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Taormina (Sicily), Italy
Naxos is gateway to the island of Sicily's strategically significant northeastern region. From this port city, it is a short transfer to Taormina, resting 820 feet above the sea and overlooking imposing Mount Etna. In the early 20th century, Taormina became a colony for expatriate artists and writers, including D H Lawrence. Highlights of any tour of this city would include the remarkably preserved Roman-style Greek Theater, whose acoustics ...
Left the boot now to Sicily
... largest active volcano in Europe and dominates the landscape all around here. We have had a quiet Sunday in Taormina today and head off tomorrow on a tour to Syracuse which is reportedly very beaufiful. Good to see you are enjoying the blogs...appreciate your comments.
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Day 4
... in reading it. Here are some quotes from the book from Chapter 1 that I find fascinating: "Not so long ago, paleontologists uncovered a mass in a fossilized skull of a Gorgosaurus, a close relative of Tyrannosaurus rex. A brain tumor, had brought down one of the Earth's most notorious carnivores, connecting a late-Mesozoic cancer patient to human brain cancer victims." "Cancer has struck and killed ...
Day 3
... to show more pics :-) the other thing I have not mentioned here...Kenny's Italian has been amazing. He is communicating with everyone in Italian and gets mad when they talk to him in English. He had a full detailed conversation yesterday with an Italian lady that workbed for her son Michael Angelo , a designer that custom makes clothes and shoes. I had no idea what they were talking about for 15 minutes. I just smiled when ...
Day 2
... WAS LUNCH TIME. I was going to have my normal fruit and protein bar however kenny had suggested I try my first real canoli. FOR LUNCH!!!! I was so excited!!!!! So I had chocolate and regular minis. They were yummy. I was still hungry though. He then suggested that I get pizza. I could not believe this was coming from him. So I had pizza. Yup that is right a canoli and then the pizza. So delicious ...but as of now Ny is not doing so bad on the scale of perfection with ...