Villa Mater Hotel Catania
Via Vittorio Bottego, 10 Catania, Sicily, 95125, Italy
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La Dolce Vita
... his Mercedes stretch limo!! Not such a posh vehicle it was 20 years old and there was not an undented panel, but he got us there safely another group of 6 in a mini van had to stop half way as it had over heated!
Taormina was very quiet when we first got there and we walked along the main street to the viewing platform then slowly back and up to the Greco Roman Theatre that is the jewel in it's crown.
The shops along the way were all ...
Jewel of An Island
... We circled Mt Etna as it stuck up above the clouds.
We got to the airport and picked up our rental car. It took us a bit to get out of the parking lot (we went around in the same circle 3 times!). There was a cop standing in the same spot who after the second come-around was already smiling…by the third time he was in a full out belly laugh. Our GPS guys was quite confused so I took a risk and figured he’d just have ...
The Sicilian Fly-By and Swiss Fighter Intercept
... by a Swiss Fighter". Sure enough, out of the sun comes a fighter jet and slowly pulls forward and closer to us. The kids waived, the pilot waived back and then banked hard left and dove for the clouds. We have video....but still have to get the video off the tape & onto the computers....our "camcorder" has not been updated even as we have continued to update our ...
Pompei to the boot
... people speak a mixture of Italian and English and probably less English than in Italy itself. We’re told the Sicilian mafia are a lot more professional than the Italian mafia particularly in Naples who have no scruples – this made us feel a lot better of course.
In Naples, the mafioso run the garbage collection and disposal for the city. You would never believe the piles of rubbish and bags of household rubbish that litter the streets, ...
The Lady
October 22 - 25 2011
Stayed - Abaco Sicilia B & B
Sicily Catania
Weather - Good blue sky, then very cloudy overcast and rain - of course
Remember booking the accommodation here was Tom’s duty for a change, not sure where he pulled this place from but turns out to be abfab. A bit hard to find not that well signed and need to go up several floors of a private residential building but once inside ...



