This is Sicily at its most youthful, a city packed with cool and gritty bars, abundant energy and an earthy spirit.

Learn to make a beautiful Italian leather purse with craftsman Saro. Hidden down a quiet side street of Acireale in Sicily, Saro will take us on a tour of his studio before we get hands on with the leather and begin to craft our own.

Feel out what you most want in life in Gabriella’s intuitive painting workshop, in which we’ll discover our deepest wishes and begin to uncover exactly what we’re here for through the medium of art. What we often can’t find the words for, we’ll express by painting and for everything in between, we’ll use Italian to communicate with each other.