B&B Agramante Palermo
Via Terrasanta Palermo, Sicily, 90141, Italy
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Island Sun
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!
... the room with a terrible chemical smell – instant headache. “Seriously!!!” I say to Wade “We have to get this F***ing thing going – I am freezing my ass off!!!”
Both Wade and I are kneeling on the concrete floor blowing into the fire in an attempt to spark a flame. Soot covers the knees of our jeans, our hoodies (which we wear for warmth all day and all night) and our faces. The concrete hurts our knees, patience is ...
Palermo
... although the one thing we struggled with was the road laws, or lack of. A pedestrian crossing in Palermo doesn’t mean you can just walk when the little green man says so, it means cross at your own risk with cars dismissing anything that looked like a red light.
Our hostel on the other hand was one of the worst places we have stayed during our 9 months of travelling. Firstly, it was freezing! After two days of ...


