Lipari

 

Sketched at Lipari harbour. The ship is one of the ships that provision the island with all kind of goods and transports the garbage away. 

 

Many times during the day you could see the different ferries coming and going and it never gets boring here and it is a paradise for sketchers who like to sketch different types of ships.

 

We made a lot of walks and came by a caper factory which made me sketch the stadiums of capers. First the fruit = caper, then the flower and later the cucunci which is eatable as well.

 Then the lemon is very important in Sicily. We are on a Sicilian Island!

 

Plus I can see a few pomegranate plants here which I really think have spectacular fruits.

 

There is a long promenade with a beach in front close to the main harbour and I sketched one of the lovely painted boats. Here comes my whole spread:

 Then there is also a castle hill with churches, castle and very ancient graves...

 The upper sketch is on one of the hightest points of the castle.

 

And here comes the way up. The beautiful building in the back is a church.

More of the story in a different post...stay tuned...

 

Sketching on Lipari Island - Sicily

 

After a very fast boat ride with the traghetto from Reggio di Calabria we arrived at the Sicilian Island of Lipari. There was a harbour for large boats and after wandering the city of Lipari we found another harbour on the other side of the city.

We had a lovely appartment in the city centre directly by the harbour and from our balcony I had a view.

The Island could be explored either by foot or by Minibus.
 

There are a few spiaggias to be reached by this bus, that rides many times a day.

 

The Stromboli volcano can be seen from here and a lot of boats are sailing.

Then we went further to visit a beach with a closed factory which looks like if the working people just had gone into small pause...could have stayed there forever.

Great atmosphere in this place and a wonderful beach, there is even a little kiosk in this remote place, which was not open that day. 

Maybe one of my preferred sketching places on the island. Just awesome relaxing...
 

End of part one...to be continued