Excelsior Grand Hotel Catania

... images section on their homepage. I'm stoked!<br><br>But here's the thing I think is coolest. (See photo to the left.) I assumed most of these countries were highlighted because I've been meeting fellow travelers, but then I realized there are some countries here where I haven't met people from. Which means random people in random parts of the ...

... my own way back. So then when the buses that I could have taken began passing me, I thought, nah this is pretty good. I'm enjoying myself, I'll just grab the next bus at the next stop. I bet I walked 3 miles with that attitude. Which normally I would expect cheers and praise. BUT. I'm in Sicily. In Italy. I'm a girl. With a cake-load of new makeup. And alllll by myself. Walking down the teeny side (sometimes no side) of a curvy, country highway/road. I wish I was fund raising for every ...

... Mount Etna. <br>Among shops, pubs, restaurants, coffee bars, pubs, discos, game rooms, <br>parks, banks, you can appreciate the many buildings and places: Piazza <br>University <br>and Palazzo San Giuliano, the Collegiate Church, the Church of the Child, Piazza <br>Stesicoro, Villa Bellini and Piazza Cavour, also known as "the village". <br><br>The B &amp; B Hotel Alba is 50 meters from the lively and ...

<br>La nostra struttura, si trova nella via più<br>centrale di Catania, la sempre affollata e vivissima Via Etnea, da<br>alcune delle nostre stanze infatti, è possibile affacciarsi<br>direttamente sulla tipica movida Catanese, questa posizione rende<br>facile raggiungere ogni punto di interesse della città, dagli uffici<br>amministrativi ai locali di maggiore attrazione, alle università ecc ...

... disappointment we headed back to our hostel as the rain started to fall. It looks like we haven't left the bad weather behind us, yet. <br><br>We checked the weather report for the next few days and they weren't looking to good, with that in mind we decided to book our train ticket and head to Rome on the next overnight train. <br><br>We had one last day in Sicily and the weather looked like we could step out of doors. We headed straight for the bus ...

... angeführt wurde und es hiess (auch im lonely-planet-reiseführer), dass man mit einem solchen guide in gebiete des ätnas eingelassen werde, zu welchem man sonst keinen zutritt habe&#8230;dies liessen wir uns eine stange geld kosten.<br><br>Dieser vulkanologe, welcher nur gebrochen englisch sprechen konnte, nahm uns in seinem prähistorischen rangerover mit quer durch die holprigen strassen von catania und befahl uns, in dem quartier wo unser hostal lag, die ...

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 ...

... the Volcano. It was an amazing place. We sat down and discussed our plan when Tavar, the American receiver called me about the party. I told him we'd try and get up to his place and meant it, but really I knew between Mike's state of exhaustion and having to try and catch a bus or a cab we probably would just call it an early night. Greg had told us around our B&amp;B would be cracking to because it was a national holiday, Italy's independence from fascism ...

Mom, dad, guess what? I met an Italian guy and life is wonderful.... no really. I invested in an 'engagement ring' as I still have Malta Greece and Turkey to go (at least) and let me tell you it's the best 10 euros I've spent so far! It paid itself on the bus to Catania already by keeping some horny teenager w/ his grandma at bay. yesssssss!!!!!! next on Aislinn's shopping list? shoes that don't leak :( Catania has the sleaziest, most unsafe train station area yet ...