Ai Cartari B&B Palermo
Via Alessandro Paternostro 62 Palermo, Sicily, 90133, Italy
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Traveling through the Rome airport we met up with 1996-99 Seahawk Brian, he's now in Atlanta. Yesterday we landed in sunny Palermo with the temperature 72 degrees. What a joy after the humidity and 95 degrees which covered me from head to toe with itchy "baby rash". The Cathedral of Monreale just outside Palermo is considered the pinnacle of achievement of Arab-Norman art. Founded in 1172 by William II, the interior is famous for its gold mosaics ...
Very mixed city....
... many different nations is very apparent with over a hundred and fifty churches in a 20-block radius.
We were pleasantly surprised by our B&B / hostel for the night (www.aivicere.com). Well equipped, clean and pretty much in centre of the old town.
We spent the day exploring the city's sights, sounds and markets for the day. ...
Go West life is peaceful there
... quickly locked the doors and we were all thinking uh oh where are we??? After squeezing through some extremely tight cobbled streets (Jabula's mirrors even had to be tucked in) we noticed that the streets got a bit cleaner and the characters dwindled in numbers and then the hotels started appearing - right we must have entered from the "******" side of town, it was actually quite nice now.
We found a park and our little hostel (which is ...
Where there's fire there's smoke!
UMBRIA (northern Region bordering Tuscany), Italy
Last week of June, 2011
Hot and humid summer day.
Phone call:
Me: Hi can we rent your beach house in San Vito Lo Capo, Sicily?
GW: Sure…when?
Me: October of this year until April of next.
GW: Sure…you know the house doesn't have heat. But it is Southern Italy and there is a large fireplace that will heat the place. Winters are mild ...
Palermo
... in one spot for too long. It was a Chinese torture machine that we endured for 7 wonderful nights. Absolute hostel nightmare.
Reading back it sounds as though we didn’t enjoy ourselves, but we did. We can now look back in the warmth of our luxurious hotel and laugh at ourselves and realise that these are the things that we will probably remember most. One of our favourite days was a trip to Monreale. It’s a ...
This bed and breakfast was formerly known as: Ai Cartari



