Sailing in Sicily
Each spring, the fishermen of the little Italian island of Favignana go to sea to hunt giant tuna, which they harpoon and hoist on board their boats in a bloody ritual called the mattanza.
A traveler with a strong stomach can arrange to go out in fishing boats in May and June, the prime season on this island off the coast of Sicily. Other times, travelers with a sense of adventure can count on men such as Giuseppe Messina, 72, on whose boat, the Maria, I recently spent an hour and a half puttering around the island, sans life jackets, as we darted in and out of grottoes chiseled into rocky cliffs.
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