
20 September 2007
The mobile fishmonger on an Aeolian Island
(Vulcano off Sicily, Italy)
Vulcano
Area: 21 square kilometres. For the Romans, the island of Vulcano was the habitation of the fire god Vulcan. The centre of the island (notably a volcano, was spouting sulphur smoke all day). There were signs everywhere, on the evacuation route should there be any major eruption. Such a quiet, lazy island, with the blackest of beaches, the whitest of seafoam, and the bluest of skies.