Hotel Federico Ii Messina
Contrada Belvedere Messina, Sicily, 98065, 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
... shuffling from a mass of people packing the piazza, the smell of roasting chestnuts and the squeaky, overexcited voices of sugar-energized kids. And we could hardly wait to join in the festivities.
Are plan was to walk to one of our favorite restaurants (La Cave) and realized that it was only 7pm and way too early for dinner—they’d probably not even be set up for any guests. So instead we headed in the opposite direction ...
Pompei to the boot
... on the foot path. Very inventive, these Italians/sicilians.
Our road south took us along the coast, mainly on huge via ducts, way up in the air between the cliffs and the water. Got to Taormina and found the town built the same way. Made our way to our hotel after getting lost several times. It was on the top of the cliff and the road up was OMG so windy, high and narrow, but Mike did a great job, with 4 other navigators and lots of ...
Beautiful!
We headed off by bus from Messina to Taormina where we could spend the entire day. Our group's guide was Christie, who has been doing this for 37 years! He was knowledgeable, welcoming and most charming. We walked the length of the main 'drag' of the town, then up to see the Greek theatre - what an amazing view! At lunch time we were free to either return to the ship or stay to wander a couple more hours. I elected to stay and found a ...
Messina
... en dat is geen enkel probleem (bij het eten kopen we wel altijd een fles van de boot) Zij willen het ook wel proberen maar durven niet zo goed. Wanneer wij zeggen dat we er nu ook één gaan kopen, dan rapen ze al hun moed bijeen en kopen ze ook 2 flessen. Ze durven wel niet alleen terug aan boord en vragen of ze mee mogen lopen. Wij wandelen zonder verpinken aan boord en zij volgen ons bloednerveus (zoals één van de twee zelf zei: nerveus alsof ze ...



