Locanda Scirocco Castellammare del Golfo
Corso Garibaldi 117 Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, 91014, Italy
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Out of the cities: The reason to visit Sicily
The last few nights in Sicily were spent in a much nicer hotel in a much smaller town called Castellammare del Golfo, or "Sea Castle on the Gulf". As soon as we were picked up by our bus driver from our Palermo hotel, things started looking up. His name was Maurizio, and took the best bus driver ever prize by far. Our first day out of Palermo …
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... Day in Sicily is St. Joseph's Day. Joseph was a pancake seller when the housing market crashed so pancakes are the food choice for Father's Day. Driving in Italy is quite the experience. Signage is poor. The drivers never mind the speed limit, never signal lane changes or turns, and have no patience. I had gotten driving directions from the hotel in advance to make our trip from the airport easy. The first step was take A-19 A-20. At the rental car desk we ...
Very mixed city....
... many different nations is very apparent with over a hundred and fifty churches in a 20-block radius.
We were pleasantly surprised by our B&B / hostel for the night (www.aivicere.com). Well equipped, clean and pretty much in centre of the old town.
We spent the day exploring the city's sights, sounds and markets for the day. ...
Go West life is peaceful there
... quickly locked the doors and we were all thinking uh oh where are we??? After squeezing through some extremely tight cobbled streets (Jabula's mirrors even had to be tucked in) we noticed that the streets got a bit cleaner and the characters dwindled in numbers and then the hotels started appearing - right we must have entered from the "******" side of town, it was actually quite nice now.
We found a park and our little hostel (which is ...
City among clouds.
Erice it was the first point of our trip. Wonderful small city almost everyday covered by clouds. It's located on top of Mount Erice, at around 750m above sea level, overlooking the city of Trapani, the low western coast towards Marsala, the dramatic Punta del Saraceno and Capo san Vito to the north-east, and the Aegadian Islands on ...


