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La Dolce Vita
A lovely morning in Messina and we are hoping to disembark early enough to catch the train to Taormina. Unfortunately the Italian officials took their time so it was 9.20am when we got off and not quite enough time left to catch the train.
There were taxi drivers offering to go there for €120 for 4 people and stay and hour. We got together with another couple and negotiated down to €100 for a 2.5 hour stay, only 1 driver would take this so off we ...
Jewel of An Island
... br> After our meal we walked back to the hotel to burn off some of the calories we consumed! We were in bed by 11pm….our taxi would pick us up at way too early at 6am.
Taormina, Sicily, Italy
December 9, 2011
Our flight from Rome to Catania was rather uneventful and we were both excited about visiting a whole new area of Italy. It was rather cloudy when we left, but the clouds let up a bit upon our arrival in ...
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
... highways, we even saw a 3 story building with no doors, roof or windows and was chocked full of rubbish bags. You must google 'naples rubbish problem' and you will be astounded.
Anyway back to our main story, we drove into Pozzallo and found our hotel, nice, new small place on main street. Pozzallo was our stop to return car, stay the night and hop on 9.15am ferry to Malta the next morning.
See you then,
from all the Parker and Jen ...
The Lady
... proving a little too much for me and ended up rearranging the lovely neat hedged path way. Riding back to our accommodation we passed thru some less desirable areas some of which looked like a travelers camp. Numerous motor homes that looked like they had not moved for quite some time, tarps over them and really like a squatters camp. So much rubbish around too very disheartening. Also around the Stazione many homeless people.
Enough ...


