Bed & Breakfast San Placido Inn Catania
Piazza San Placido 3 Catania, Sicily, 95131, Italy
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Tyrreno Sea Coast
... now sit atop a cliff overlooking the Ionian Sea. At one point along the way the usual blue Messina sign was covered with a black trash bag. The driver thought it was just a joke so kept driving on a few kilometers to a closed road. There was no detour or road closed ahead sign, just a black trash bag covering the name. Turning around seems like an easy thing to do, but said driver has ...
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
... High School that Lorraine attended. Following graduation from High School she traveled to Sicily, met her future husband, and has been living in Italy ever since. Her home is beautiful and her family that include of three sons and a wonderful husband are just outstanding. We had a lovely time as the
pictures show.
We will return soon to Sicily for a long ...
Jewel of An Island
... roads that wind up very steep grades. Our GPS thought we were about 200 feet higher than we really were so our hotel was nowhere to be found (and I’m freaking out with a standard transmission car, making a “y” turn on a very, very narrow road [with a nasty drop off] and on a very steep grade (be warned that Paul’s story will make it sound like we were on a flat, wide road or something of the kind). I must admit that I ...
The Sicilian Fly-By and Swiss Fighter Intercept
... Rice Balls."
We manifested for the Germany flight and wound up on an Air Force Lear Jet! Before we boarded Travis asked, "Dad, can I have a window seat?" My reply, 'Travis, everyone has a window seat!"
It was a six seater and we were the only four passengers. After a couple hours the pilot turned around and said, "Don't be alarmed, but we are going to ...



