What to Visit in Lipari, Lipari, Italy (B)

Well, my love affair with Lipari, one of the most beautiful Aeolian Islands, started a bit like a huge dislike…

You know those first nightmarish dates? When fate seems to row against you, tensions arise, but somehow there’s such an attraction that you fall in love in matter of seconds and with each passing day initial mishaps only make you smile? It was just like that.

I was supposed to stay three days mid October to attend a tourist buyers-sellers workshop and I already felt the time was too short and the journey too uncomfortable, but the adverse weather, the lack of an essential plan B in this area in this time of the year and organizational chaos on site shortened the stay to minimum terms, made the trip exasperating and nullified the workshop.

A truly surreal nightmare! Despite everything I wrote in this introduction Lipari conquered me and once on the hydrofoil bringing me back after only one day I felt like I was leaving a place I had knew for ever … oh, I do love overwhelming passions! ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).