June 16, 2014 - After nearly five months of relative calm, Mount Etna is back to erupt!!. We finally published some pictures of the former,  spectacular eruptions that took place between the end of 2013 and the begin of 2014 (courtesy of some friends who took part in our guided tours)

Here are someof the photos taken in February 2014 by Giuseppe Famoso (http://www.flickr.com/photos/geko103/sets/)

We thank for these photos Vito Sergio Finocchiaro.They were taken at the end of 2013

We eagerly await the awakening of the giant, hoping that confines itself to be spectacular as it did this winter!

The Lavic Ravins, close to the "Saraceno" bridge, should be inside the Nature Reserve Regional Plan, but it has always be just a plan. As we showed on the path, it is possible to walk just along a few hundred meters of the river banks, all the rest is fenced and inaccessible.

Here the water is precious, used to grow vegetables, fruits and so on. This is one of the few areas in Sicily with good agricultural production, probably the real challenge should be the preservation of both economic and environmental aspects, but so far it seems that the environment is not considered at all.

Even worse is the situation at the canyon "La Cantera": this is the most interesting area of the Simeto river and it is not even included in the plan for future nature reserve regional institution, you must walk on private areas in order to reach the canyon.

In the end, Simeto river can sleep soundly: it is more protected than a natural reserve, we could say it is... reserved :-(