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Palermo Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Palermo, Italy
First leg back to Rome
We drove back to Palermo, form Syracuse via Enna. Very hot in the middle of the island when we stopped for a wee break. We got hammered for excess lugage by windjet again this time we paid for 6kg extra. Flight to Rome was uneventful, On the train into ...
Three weddings in Palermo
... and seemed to be roped off. The outside of the building was impressive. Next the teatro massimo (theatre) but we encrouching on Palermo's lunchtime so we walked on looking for a cafe. A owner of small trattoria cornered us with his wife offerring home ...
Oodles of Religious Art
... following on the front cover: Pago Chinon Paga (Pay Who Doesn't Pay) The Addiopizzo Guide For the Critical Consumer www.addiopizzo.org Visiting Palermo and want to be sure you don;t pay any money to the Mafia? This map help you do it. In the backside ...
The Road to Catania
It's finally time to say goodbye to Palermo, and I couldn’t be more pleased. This town seems full of people not interested in you speaking Italian to them – they still don’t understand you, and make you ask them in English anyway, which ...
Giardino Inglese
After a thoroughly-enjoyed sleep-in following a night of too many beers and cocktails on my behalf, it appears we have missed breakfast. To be honest, I'm not sad to do without yet another morning meal of nutella and bread, and it appears Leanne shares a ...
RossoPomodoro!
... of us were really that hungry - and so we head to RossoPomodoro (red tomato). We have walked past it many times on our adventurous around Palermo, so it seems natural we should finally try it. Leanne can't decide, so I order for both of us. My my, what a ...
Our disastorous trip to Cefalu
... city of Cefalu was really beautiful and seemed really lovely, but the day was ruined by this experience. We couldn't wait to get to Palermo, found our hotel and just relax. Steve's back is really hurting him, so we might try find a cheap massage place. ...
Birth place of the Mafia
... lip biting pain). After wrapping up my foot so it looked a little like a mummified limb we hit the public transport for Palermo. After an hours ride into town we again were really impressed with how simple the pubic transport was and how helpful ...
From the North to the South and back to the North.
Palermo, a city of many faces. The last few days we have spent in Palermo have been really interesting. The first night, we tried our hardest to find a resturant that had the most recommendations online, only to find it was shut and they were on ...
A week in Sicily...pittoresque and delicious
... booth, here you go problem solved they could figure out themselves. We made it fine. Jul 20th - Next day was spent walking around Palermo, visited the main sites, the highlight was lunch at a "non-tourist" cafe where they only had one item on the menu ...
Blisters, Mafia and Sardines
... duty band aids. Somehow with my limited Italian and a very lovely pharmacist we agreed on the required first aid!! Palermo greeted us with perfect travelling weather and some very unexpected southern hospitality. The host at our B&B was delightful. ...
Palermo- Sicily
... ! Priests, altar boys and children with red roses. Rose petals were thrown from the high windows overlooking the parade. Visited the Palermo Cathedral, most impressive inside and out. We have never see so many churches in such a small area, we wonder if ...
Along the coast from Palermo.
... park. There were facilities of loos and showers and a bar on the beach and it wasnt too crowded so everyone happy. Returning to Palermo was very slow because everyone else was going back and there was also a Festival in the city which closed several roads ...
Palermo & Mondello, Sicily - Italy
... ;square of the city area of Palermo right near the Port - we joined a hop-on, hop-off sightseeing bus around the city. Palermo is noisy & chaotic with most of its buildings over 200 years old, some dating back to 12th century - fought over ...
Palermo to Catania - Sicily
... . We got some croissants and juice for breakfast - we drank the juice and ate some plum bread we bought yesterday. Arriving in Palermo, we were pleasantly surprised to see the train station clean and free of cigarette butts and litter. We wondered if the ...
Palermo Pre-Day
Friday, September 21, 2007 Palermo I wake rested and ready to explore. It is easy to cover a lot of ground in the city center, and I visit several outdoor markets and a couple of churches. I even manage to purchase my gifts for the farewell ...
Palermo, Sicily: never trust public transport
Day 139 - 140, 23rd - 24th October 2006, Palermo, Sicily: never trust public transport It was a very short drive today, only about 80kms but the traffic was awful going through Palermo, as we expected, it is often compared with Rome or Napoli traffic ...
A culinary delight - cannelloni with phlegm sauce!
... - excellent) and cassata (some type of Sicilian cake). It was also good, but the settevelli overpowered it a little. Palermo - there certainly is some stunning architecture here. Fountains, plazas, gardens ... it's a great place to walk. Absolutely ...
Boat ride and some Mummies
... to help us through this struggle. This book was great. It heleped us come to a realization that there is no hotel available in Palermo, thanks to this guy at Hotel Lampedusa. He ended up calling all the hotels in town and found a vacancy at Hotel ...
Palermo
... wait for a train to pass us. As soon as we got off the train, we checked in our bags and started our trek around Palermo. We should have asked for a map first because we went to the wrong part of town. Windows were broken out of cars and the ...
Driving across Sicily
... Palermo. The drive across from Catania via the A29 reveals a mountainous barren landscape with little cultivation. The arrival into Palermo is disappointing as the outskirts like any major city are full of the blocks of uninspiring apartments. However ...
Arrivederci al Prossimo Viaggio
... Stromboli hike; ends up they had also been staying at the same B&B as us! We had an hour wait for our train to Palermo and had a great conversation with the couple from Australia who are on week six of a seven week vacation. Can you say "green ...
Heartbreaking Decison
18 October - 21 October 2011 Istanbul - Rome Flight Alitalia Airlines Rome - Palermo - Night train Weather - sun shining of course it is we are leaving After the fiasco with Olympic Air and the Greek strikes rescheduling our flights to Greece two ...
Palermo.
The population of Palermo is 657,935. Italy infact is shaped like a boot. Our bridge crosses the Tyranian sea. Type of bridge- Beam bridge. ...
Cefalu to Palermo & Monreale & On Board
We took the coast road until just before Palermo and then visited a hillside community called Moneeale. There was a significant Norman influence in this settlement. On the way back we found a typical for us shopping centre but unusual for here. Finding ...