President Park Hotel Catania

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

Sheesh, my blog is turning into a Grey's Anatomy show will all these song lyrics in the title. Hey, by the way, is Grey's on? I can't believe I'm missing a whole season of my shows. (Yes, I would rather be in Italy than watching McDreamy. But it's a close race. KIDDING.)<br><br>I arrived in Giardini Naxos yesterday. I had originally planned on taking the train, but the bus worked out better so I was a couple hours early. I found the hostel without any hitches. As you know, that is rather ...

... Mount Etna. <br>Among shops, pubs, restaurants, coffee bars, pubs, discos, game rooms, <br>parks, banks, you can appreciate the many buildings and places: Piazza <br>University <br>and Palazzo San Giuliano, the Collegiate Church, the Church of the Child, Piazza <br>Stesicoro, Villa Bellini and Piazza Cavour, also known as "the village". <br><br>The B &amp; B Hotel Alba is 50 meters from the lively and ...

... br>B&amp;B Massimo, ha una lunga tradizione di<br>ospitalità e accoglienza, che ha reso la nostra struttura B&amp;B, tra<br>le più affidabili della città. Veniteci a trovare, per prenotazioni o<br>maggiori informazioni, compilate il form nella sezione contattaci.<br>I nostri servizi: Parcheggio e prima colazione<br>le nostre stanze Ampie, spaziose, dai colori caldi<br>e gradevoli, parquet ...

... in the 1669 eruption in which nearly 12 000 people lost their lives. It is not a brilliant black it kind of gives the city a dirty look. <br><br>Our early morning tour of Catania started with 'La Pescheria' (fish market), followed by the chaos of the produce market were we brought fresh fruit and some amazing panini, bread stuffed with tomato, mozzarella and a spicy olive paste. From there we headed up to the Castello Ursino and some Roman ruins (something ...

... lust und neugier an sizilien schwand von tag zu tag zu dieser zeit :-)....jeden tag mit den arroganten (oder zumindest enorm unfreundlichen) sizilianer konfrontiert zu sein, ständig falsche infos zu bekommen, sich über nichtfunktionierende infrastruktur zu ärgern und dazu überall dieser stinkende dreck und leute die ihren müll überall hinwerfen,die autos auf dem parkplatz unbesetzt laufen lassen (wegen klimaanlage innen) undd man daneben im restaurant essen möchte oder was ...

... das sei halt einfach in dieser 2.grössten sizilianischen stadt der fall (später mussten wir merken, dass dies überall so ist). <br>übrigens: schaut euch unter den fotos vorallem den video-zusammenschnitt an über die vespa-fahrer auf sizilien (die krassesten szenen sind aber halt nicht darauf,weil man ja nicht immer alles gleich filmen kann unterwegs).<br><br><br><br> Toll war aber einerseits der food-markt in einem stadtteil, voll mit verschiedensten frischen ...

The people from Florence are described as "changeable and moody".<br><br>Mt. Etna is much the same.<br><br>Evolution of the volcano is described as:<br><br>&#8220;destructive periods, collapses, landslides and subsidences alternate with constructive periods (explosive, pyroclastic activity &amp; emission of lava).&#8221;<br><br>Much like us people. J<br><br>Italians ...

... a cave that was created by the lava. (We never did see real lava though). We got back to the city around 5pm. We were suppose to also get wine and olive oil, but since we got lost we never did that. I got back and took a shower. So i'm totally out of cloths. I been wearing the same thing for a few days...including underwear. I should of done the laundry last Friday. I tried to do it in the sink but it was so cold in my apt, that it didn't dry. Places ...

... Twain from the window above (Man I feel like a woman). Gabe's thoughts- Covered in the architectural equivalent of orthodontic braces (hard to see what was going on underneath all that steel). It is still amazing that you can get out and walk all over these historic places. "sessanta vs settanta" (sixty vs seventy- when Italians say these numbers they sound the same to us all the time. When we say them they have no idea what we are talking about) Shi and Gabe