage:
N 38° 02.25' E 014° 02.25'

Click here for a summary of this year's travels:
2002 Map

Logging the sailed distance of of 50 nm between Filicudi Island and Cefalu on the north coast of Sicily in about 12 hours during a rainy and stormy night with low visibility.

Exploring the captivating seaside town of Cefalu - one of the most scenic places in Sicily - with her 12th-century CE Sicilian Romanesque Cathedral (with a fine mosaic figure of the Pantocrator in its apse), climbing up to La Rocca, rambling through the remains of a Saracenic castle there and enjoying the unique view down onto the harbour and onto our ship at anchor.

Hiking in the Parco Regionale Naturale delle Madonie and visiting the old mountain villages of Isnello, Pollina and Castelbuono in the Madonie Mountains (apart from Mount Etna, the highest land in Sicily) whose inhabitants have their own delicious cuisine (e.g. a special durum wheat bread, the sweet provolla-delle-madonie cheese and sfoglio, a short pastry filled with tuma [alpine pasture cheese], zuccata, egg-white, cocoa, sugar and lemon peel, cooked in the oven and served chilled).

Watching a noisy and burlesque performance of the traditional Sicilian marionette theatre (“Opera die Pupei”) of the Cuticchio family whose roots go back to the Provencal troubadour tradition in Sicily during the reign of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, during the first half of the 13th-century CE.

Buying a full-day all-inclusive package tour (for € 19.- per person) and joining a bus excursion from Cefalu to the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Agrigento (renowned as the site of the ancient Greek city of Akragras, her most famous citizen: pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles) on the S coast of Sicily thus cutting across Sicily by bus from the N to the S and visiting the famous Greek temples in the Valle dei Templi (most impressive: the remarkably intact Temple of Concordia, the large Temple of Olympian Zeus and the remains of one atlas [a support sculpted in the form of a man which may take the place of a column] in the Olympeion field) under the scorching Sicilian sun.

Indulging in sweet Sicilian specialities: crema mandorla, latte di mandorla and Konni’s famous DIY granite di mandorla and tasting the rural elixirs of cactus liquor and ash-tree manna from the Madonie Mountains.