Hotel Corsaro Nicolosi

Catania photos here:
http://www.facebook.com/album. php?aid=168080&id=613699523&l=b 66c2b2ea1

We were debating whether to do a Mt Etna tour but in the end decided to give it a miss as it was expensive and we weren't guaranteed on seeing much depending on the conditions up the mountain.
Instead we caught a train ...

I just checked out my 'stats' section and I'm quite pleased with my little blog and how much people are enjoying reading about my travels. I have over 20 5-star ratings and over 2,000 viewings. That is so incredibly awesome!

Apparently my photos are also not so bad. Travelpod has selected almost a dozen of them to be included in the daily ...

... I let myself behind the reception desk and found a phone. At first I kept thinking, "Josie, you should be nervous. You should be scared. Your wuh-oh alarm should be going off. You should be wanting to leave. You should be thinking about finding other accommodations." But there's something about Sicily that just sets my risk-taking genes on fire. If I had actually felt scared or uncomfortable I would have done any of those things. But I didn't get that sense and so instead I have just ...

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

With our bus leaving at 11.30 to Catania we decided to get one more arancini and do one last sweeping tour of the market, that move nearly cost us our seat, OK we were the last ones to get a seat but we didn't get to sit together, mind you we didn't have to stand for the 3 hour journey, so things could have been a lot worse.

Catania is a laid back city, much of it is constructed from the black lava which poured down the mountain and engulfed the ...

... fahren können. Wahrscheinlich war dem guide die fahrkarte zu teuer und so war sein reingewinn grösser.


nach 3 tage in catania waren wir doch froh, diese stadt verlassen zu können.....wir freuten uns auf das neue Ziel 'Taormina', wo es eine schöne altstadt auf einem hügel gebe und dazu ein spezieller strand mit der isola bella.

also das nächst beste hostal im internet gebucht und am nächsten tag mit bus und zug richtung taormina....... :-)

A lovely quaint very old area. Stayed in a lovely hotel with great attentive staff would recommend it to any couple looking for a romantic break or second honeymoon. Just off the main shopping street of Corso Umberto but found that the shopping was over priced so don't go expecting any bargains.

The people from Florence are described as "changeable and moody".

Mt. Etna is much the same.

Evolution of the volcano is described as:

“destructive periods, collapses, landslides and subsidences alternate with constructive periods (explosive, pyroclastic activity & emission of lava).”

Much like us people. J

Italians ...

... feeling in my fingers and have great trouble moving them.
I climb up scree - with every step I take I slide back so it's extremely laborious getting anywhere. Then I get to a volcanic rock area. These rocks are porous and brittle - when you step on them they move or shatter so I have to very gingerly work my way across, and if I fall will get cut badly as they have extremely sharp edges. I have what seems an ocean of them in front of me and I can see it will take me hours of ...

... Dubrovnik and not necessarily in that order. Iwanted totake a ferry from Bari, Italy to Dubrovnik but there isnàt one until Jan. 3 now, arriving on the 4th and that is cutting it fine as I need to fly out of Frankfurt on the 8th and wanted to be there on the 6thand the train from Dubrovnikt o Frankfurt probably takes at least 12 hours. Oh well I'll figure it out! We'll see where I spend New Years at this rate! Have a nice lead up to New Years!