Bed & Breakfast o'Oscia Palermo
garibaldi no 8 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!
... us…and we are not anywhere closer to getting this thing started….But it must be started!!! It has to start!!! We are cold!
We forge ahead.
Twenty attempts later our hard work, cursing, lighter fluid, paper towels, accelerator white stuff and persistence has paid off. The fire succumbs to our will and lights. It sputters and coughs and winces and finally comes to life!! A fire!!! Alas!!! We have Fire!!! Logs are a blazing!!! The ...
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 ...


