Caparena Hotel Taormina
189 Via Nazionale Taormina, Sicily, 98039, Italy
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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
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We finally made it to Enoteca Antica. I thought we were going to have trouble getting in, given the crowds we’d experienced that whole distance we walked (1.5 to 2 miles). But, as luck would have it, we got a seat in the bar just as we walked in. We had a new person serve us who, it turns out, is a young woman from Cuba. We chatted, ordered 3 glasses of wine (me…Paul’s not drinking), antipasti and a pizza. ...
Porto Messina
... in running a bed and breakfast). We have met some of the folks I was in touch on the cruise critic roll call..others we meet at dinner where we sit with different groups every night. A couple of ladies we sat with on the first night were from Toronto. Actually, one from Pickering and the other East York. She still resides in the area that she grew up in, which was the same area as Rob. We even went to high school together, however, she was in grade 10 when we were in grade 12....small ...
Pompei to the boot
... and direction how could he fail.
Hotel was just lovely, sat on the terrace enjoying the view, played cards and drank wine of course, found some dinner at a nearby restaurant (pasta and pizza... yummo) and off to bed.
Next morning we managed to get back down to the “autostrade” and continued south till we found Pozzallo which is in the southern most tip of Sicily and the ferry for Malta. Sicily is very much cleaner and tidier ...
The Lady
... with four cloisters. It is amazing to think of what treasurers are buried still today. Riding past the Ursino Castle dating back to 1239 a massive very impressive medieval castle with four towers centrally located in Catania. In 1669 lava filled the moat encircled the castle and distanced the castle from the sea and the coast. You can see its original position in a 1679 painting which hangs in the Cathedral. Villa Bellini, monumental ...
This hotel was formerly known as: Lido Caparena



