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Corfu & Sicily
Corfu & Sicily: An interesting welcome back to the life of a backpacker. My next blog starts in Corfu, another Greek Island. After our Contiki finished Lisa and I decided to hop onto a plane and jet away to Corfu. We had heard so many amazing things about Corfu, and we had also had a lot of trouble trying to find a way to Sicily in Italy, and it just so happened that we could get to Sicily from Corfu so it all fell into place nicely. After two luxury weeks in hotels it was back to ...
Taormina
October 18 Taormina (7 A.M.) Wow! Wow! Medieval town nestled on high cliffs overlooking the Mediterranean. Lots of photo ops here! We have a short orientation tour then we're on our own. Planning to dip our toes in the sea, we will have to take a cable car to the bottom. Last night we went by bus to a local Sicilian restaurant, ...
Sicily
... old (see picture), Almond trees and Junipers. Olive trees, left alone without modern intervention, take up to 12-15 years to mature and produce olives. Eaten directly from the tree, olives are bitter, they need to be marinated in oils and spices. We're celebrating someone else's birthday today and we will have a toast with a local drink and a local dessert. Our last 2 nights will be in Taormina, on the Ionian Sea (an arm of the ...
Life in Italy - part 2
... inside In the south, lots and lots of solar panels in fields by the side of the highways. Butter on tables only for breakfast, no butter for rolls or bread at dinner time Using salt and pepper is an insult to the chef, rarely do you see them on the table Shops are closed from about 1 to 4. School is 7 AM to 1 ...
Oct 17, 2012
... so far as to bring us chairs to sit on from another house. We laughed and talked, and ended up taking photos with them. What kick it was. We finally left and headed back to La Locanda to get ready for dinner.which was suppose to be starting sometime after 8:15. Well, the first course didn't get to the table until 9:15, then there was a second, third and fourth course, followed by Grappa! We slid out of there on our asses...so full of the best meal we had ...