Messina
Travel Blogs from Messina, Italy
What, you want to pay to use the toilet?
... (no waiting). We thought Taormina was along the northern coast, but instead it was south. We drive though Messina (lovely city - 90% destroyed in an earthquake in 1908, 10th strongest in history. Out onto the motorway and wind along ...
Goodness gracious … great balls of fire :-)
... a good substitute. Four ties later (and Rex also topped up his supply), we rejoined our group for the trip back to Messina. I was a bit disappointed that we didn’t go down the hill via the cable car, but it was pretty exciting watching the bus ...
Messina, Italy - Cruise 2
Messina, Italy - This port has a botanical garden, lots of old churches, quaint neighborhoods and tons of trash. That is a central theme so far in Italian ports in Sicily. I hiked for about 2 hours up and down all kinds of streets and alleys ...
Day 30 ' Happy Halloween from Messina ' Sicily '
... ' can´t view them on this computer. A beautiful morning as we sailed along the coast of Southern Italy into the port of Messina - Sicily - Italy. We could see Mt. Etna in the distance and it was beautiful. We did not arrive into Messina until noon - ...
A Day At Sea - Relaxing & Formal !
Buon Giorno! Ok! For clarification, we didn't stop at Messina. We merely went through the Messina Strait, where our Italian built 100,000 ton boat "Ruby Princess" continued south and navigated around the toe of Italy. ...
More Calabria and Messina
... capital, but it was already 6:30 and would have taken 3 hours again to get there. I convinced him to get a hotel in Messina, I didn't feel like spending another hours on the train after already spending the whole day on it! Messina is quite a nice ...
Vibo Valentia naar Messina
... moet dit een zeer bruikbaar lichtbaken op zee zijn. Stromboli wordt wel de oudste vuurtoren ter wereld genoemd. Bij de straat van Messina worden de golven opeens minder en de kleur van de zee zeegroen. We hebben een flinke stroom mee. Dit komt dat de ...
Messina Sicily
... we got to spend the day in Messina, Sicily. Sicily is an island off the coast of Italy (you can actually see mainland Italy from Messina). The tour that we had booked for today was "Mt. Etna". Mt. Etna is the largest active volcano in Europe (3,329m). ...
Ciao Baby
... . Then I heard rumbling like thunder. Now I was worried. Oh, wait -- it was just my stomach. The passage from Patras, Greece to Messina, Sicily took us two and a half days. On the morning of the second day, miles from land, we had a hitchhiker. A ...
Inside Quest
I've received numerous cards and letters requesting a description and photos of good ship Quest (alright, only one from my friend since kindergarten - thanks Pam). But I've thought about giving you all a run down of our home away from home before and ...
Relaxing Day at Sea...Poolside
... design on my right chest. They now call me Red Peck. No pictures will surface of that. Tonight we passed threw the Straight of Messina. It was very nice to see Sicily again, but too bad we couldn't get off and see the family. We did finish a great ...
Messina - Sicily
... boys like to hurry us along a bit. We had an excellent lunch in a little upstairs cafe up an alley - always great food in Italy. The boys decided to catch a bus back down to the station and then walk to a beach nearby while we went back to a ...
Sicily
... was the perfect example. By the time we were docked and ashore we had only a few hours to explore the port city of Messina, and it's hard to imagine that what we saw is representative of Sicily as a whole. As with most port cities, it had ...
Somewhere in the Mediterranean
... been born. Someday I'm going to visit - my father's family still has people there and I know my mother's side came from Messina. I watched the sunset and only went in as we passed the northernmost tip of the island, long after dark. It was a ...
The Mafia
... a great idea since flexibility in such a large island with so many places to visit is important. The ferry from Villa San Giovanni to Messina is $30 Euros per car and the ride lasts about half an hour. Once in Messina we drove to Catania where we spent ...
Quickie in Messina
220111 - Messina. Sicily. Italy Aamulla oli tunkkainen kiire kun piti saada kaikki rediksi ja keretä bussiin joka kuljetti meidät Taorminan juna-asemalle. No kerittiin hädintuskin ja sitten olikin vielä kovempi kiire kun lipunoston jälkeen oli kaksi ...
4 Stars equal sh#t
1402-16022011 Messina. Sicilia. Italy. Helpottavaa! Koska Palermosta lähdettäessä tiedettiin jo etukäteen palaavamme takaisin muutaman päivän päästä saatiin sovittua majoituksen omistajan kanssa rinkkojen jättämisestä välipäiviksi. ...
Back to Boredom
23022011 Junan vaihto Messinassa. Lähdettiin aamulla yhdeksän regionalilla Cefalusta ja Messinaan saavuttua jäi puolitoista tuntia aikaa tapettavaksi ennen jatkoyhteyttä. Kaupunki tuntui olevan sama tylsähkö itsensä joten koukattiin keskusaukion ...
Walking on the Moon
... Sicily has 5 million people on 25000 square km. The straits of Messina are 3.3km wide so very close to the Italian mainland. Messina was destroyed by an earthquake and matching tsunami in 1908 when 80 000 people died. The town was rebuilt with wide roads. ...
Loungin' about
As was so often the way we arrived for breakfast at the same time as Philip and Anna. We were in the Vista and had a nice spot by a window. They had been affected byte gridlock in Athens yesterday as well and commented that the sites they could freely ...
Mafiosa
We docked in the morning in the town of Messina on the coast of Sicily. The dock was right in town so we were able to step right off the ship and wander around the town centre. One thing about Sicily is that the Sicilian Mafia are well ...
Worlds Largest Astronomical Clock
... of my clothes second hand, but there are lots of clothes stores here. Clothing looks good and prices about same as USA. Messina's claims to fame include: setting for Shakepeare's Much Ado About Nothing and it being the most heavily bombed city in Europe ...
Squid Head
Yesterday Fabrizio's friends took me around Messina. They took me to a spot to see a view of the water and apologized for Calabria being in the way. It was very beautiful. I like how no matter where you go you can always see the ocean here. Its very ...
Sicily
saturday, june 27, Messina, sicily- day 2 Rise and shine for our first excursion! Sicilian wine tasting paired with cheese, salami, and biscotti! We tasted one red, one white, and one reisling! can u guess my fav? yep..the ...
Extra
Hi agian today I didnt send you the link for yesterdays entry so now you have two. Today has been such a fabulous day, we have been , quite near to the Port, to an ancient place to see the tombs of the Etruscans, at Tarquina,facinating, and Liz I ...
Emergency Stop
5 sept An Unscheduled stop to let a sick passenger ashore for hospital treatment. Yhe Capt tells us this will make us about 7 hrs late for Athens bugger!!. sailing inmill pond like conditions weather perfect blue sky and hot sun. Had Pizza with Joe ...

