Stephen Scofes returned to Lansing after his recent spree to Capri saying, “On the beautiful Isle of Capri I felt like I’d died and gone to heaven.” Scofes, 58, traveling with his wife Mary Jo, two daughters, and his father George, fondly during the trip recalled his mother Georgia, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2017. Scofes’ paternal grandmother was a Giovanni, was from Sicily – the next increasingly popular Italian location on his vacation bucket list.

The Sicilian villages of Savoca and Forza D’Agro outside Taormina were used as settings in the Academy Award-winning film “Godfather Part II.” Bar Vitelli, the terrace café in which Michael Corleone, through an awkward initial meeting with her father, courts Appollonia, the woman he would marry in a nearby church, still operates and welcomes visitors.