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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
We headed off early from Amalfi for another cliff side bus trip to Salerno. Only 30 kms but one hour fifteen minutes of tricky bus driving at Italy's exhilirating best. Joined the train at Salerno for a six hour trip down the coast to Messina. At that point we viewed Italian skills at their best. On the mainland side the train was split into two, one half going to Palermo and our section on to Taormina. In ...
The 8890 ft elevation of Mount Etna
... La Spiga again, a family run restaurant where Lloyd again had a Margherita pizza with Salami and I had their ravioli's with a pistachio cream sauce, accompanied by a bottle of Fueda Bianco. La Spiga was busy with lots of families celebrating various occasions. You could tell this was the local place everyone gathered at. Food was good and there was plenty of it. Back at the B&B, we watched half of Rattatoie, then crashed and burned from a very long and tiring ...
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 ...
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