Bed and Breakfast Domus Pisani Palermo
Corso Pietro Pisani no 286 Palermo, Sicily, 90129, 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....
... caught the 8pm ferry across to Naples because it worked out cheaper and quicker than driving back through Sicily and up the boot of Italy. We were supposed to arrive at 8am, only to be awoken from our cabin at 06h00 because we'd made good time during the night. It was then onto Barrea in the mountains!
Ciao, Gaz
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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
... that would rival any Balinese street. I kept waiting for the Godfather music to start up as we walked around the streets, unfortunately the closest we got to Godfather like activity was seeing a guy go into a bar we were sitting at and collect money. Probably something very innocent, but not when you’re in Sicily.
Palermo was an easy and relaxing place to visit, the English was really good, the people were ...


