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Palermo Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Palermo, Italy
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 ...
Palermo... do yourself a favour and visit
... id=613699523&l=d52f5cf9ba Got to Palermo real early in the morning so left bags at Ai Quattro Canti hostel and wandered around Palermo. Saw some cool local markets with more varieties of olives than I'd ever seen and home jarred anchovies. Went to Bar ...
Mangia
Mangia. :) I wish I could explain to you all how many times I have heard "mangia." I am in Palermo, Sicily visiting family. I would go on to explain how I am related to them, but it gets a little complicated...just know that I'm in Italy where everyone is ...
Cappell Patatina, Monreale, Cathedral
... busy street. On our own for dinner we headed down to Café Royal where we'd had a nice dinner another night in Palermo. It was another wonderfully relaxed meal of spaghetti carbonera (I'm really liking this!) Then a taxi back to our hotel. ...
Mafia Country?
... have dirty smelly alley ways and grand old palaces, with there scars still evident from the bombings in WWII. Palermo is also home to the largest Opera house in Italy and third largest in Europe. The city has a raw energy that captures you the minute you ...
Palermo
Today i arrived in Sicily. Again, I arrived with no lodging arranged. fortunately I got a flier from a guy outside the train station for a hostel that was 20 (Euro) a night. I got here and its a univeristy dorm hall that they open up during the summer ...
Reaching Sicily
After being returned from Egypt I immediately booked my train ticket to Palermo. Since everyone in Italy is going on holiday this time it was really hard to get a trein ticket and I had to go 19,5 hours by train to arrive in Sicily. But finally I arrived ...
Rainy day in Palermo
... we took a walk on the beach, has a mini pizzette and gellato, so good.. Then back on the bus to shower and head to the Palermo Soccer game.. When we returned to The Micciche casa, we were greeted with a pasta and salad lunch.. Then we were off to the ...
Palermo
... where I had to wait in line for half an hour and run back to the ship. We made it with a few minutes to spare. Palermo (Kim) We caught the night train from Rome around 8PM. Our ride would take us 12 hours. This was more than plenty of ...
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 ...
Caotic Palermo
Que ciudad mas enquilombada! Aca estan todos, mafia, los que manejan mal, los mugrientos, los que no quieren trabajar etc. Nada que ver con el resto de ...
Palermo
... the people were very helpful, although the one thing we struggled with was the road laws, or lack of. A pedestrian crossing in Palermo doesn’t mean you can just walk when the little green man says so, it means cross at your own risk with cars ...
Cefalu--13 and 14 jan walking up in town ...
... '. We'd suddenly have plenty of oil reserves and there would be some mighty quick development of economical gas engines. But I digress. Palermo, as we have read, is quite an old city with roots going back 3,000 years. All of the Mediterranean cultures ...
Island Sun
... The bronze door has 42 Biblical scenes. We shared caprese and stuffed meat balls (tasted like pork sausage) a Monreale specialty. Palermo food markets definitely have an Arabian feel. Breakfast was fresh squeezed blood red orange juice and fried rice ...
SICILY
... we visited nearby coastal town Cefalu with Fina, Enzo, Jean Carla, and Augostino, and on the last day of our trip, we went to Palermo to stay with my cousin Arcangelita prior to our return flight home. We ate so incredibly well on this trip. On my mom's ...
A day in Palermo
Got up and went for a walk around Palermo (4.53 miles). A bit different from home... We only saw 1 or two larger grocery stores. There are many small fruit and vegtable shops and butchers. Here people will shop at several specialty ...
Checking out some free sights with the locals!!
... today). We couldn't believe the street vendors out so early, selling things from fresh seafood, pastries, fruit, and of course the Palermo Soccer items. We were only about 2 blocks from the house when we notice the sky getting dark and then the lightening ...
Returning from Favignana
In the morning we visited the grottoes of Favignana by boat - but the weather became really bad by the time. After that we walked around the village until we took the boat back to Trapani and from there back to Palermo by ...
Back to Palermo
After enjoying the sea near the lighthouse for the last days, where we also met the brasilian band, we finally got a bit tanned - and after the last bath in the morning we returned in the late afternoon to ...
Catania to Palermo
... somehow managed to get glass stuck in my foot. As a walking hazard, decided I would be safer to see the sights on Palermo from the sightseeing bus.... only for this to breakdown. Saturday I took a slow train to visit Cefalu for the day (only for ...
Family politics
... this happend the day before. Because the next day i went with alessandro angela gioacchino and ricardo to a wedding. It was in palermo in an amazing church. The church had the most funky over-the-top art inside. Afterwards we went to a restaurant that ...
Viva Santa Rosalia
... bright and early 830. Our new friends were gonna take us to a different beach for the day that was about 40 mins from Palermo...and would have been difficult if not impossible to get to by bus. We all hung out at the beach all day...the water ...
the catacombs
... amongs all photogs lol :). Thus, I get to see more and I truly enjoy it, even tho it`s tiring sometimes.The other time in Palermo I met up with Sicilian guys from the couch surfing. They gave me a tour around the town, which was very enjoyable. This time ...
Buon Giorno Palermo!
This morning we said goodbye to Rinella and Salina with a tear in our eyes and boarded the 8:20 hydrofoil to Palermo. The 3 1/2 hour hydrofoil ride to Palermo was rocky and offered some up-close views of some of the islands that had been dotting our ...
getting to know the Sicilian (CouchSurfing) mafia
... stanie odplacic za czyjas przysluge, przyjmujac innych couchsurfing`owcow u siebie, w twoim miejscu zamieszkania. P.S. Wiecej zdjec z Palermo zamieszcze wkrotce. ENGLISH: I love CouchSurfing.com Wherever in the world you are and you need ...
Palermo: Not an oasis in the sun
... the delightful tune we created and sung to each other to dull the pain of Sicily's cold, windy, heartless interior, the beach-fronting city of Palermo is NOT an oasis in the sun. Not for the 2 days we've spent here anyway. We did manage to sneak into an ...
PALERMO-3 VIDEOS
It is the 18th of September, schools have already started, but I have the tickets I bought 5 months ago for Palermo. (Luckily, I have given the lessons, so I leave my students behind telling them to enjoy a long weekend...and we fly from Athens to Milan. ...