Catania Cristal Park

I just checked out my 'stats' section and I'm quite pleased with my little blog and how much people are enjoying reading about my travels. I have over 20 5-star ratings and over 2,000 viewings. That is so incredibly awesome!<br><br>Apparently my photos are also not so bad. Travelpod has selected almost a dozen of them to be included in the daily ...

Sheesh, my blog is turning into a Grey's Anatomy show will all these song lyrics in the title. Hey, by the way, is Grey's on? I can't believe I'm missing a whole season of my shows. (Yes, I would rather be in Italy than watching McDreamy. But it's a close race. KIDDING.)<br><br>I arrived in Giardini Naxos yesterday. I had originally planned on taking the train, but the bus worked out better so I was a couple hours early. I found the hostel without any hitches. As you know, that is rather ...

... artistic and cultural places <br>Typical of fun and excitement of the nightlife of Catania suit stays <br>pleasure, <br>places of economic interest but also suitable for business travelers. <br>Alba Hotel overlooks the beautiful and bustling Via Etnea, center <br>undisputed of Catania, extending for 3 km from the Duomo to the park <br>Tondo Gioeni, <br>and finally it shows the background the imposing and ...

... condizionata, tutte le comodità per<br>trascorrere durante la permanenza gradevoli e rilassanti momenti,<br>all'interno del cuore di Catania, le nostre stanze, curate nei minimi<br>particolari, rendono perfettamente il nostro concetto di ospitalità,<br>dove pulizia e accuratezza permettono una piacevole permanenza, ed è<br>questo a renderci tra i migliori B&amp;B di questa stupenda città.

With our bus leaving at 11.30 to Catania we decided to get one more arancini and do one last sweeping tour of the market, that move nearly cost us our seat, OK we were the last ones to get a seat but we didn't get to sit together, mind you we didn't have to stand for the 3 hour journey, so things could have been a lot worse. <br><br>Catania is a laid back city, much of it is constructed from the black lava which poured down the mountain and engulfed the ...

... zuvor anderen gästen die rucksäcke mit allem drin gestohlen wurden, sodass wir uns nicht zu weit von unseren rucksäcken entfernen wollten.<br><br>Am abend hatten wir dafür glück mit dem kleinen restaurant, wo wir für eur 4.50 sehr gute &#8218;pasta alla norma' essen konnten (leider blieb es unsere letzte wirklich gute restaurant-erfahrung).<br><br> Am nächsten tag buchten wir eine exkursion auf den ätna, welche von einem ausgebildeten und akkreditierten ...

A lovely quaint very old area. Stayed in a lovely hotel with great attentive staff would recommend it to any couple looking for a romantic break or second honeymoon. Just off the main shopping street of Corso Umberto but found that the shopping was over priced so don't go expecting any bargains.

The people from Florence are described as "changeable and moody".<br><br>Mt. Etna is much the same.<br><br>Evolution of the volcano is described as:<br><br>&#8220;destructive periods, collapses, landslides and subsidences alternate with constructive periods (explosive, pyroclastic activity &amp; emission of lava).&#8221;<br><br>Much like us people. J<br><br>Italians ...

... but my grandma ended up falling and we had to take her to the hospital. i was there all day and they said she had a fractured femur bone so keep her in your prayers. i am hopefully going to go out with my cousins tonight but i am not sure. miss you all a ton. hope you are doing good. lovelovelove

... to sleep on your journey and plan ahead sleep wise because if you don't you'll end up like me and miss your stop. Thankfully the train terminated at Reggio di Calabria and there was a return train that got me back to VSG before my ferry left, though I was pretty lucky to be honest. The straits, I have to say, however, are fantastic in the early morning light and there really is a real sense of arrival - I know that's cliche but its true - as you approach Messina's ...