Alla Kala Palermo
Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 71 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....
We arrived in Palermo around 6pm and it was almost dark. We quickly realised that the city is worse than Hillbrow in Johannesburg in certain areas (thanks to a road closure due to a street carnival and the GPS) and a really smart Mediterranean sea-side city only a few blocks away.
The mix of cultures due to the city's historic occupation ...
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!
... and calm evening…Time to start a fire.
We collect some kindling from outside. We pull out a couple of logs of firewood from a small stack that was in the basement. With very little effort, the fire starts quickly…the smoke billows into the night air. We are naturals at this!
The fire place is even more amazing than I had imagined. The heat it gives off is perfect, filling the room with the warmth and scent giving the house a romantic ...
Palermo
... but the artichokes were surprisingly salty and delicious.
Palermo is one of the places that I don’t think all people would enjoy, there are large, ugly, concrete buildings, dodgy looking people on every corner and generally looks quite run down. But it is authentic, beautiful and bursting in character like nowhere we have been before. We loved it, especially outside Palermo.
Love you and miss you all ...
This bed and breakfast was formerly known as: Allakala Bandb



