HOTEL DELLE TERME Catania
VIA ALCIDE DE GASPERI29 ACIREALE Catania, Sicily, 95024, Italy
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La Dolce Vita
... for Christmas and the atmosphere was very calm and peaceful, unlike the hurly burly in the summer months when it is full of day trippers.
The theatre has such a beautiful setting, but Etna was a little shaded by cloud although clearly visible to the naked eye, wit ha little smoke rising from it's peak. Unfortunately only the close up photos showed it off well. And we were lucky, it erupted a couple of days later!
A stop for coffee and an ...
Jewel of An Island
... the distance and elevation we climbed. We probably went 3 miles and at least 1,000 feet up. First, we followed the steps (and the stations of the cross) that led us to a little chapel overlooking the town and just below the castle. There we bumped into a wedding and I took the requisite wedding photos. From there we walked another significant distance and climb (again, I’ll point it out in the photo) to Castelmola, a pretty, ...
The Sicilian Fly-By and Swiss Fighter Intercept
... by a Swiss Fighter". Sure enough, out of the sun comes a fighter jet and slowly pulls forward and closer to us. The kids waived, the pilot waived back and then banked hard left and dove for the clouds. We have video....but still have to get the video off the tape & onto the computers....our "camcorder" has not been updated even as we have continued to update our ...
Pompei to the boot
... ordered so in our broken English/Italian/hand gesturing we told him we weren’t happy, he shrugged, and we left. Anyway, we piled in and hit the road. Masses of roadworks, probably 60% of merging single lane, barricaded off areas and in 400klm of roadworks we saw only one team of 3 guys. Must have been break time. Got to Reggio di Calabria, in the boot, in record time. Mike was driving most of the way and he was sitting on 130-140 (speed limit 130) and ...
The Lady
... hair did not have the heart to tell her though. Spent the next week scratching continually and getting Tom to complete hair checks. Back to the tour, Andreas gave us the complete guided tour to waterfalls, canyons, a valley view from part way up the mountain (shame it was clouded out - story of our lives), orchards with olive trees by the way they taste disgusting straight off the tree and a famed padlock post which contains thousands of padlocks ...


