Is there an ideal cruise?
If the answer is yes this is the one you can do with us in the Aeolian Islands , where every day is a discovery and where we spent unforgettable moments.

We never wanted to have a fixed itinerary, wandering through the seven islands driven by the wind and based on the best rides. And a recommendation is good, in just one week it is not easy to visit them all, unless you want to surf only without stopping to drink the "essence" of the islands. Leaving out some of them will be the excuse to go back there, because the Aeolian Islands will remain inside with their sea, their landscapes, their perfumes and their food.

Boarding Saturday 2 May at 10.30. You can embark from Palermo or from Capo d'Orlando . Both starting from Palermo and from Capo d'Orlando, we immediately aim at Filicudi . If we are lucky the dolphins will keep us company! Filicudi is sparsely populated, fishermen and VIPs in search of peace. The village is small, the roads climb and the sea is transparent. A cane bath at sunset and then at anchor in Pecorini, the village where you think you have arrived in Puerto Escondido, transformed into a great gastronomic buffet with Sicilian specialties.

Leaving early is not a duty at Filicudi, Salina (the island of Postino) is there a few miles, you get there for the bathroom, maybe in Pollara, where Pablo Neruda lived.
Going up you can visit the poet's house. The docking at Santa Marina is convenient, because here - if you wish - there is the best port of the Aeolian Islands.

Then go down to the ground and you don't want to go away anymore, Salina is a fresco, completely refurbished, buying fish at the port an emotion, granita from Alfredo a magic ritual. The island imposes a complete circumnavigation or a visit by renting a scooter or a quod, think: five small villages perched in the mountains, from where the archipelago is dominated.

From Salina to Lipari it is also possible to swim and the first obligatory stop when arriving on the largest island of the Aeolian Islands are the pumice quarries. They have been closed for years, but the sea has remained white, a spectacle perhaps only possible in the Maldives.

Diving gives a unique feeling, the best way to get closer to the country. Mooring in Pignataro is easy, still giving under the suggestive castle and often we preferred it because more
near the center. Then a jump inside the nightlife of Lipari, among shops, restaurants (the Filipino is famous but the choice is vast) and a lush flora. You can go late to Lipari, because the music on the course continues until almost dawn. And you have to choose. Better not to overdo it, so as not to get lost the day after a swim in the faraglioni, which face Vulcano.

A stop in Vulcano should be made, if only to experience the thrill of diving in the mud, the smell is not the best but then the skin looks like velvet. You can't skip a Formaggio or Gelsi cala bath with its black sands. Wanting to attend the Sciara, that is the Stromboli fire flow it is necessary to start early from Vulcano.

On the road, a swim in Panarea (which deserves a serious reflection on the night life for those who love to mix with VIPs) in Cala Junco or the islet of Lisca Bianca and then north to get to Stromboli at sunset. And in Stromboli, on the last night of our tour, we don't sleep. A bath in Strombolicchio where the water looks like ink and you go to the north side, waiting for the flow of red lava that leaves us with bated breath sliding towards the sea from the crater.
And it's getting late, returning to the port (so to speak) makes no sense and then all that remains is to head south for a return that will pass gently, amid memories lived in those few days and the hope of being able to return next year , because it will be clear to all that we have seen only a small part of the Aeolian Islands.