Sunday afternoon

It's sunday afternoon, all homeworks done, outside it's raining, siblings are playing something childish and mum is sewing: what can a 9 yo ask for? Hot chocolate, of course!

So here you are: the REAL hot chocolate, made by D





HOT CHOCOLATE (serves 4)

2 cups of milk

200 g dark chocolate (very important: choose good quality)

50 g sugar

1 tablespoon cornstarch

half teaspoon cinnamon

Mix everything, bring to boil on low heat and whisk for about 4 minutes or until it looks enough thick.

Enjoy!

Sweet valentine's day!

"To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world. "

Gorgeous Sicily

Last week H and S went to Catania, in Sicily, to enjoy Sant'Agata celebrations. It's a very ancient tradition and it's still very popular among everyone.

Here you can see people offering beeswax candles, some of the candles are as big as a small tree!
The men with a white tunic and a black hat are not priests, but "devoti", a kind of Agatha's fan.

The "fercolo" is in silver and is on wheels; 2 ropes (each one 200 m long!) are secured to it and are pulled by hundreds "devoti".

To have an idea look at this video I found in YouTube

This year the weather was really good and so H took S to the sea.





These 2 pictures were taken at San Giovanni li Cuti. The rocks are black because they are made of lava from mount Etna, an active volcano close to Catania that is the largest active volcano in Europe.



No need to say that here in Piedmont the weather was slightly different...