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Mount Etna and Taormina

A travel blog entry by mamadorsey

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... to the beauty of this area.

We headed down the mountain towards the beautiful town of Taormina. All that you can imagine about an old Italian town was here to see. Balconies with clothes lines going from one apartment across to the other 5-6 floors up, singing Italian waiters, outdoor restaurants where the table and chairs are actually on very wide steps leading from the bottom of the street up to another joining street at the top, so you are ...

Island of Vulcano

A travel blog entry by ireneandchris

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... night. We stopped here 3 years ago with Phil and Lesley on board from Wellington and very little has changed. The sulphur smell is still the same, the mud pools look smaller, maybe the mud has been used up. The sea still bubbles and is 28 degrees. But the best thing is we don't have to walk to the crater rim as we did that 3 years ago.
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Messina, Sicily

A travel blog entry by gsrj.harker

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... walking on stones and gravel...you don't realize how wonderful our sandy beaches are. Not sure what was the greater miracle, that the girls didn't spend too much, or that they made it back to the train station on their own on time!!!! The boys were ashamed of their father as he joined in the European, uninhibited beach side process of getting all the gear off to get into and out of swimmers. They preferred the trip home looking like the had wet themselves. ...

Walking on the Moon

A travel blog entry by baumyj

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... Etna. Then the clouds covered it again but it had cleared again before we left. There were heaps of lady bugs around, attracted by the heat in the black lava. The area was very barren as there had been so many flows here

Our main stop was at the site of previous lava flows. We had the difference between a flank eruption and a cone eruption explained, this part being a flank eruption. A flank eruption occurs when a part of the volcano has cracks, often from earthquakes. ...

DAY 19 – MESSINA & TAORMINA, SICILY

A travel blog entry by trishbullard

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... looking out to sea was a huge gold statue of the Virgin Mary. This was erected to honour Mary after pilgrims travelled from Messina to the Holy Land to see her. She later wrote a letter, thanking the people of Messina for travelling so far, and blessed all who passed her shores.

It was another 7.30am start as we drove west to the beautiful town of Taormina. Our guide gave us some of the history of Messina along the way describing its checkered history ...

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