Bed & Breakfast Martina Catania
Etnea, 452 Catania, Sicily, 95025, Italy
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Tyrreno Sea Coast
... reverse so when the front bumper was resting against a house I jumped out and looked at the back-up lights, when they were on, driver had car in reverse. We used this method several times on our journey as the car found itself down many narrow alleys. Dinner was spaghetti and muscles for one and veal in wine, cream, caper sauce. Compared Sicilian beer to Italian beer, both preferred Sicilian Messina ...
La Dolce Vita
A lovely morning in Messina and we are hoping to disembark early enough to catch the train to Taormina. Unfortunately the Italian officials took their time so it was 9.20am when we got off and not quite enough time left to catch the train.
There were taxi drivers offering to go there for €120 for 4 people and stay and hour. We got together with another couple and negotiated down to €100 for a 2.5 hour stay, only 1 driver would take this so off we ...
Sicilian Christmas
We had a most enjoyable Christmas in Sicily. Not having the kids with us and not being able to return to Rhode Island for Christmas, we went to a small town about 45 minutes outside of Catania where we spend the holiday with a very dear friend of Bill whom he works with. The interesting thing about this friend is that she was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She attended ...
Jewel of An Island
... As is often the case, the actual place where we were staying was in another building. So, after registering, we jumped back into the crowd and swam around them (like salmon up a stream) to our spacious room. We made haste to hit the streets of Rome. We threw open the windows and allowed the cool air to rush into the room (it’s warmer than in Perugia). Along with it, wafted the noise of laughter, the strings of a distant mandolin, the ...
The Sicilian Fly-By and Swiss Fighter Intercept
... by a Swiss Fighter". Sure enough, out of the sun comes a fighter jet and slowly pulls forward and closer to us. The kids waived, the pilot waived back and then banked hard left and dove for the clouds. We have video....but still have to get the video off the tape & onto the computers....our "camcorder" has not been updated even as we have continued to update our ...

