hortus quaerens

📍 Castello Maniace, Syracuse, Sicily

The most Mediterranean through a fortress window 🌊 (Sicily East Coast Ep9) #italyvibes

Through travel vlogs, I want to share my true present feelings — feelings that aren’t always cheerful, yet rarely make me regret.

Like that summer afternoon in Syracuse, Sicily. After hours on a restaurant terrace, the sun was still blazing. We had to step back into the heat, to an ancient fortress.

No trees, no people — just the Mediterranean midday sun. The contemporary human sculptures around the corners tested my frayed nerves.

But deep inside the fortress, I came across the framed deep blue ocean — and that was a moment.

This is an episode from my Sicily trip. You can find my curated map/route here:

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