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MATILDA RADIO - Syracusa and the dust of Etna
This episode comes to you from Roccella Ionica, Calabria.
Links to stuff we discussed:
- SYRACUSE, ARCHIMEDES AND THE SEIGE OF SYRACUSE
- UNOFFICIAL SPONSOR // LA ICONICA - Aussie Chicken empire - we applaud your place of birth!
- BOARDWALK - Owned by US Ambassador to Italy and significant Trump supporter - Tilman Fertitta - utterly offensive
Southern Sicily
Images from Sicily- “Throughout the history of the human race, no land and no people have suffered so terribly from slavery, from foreign conquests and oppression, and none have struggled so irrepressibly for emancipation as Sicily and the Sicilians.”-―Marx and Engels
MATILDA RADIO - How do you pronounce Trapani?
This episode comes to you from west coast of Sicily, near Siracusa. Apologies in advance for the sound quality. This is what happens when you try and make a podcast, on deck, while you're sailing, with an engine going...We're chatting southern Sicily, Greek ruins, cloud inversion, Sam and Jim.
MATILDA RADIO - From Trapani
Episode Three- Crossing from Sardinia to Sicily, anchors, holding tanks and pistachio gelato.
MATILDA RADIO - From Torre Delle Stelle
This episode comes to you from TORRE DELLE STELLE - Tower of the Stars 15nm east of Cagliari on Sardinia.