Hotel Addaura Residence And Congress Palermo

... eu un service incroyable, on doute meme que le personnel soient italient tellement ils etaient fin!

finalement, a la tomber du jour, ou l'heure de l'apero et des tapas en italie la ville commence a vivre, nous avons gouter au marons chaud puis a quelques tapas avant de rentrer !

WE depart Sicily with wonderful memories of sunny skies, blue Mediterranean seas, green hillsides covered with grape vines and olive trees, old cities, castles and greek temples, and of course good food.
We will see more sights in Rome, and then travel down the coast to Sorrento and Amalfi. I will post more about the things we are doing and seeing as we continue our trip.

... were taken by the spectacular views of buildings littering the sides of the steep slopes above, and each twist & turn of the road revealed even more pretty views, either below or continuing above......all the sharp turns and accompanying rocky confines of the road were covered by various forms of greenery, making for a truly lovely spot.


Here, as at Etna, we were left to our own devices by Marco, who informed us we had 2.5 hrs to discover Taormina on foot....we ...

After another good breakfast, and enjoyed a chat with an Aussie couple from Perth at the restaurant (we really made the most of conversing with other English-speaking people for the first time in a week...amazing how cut-off you can feel at times when in unfamiliar surroundings where everyone speaks another language!)


We walked down the street a short distance to catch one of the many & varied city bus lines to get to Palermo's famous resort beach of Mondello ...

After a nice breakfast at the hotel (included in the overnight tariff), we were picked up by our guide for the day, Salvatore (once again, we turned out to be the only people taking this particular tour today, so we ended up being personally escorted all day!)


Travelled 70km to ancient Segesta, marvelling at the hilltop township ruins, famous Segesta temple, beautiful Segesta theatre taking in magnificent views over towards the coastline, across large surrounding ...

arrived around 8pm at airport & sped (120kph) to hotel by recent model Mercedes! checked in & walked down street to Trattoria for late tea of authentic pizza (delicious!)



Next Morning, we were picked up by our personal giude for the morning, Valentina. Well educated, spoke excellent English plus great knowledge of history & architectural styles made for a fascinating morning around the old city.



Valentina drove ...

... a hotel Apartment. I booked at Aragona. The apartment was great inside, for just 75 euro, however to get the key and use the kitchen we had to pay 25 extra. We decided not to bother as it was not worth it.
We had breakfast at the hotel which was ok, and we could always have something for lunch outside, and dinner at night without paying lots of money. The hotel was centrally located.....I did a lot of studying and I did not want to go there by taxi. I ...

... control he was talking to the second guy and then he was typing really really slowly like he saw the computer for the first time. Next stop our luggage. Thats where the fun starts. My backbags rope got stuck in the baggage belt and all other luggage was piling behind y bag and falling off the belt. It was fun to watch of course but my backbags rope was really really stuck. Some passengers formed a rescue squad ...

... cleared the areas. This site in this picture may or may not be one of those, but I suspect it is, since it had trees and grass growing in the rubble. Past the Piazza Pretoria, I turned west and headed through some narrow streets to eventually find myself in a very busy outdoor market that stretched through the Piazza Ballaro and adjoining streets. The vendors were selling ...

... of the other famous sits of downtown. however i am flying back there one monday and will hopefully have some more time next week. i will be traveling with remy all next week and ending our time together in paris so that i can pick up my cousin. currently, i am in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. i arrived here Friday, but was so tired that i slept all afternoon Friday and didn't wake up until Saturday morning. i have been walking around ...