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Palermo Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Palermo, Italy
Palermo - Better than Catania, still underwhelming
Palermo was at least nicer than Catania, but I was still not a big fan. However, I never had a chance to get outside the city. It did have a cool little outdoor market where I spotted an autographed picture of David Duchovny amongst some random trinkets ...
Tunis to Palermo
... next 4 hours in the terminal. We boarded at about 3am & the ship left ort at 4.30 for a very calm voyage to Palermo. As we were sitting up it was long hard night & much to our surprise we found that most people ripped the seat squabs ...
Getting Lost and Found
... dinner - most restaurants don't open until 8:00 pm. Had a fun time window shopping. My first impressions of Palermo - this is not watered-down-for-the-tourists Italy. It's the real thing. Very few people speak English so I need to keep the phrase book ...
Italy Begins
... hostel and we toured down town all day today. We hope to get a late lunch then tomorrow we will leave for the south east of Sicily. Palermo is nice, a bit dirty but the people just crack me up. As a friend warned me, there is just no concept of lines and ...
Palermo, Italy
... It was just a short half mile or so to the Bus Stop that we would use to start our tour around this city of Italy. Palermo is a small compact geographical city that has new sights and sounds around every corner. Every location we see has a very impressive ...
Palermo
... an hour and a half later. It was strange being in Palermo after staying in relatively small towns my entire time in Italy so far. Palermo seemed chaotic, large, and impersonal in comparison to the small villages where our camps have been. The buildings, ...
A walk around Palermo
... . Less pricey is the Diego pizzeria on Via Enrico Albanese which is great on a Sunday- really buzzing and packed and excellent food. We had to admit that the food we had in Sicily was the best we have had in Italy- but you have to love fish and ...
Erice / Palermo
Sunday, September 23, 2007 Erice / Palermo A new guide this morning, Juliette. She is fabulous. Been guiding for 29 years, and really knows the history of the Island. She was able to tell the history like it was a story, making it very ...
Train to the capital of Sicily
Saturday: Up at 7am to get the 8:10 train to Palermo to see the famous mummies, I bet they didn't think they would be hung on the walls for tourists to gawk at, the oldest was 1599 up to 1922. Had lunch at a little street cafe and saw the sights. had ...
La Aurora
... filth and a hurricane of black pigeons that wade in putrid water. You could very easily, however, take out "New York" and put in "Palermo". As clean as Jakarta and about as much fun, this is one place in which you don't want to waste time. I was honestly ...
Monreale and Cefalu
We started the tour by visiting Monreale, a short drive form Palermo, to see the massive Cathedral built in 1174. The wall paintings were incredible and were like a book to educate the population about the old and New Testament stories. Mind you there was ...
day to ourselves around Palermo
... not open to the public. Mont Pellegrino is famous for being the final resting place of Santa Rosalia, the Patron Saint of Palermo.....it was also the place where someone found her mortal remains back in the 1600's and in a vision that same person ...
Anniversary
The scenery on the train ride from Agrigento to Palermo was really lovely, although slightly spoiled by the fact that we forgot to validate our tickets and were facing a 50 euro fine if caught - luckily Bill managed to jump of the train at a station and ...
Umbria to Sicily
We were picked up by Francesco to drive us to Rome airport. His perfect English turned out be not surprising as he was born in Blackpool to an English mother an Italian father and was married to an American girl. When we got to the airport we found that ...
Palermo
... allowed me to pass out while being fully aware). We arrived so early that we were still able to trek around all of Palermo by foot and seeing a lot of the city. During the city’s closed hours (most of Italy shuts down between 1-4 give or ...
Are you talkin to me??
... on them, Ben explains that they are shops that refuse to pay the protection money, which many place still pay today. That night we sat in the bar and watched a Palermo football match before getting an early night the catch the flight the next ...
Sicily: Day 5 & 6 – Palermo/Piazza Armerina
... thousands of mummies mounted against walls or lying in see-through caskets. Later that afternoon we took a stroll through Palermo’s historical city centre, with the Pretoria Fountain (probably not named after Andries Pretorius!) being a highlight. ...
ONE BAG
The day of travel from Malaga to Palermo was unpleasant at times. First, we had a bit of time finding the airport bus when leaving Malaga. Then, the price of paying little to fly Easy Jet is that one feels persecuted by the luggage limitations. One is ...
Palermo
... Tunisian tour but it was nice to be able to wander at will rather than under orders. Every coin has 2 faces. Walking in Palermo is an exciting experience as many of the streets are just narrow lanes & traffic rules seem to be advisory rather than ...
On part pour la Sicile
... pas une très belle vile: c'est très sale et tortueux. Les gens sont, par contre, assez gentils. Avant de partir de Palermo, nous avons visité le marché public qui est assez typique et spécial; plusieurs centaines de boutiques et d'étals tout le ...
Lively Markets and Dead Bodies
We wanted to see a bit of Palermo in the daylight before picking up our rental car and heading to Cefalu, so we packed up, left our bags at the front desk, and headed out into the city. While less frightening by day it was more crowded and the filth was ...
Agrigento
Today we drove from Palermo to Agrigento. The coast of Sicily around Palermo is quite barren. The mountains come quite close to the sea so there is a narrow strip of marginal land growing oranges and olives ( and houses) but to get to Agrigento we had to ...