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| | Happy New Year, happy holiday planning! | Planning a family holiday requires a great deal of thought and imagination, and to satisfy young and old in equal measure is a delicate challenge for the New Year! Fortunately we are here to help! Many thinkSicily villas offer the ideal ingredients for a family holiday: pools, gardens and proximity to wonderful beaches, towns and sites of historical/cultural interest. To ensure you secure your perfect villa, take a look at our recommended family villas in Sicily >> or call us now in London on +44 (0)20 7377 8518 to speak to someone who's been there.
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| | Skiing on Mount Etna |  You may have skied in the alps, the Rockies or the Austrian Tyrol, but you have probably never whooshed down the snowy slopes of Europe's highest active volcano... with a view of the sea! Mount Etna offers this unique skiing experience and, thanks to its height (3,323m), often has excellent snow well into April or even May. Our villas on and near Etna are perfect for your apres ski hours... Read more about skiing on Mount Etna >>
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| Easter in Sicily |
 Easter 2009 is perfectly positioned in mid-April, ideal for a Spring visit to Sicily to wipe away the winter blues! So come and enjoy "Pasqua" Sicilian style, and join in with one of the ubiquitous traditional processions, tuck in to delicious "Primavera" specialities or just soak up the warm Spring sun on the terrace or swim in the heated pool of your thinkSicily villa. More about Easter in Sicily >>
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| Acqua e sale - Sicily's west coast salt pans |  Hot African winds, long, sun-drenched summer days and shallow coastal waters..... the perfect recipe for salt-making, thought the Phoenicians some 2,700 years ago. Today, the very same conditions are still being put to good use in the salt pans between Trapani and Marsala.... Read more >> Villas in the west of Sicily >>
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| | Sicilian recipe of the month - Polpette di Broccoli |
 In our definitive Sicilian recipe page you will find polpette di carne (meatballs), tuna polpette and sardine polpette! Now it's the turn of cauliflower! Sicilians cook their broccoli (as cauliflower is called here) in many ways but this month's recipe is an excellent starter, guaranteed to get the taste buds racing! Go to our definitive Sicilian recipe page >>
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| Turkish bath, private gym, heated pool, Jacuzzi... | 
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| ...it must be Baia dei Turchi - the spa villa! | Baia dei Turchi translates literally as "Bay of the Turks", so it is maybe only fitting that this fantastic villa is busy preparing for the 2009 season by installing a Turkish bath! With a steam room, chromotherapy fittings, a hydro-massage shower and an internal water feature, all in Moroccan tadelak, it is a stunning addition to one of our finest villas. It doesn't end here, however! Just around the corner, through a relaxing tea area, is the new fitness centre with treadmill, mirrored walls and a multi-gym. All this, added to the heated swimming pool and Jacuzzi, must make Baia dei Turchi the perfect villa for those who wish to wind down and keep in trim while on holiday! Other thinkExquisite villas in Sicily >>
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