Palermo
Travel Blogs from Palermo, Italy
Palermo
... and the next day try and do the same with the added stimuli of all these beautiful churches in between fruit and fish stands. Palermo is an incredibly fascinating place with so much history to offer. You could probably smell it if it wasn't for all the ...
Drive by Palermo
... south to Tunisia (once Carthage) from here instead of heading north and onwards to a new home. I eventually arrived at Palermo and after finding accommodation a visit to the port confirmed a sneaking suspicion. The ferry was due to depart at ...
Pirates of the Mediterranean
... some ice cream. Allyson took me back downtown that evening so I could catch the ferry...I barely made it. I cruised from there to Palermo in Sicily and continued on to meet up with the sailboat. Allyson was a great host and didn't ever threaten to kick ...
Sicily
Short trip to Sicily - Cheap flights Stanstead-Palermo on Ryan Air. One day and night in Palermo, then hopped on the train just along the coast to Cefalu where we did very little except sit on the beach by day and stuff ourselves with Pizza, fresh ...
Hot and spicy in Sicily
... got stuck in a tunnel and all the lights went out! And there were some very dodgy characters on the train! Anyway, I love Palermo. Itās such a mix of cultures and architectural styles- Moorish, Norman, Spanish Baroque, itās all here. Much of it is in ...
Starting a tour of the other end of Sicily...
... mountainous scenery of the Madonie National Park among other delights before we emerged to the largely industrialised coastline around Palermo. I must say the stark chimneys and pollution came as quite a shock after the snow-capped peaks and open lush ...
Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Christians, Shepherds,
Headed north through Sicily to Palermo via Segesta and visited more mountain top ruins of one of the best preserved Temples. From there we went 2 km uphill to the theater and castle remains. Perched on that mountaintop first lived the Greeks in 600 ...
The Island of My Other Ancestors
We left Sorrento early in order to take an 8 hour train ride from Napoli to Palermo Sicily. I managed to read and entire book on the train ride down, leaving nothing for me to read while I was in Sicily. We got into Palermo late at night, and had a ...
Palermo
... got to tag along w/ a school group for a show, but the group never showed.... tahnks inclement weather!!!! Apparently Sicily and Palermo especially are known for the crafts, ceramics, puppets ---- active art, I love it! I walked past this little ...
Palermo
... it all back up and continue the trip. All that stuffing around takes a long time though! We had a few hours to kill in Palermo and wandered around fairly aimlessly. The city isn't exactly built for tourists. It is very run down, shabby, and full of ...
Sicily
1/27/07- Arriving early in the afternoon, from Rome, into Naples. Spending the remaining light of the day touring around Castle Saint Elmo. Saint Elmo's offers an enchanting view of Naples as well as of the Mediterranean and surrounding mountains. ...
Agrigento to Corleone to Palermo
... from school....kids are kids no matter where they live! Being the siesta time not much was open so we headed off to Palermo. We had a stop for petrol where apparently the owners had a real sense of humor about the oil prices! Our hotel was not ...
Palermo is cool
... Santa Rosalia supposedly are. She apparently saved the city from Plague and so now she is the (quite revered) patron saint of Palermo. So this sanctuary is literally built to the side of this cliff rock wall up on the mountain, with I kid you ...
Palermo !
... UID=debjo&tweb_tripID=sicily2006&tweb_entryID=1160056260&tweb_PID=&tweb_guest_password=&POPUP=YES&tweb_img_filename=509470-cattacombe_dei_cappuccini-palermo.jpeg Then we spent several hours pouring through the Museum. It was a great place with lots of ...
We Arrived!
... to be entertained by an airport. Finally we crammed ourselves into the bus then into the plane for the 45 minute flight to Palermo. It was very cloudy over Sicily so our first sight of land was when we came into the airport. Customs was quick and ...
The trip continues to Sicily
... drove to the top of Mount Pellegrino to overlook Palermo. It was an impressive view. Our tour group left Palermo in the morning on July 28th and made a stop at Agrigento to visit the ancient Greek temples from ...
Viva la Mafia
If you have doubts whether the mafia is still working... I don't. Palermo is a charming mediterranean city, his highlights are so great, his Cathedral is amazing, but try not to get lost in the streets... we saw a peculiar street market and we decided to ...
"you gotta no rules here"
... we looked like we were in some sort of procession because we were so many people all walking together down the sidewalks of Palermo. Twenty short, dark haired Italians walking together--then there was me. The only tall, blonde in heals, walking ...
Mafia and Mosque-churches
... , we checked in, took the best showers EVER (did I mention how disgustingly hot the train was?) and started to wander around Palermo. It is a really really interesting city. There are lots of beautiful old buildings, often built in an Arab-Norman style ...
Our Sicily Bike Tour
... oil producing farm and bought some of their stock in Piana degli Albanesi. Today, we drove here to Monreale (just outside of Palermo) and have been enjoying the best sweet ricotta cannolis ever!! A wonderful end to this piece of our journey. The ...
Gelato sandwich. Really. Gelato stuffed into a bun
... the wrong lineup. We were stunned when the lady at our seventh lineup finally sold us a stamp. Although it took almost 12 hours by train to get to Palermo from the mainland, we were glad we made the long trek and would readily come back again ...
Finally made it.
... a guy who is going to open up a brew pub come next June and wants Justin to be his brewer. He took us around Palermo, out to lunch, and introduced us to his family. He doesn't plan on breaking ground until January but told us we could stay at ...
Very mixed city....
We arrived in Palermo around 6pm and it was almost dark. We quickly realised that the city is worse than Hillbrow in Johannesburg in certain areas (thanks to a road closure due to a street carnival and the GPS) and a really smart Mediterranean sea-side ...
Sicily!
... We had delicious pastries and a few solo cafes. then we walked around a bit as he gave us some more interesting history about Palermo which all Sicilians are fiercely proud of, sacking and all. I made my farewells and went to bed. The next morning I ...
Hit the markets and had dinner
... are flattened, breaded and fried -pretty tasty). Later we headed out to see a few of the seldom seen sights of Palermo. The cultural/historical society had several sites open for free on the weekends for the month of October. We went to ...
Bubaluci e mozzarella
... im goung to someones wedding (lol!) with angela alessandro ricardo and gioacchino. Then im sleeping here then friday we r going into palermo with ricardo and gioacchino (on motor bike?) then on the weekend we are going beach with marianna and ricardo and ...
Palermo, way to many churches for Mike's taste ...
... EEC is showering money on the island cultural treasures, they are catching up on everything at once. Practically 1/3 of historic Palermo is under tarp, another third is crumbling away, ferns and trees growing from Palaces balconies and Palermitans are ...

