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Eat-drink-read-sleep-swim. Repeat.
... settled into a lovely eat-drink-read-sleep-swim, eat-drink-read-sleep-swim, pattern that lasted from 11am until 4pm. Eventually we decided it was time to say good-bye to our beach day, and we headed for the bus stop and back home to the B&B. Earlier in the week we had chosen our last-night-in-Lipari restaurant: l’Anfora. This was our fanciest dinner of the trip, and we had the whole outside seating area to ourselves. Everyone else eating there was a ...
Pyrotechnics!
... fit?” I gave an enthusiastic “Si!”; he then asked with twinkling eyes, “Are you sufficiently motivated?” To which I gave an enthusiastic “Yes!” which made him laugh. I would later find out how important that motivation would be. There were two folks in the group wearing what he called “basket shoes” which confused me until Rob decoded … he meant “basketball shoes”; they were wearing ...
Close Encounters of the Volcanic Kind
... Feeling amply warned about the risks of intoxication, we continued on. The entrance fee was 3 euros each and we began our 800 meter ascent to the crater. The terrain began steep, slippery, shifting volcanic sand which was a bit difficult to navigate, and I was dearly missing my walking sticks (Carrie, I cannot believe that I forgot them!) After about 600 meters, the terrain changed abruptly to rock. There was evidence of a stone and ...
Saints, Soccer, and Sweets
... what it was at the time; the train gives a disconcerting sideways shift as it departs land for the ferry and again when it departs the ferry for land. We got up at 6:15 to change and reassemble our luggage. The conductor knocked on our door at 6:30 while delivering a loud "Milazzo proxima!" and breakfast (a juicebox and a packet of sugary bread.) We debarked exactly on time at 6:45. The bus ticket office was closed; rather than waiting for it to open we decided to splurge on a ...
The most active volcano in the world
The island is superb with black volcano sand beaches, the most active volcano in the world, fishing boats perched at the water's edge and a small population of 400 people.
Lots of history here and my guide advised that most of the people left in the 1950's when a butterfly pest came to the island destroyed most ...
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