Casacquerello Bed and Breakfast Palermo
Via Orfeo 9 localita Mondello Palermo, Sicily, 90100, Italy
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Island Sun
... Day in Sicily is St. Joseph's Day. Joseph was a pancake seller when the housing market crashed so pancakes are the food choice for Father's Day. Driving in Italy is quite the experience. Signage is poor. The drivers never mind the speed limit, never signal lane changes or turns, and have no patience. I had gotten driving directions from the hotel in advance to make our trip from the airport easy. The first step was take A-19 A-20. At the rental car desk we ...
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
We woke up after a brilliant nights sleep and again the sun was shining. Feeling good we all got dressed for some exercise. I ran along another brilliant coastal road, today was the hottest yet. Sweating and flustered I boldly suggested we go straight for a swim. Well I was the bravest and got in up to my thighs, the boys managed their toes and that was it - it was more like an ice bath. But stunning crystal clear water.
Oh well soon enough we ...
Where there's fire there's smoke!
... 8230;and the umbrella came crashing down the stairs and smoke rolling into the family room. So much for that!
Our mornings begin with a trip to the market with the intended purpose to buy the white gasoline accelerator thingies…collect wood…check the weather status. Actually, when I say we check the weather…we don’t. We don’t care about the temperatures (cold) we care only about the wind speed and direction. Anything over 5mph ...
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 ...

