Palazzo Krataiis
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Mainland ho!
... east coast of the mainland and then northwest to Tropea where we are staying tonight. The roads today were much more like what I was expecting from having been on the moto tour of the Tuscany region of Italy: narrow hairpin turns whilst climbing the hillsides leading to gradual sweepers to entertain you before the next set of hairpin turns. And why is there always a large delivery truck belching diesel fumes headed towards you on the other side ...
From Rome to Sicily
... br> One of our travelers said what they were most struck by was the evidence of the sheer power that the Roman Government would have had to have over the people in their day. The magnitude of the structures, palaces, cathedrals is amazing. The taxation necessary and the means to enforce such reveals a power few Americans can even begin to relate to.
As I walked the ancient streets i.e. the via sancta, and marveled in the engineering fetes of ...
Visited Taormina today
After inadvertently sleeping to 9:00 a.m. today, we jumped out of bed, got ready for our 1/2 day trip to Taormina and went for breakfast. It was good to have some bacon and eggs to start the day. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that I stepped on my reading glasses and broke them so, please forgive my typos ...
Into Sicily
Messina was only a stopping point after Salerno for one night. Messina is a critical city in Sicily, but only for transport. Every bus and train has to pass through here from the Italian mainland. There is not much here other than that. We arrived late and couldn't even eat dinner and left first thing in the morning. ...
Ferry to the mainland
At Messina, with lots of banging and shoving the train was loaded onto a ferry across the straits.
I didn't fancy being down in the bottom of the ferry and joined many of the other travellers on deck as we crossed. There was a massive thunder-storm with lightning silhouetting the mountains as we crossed.
I knew the crossing would disturb my sleep, so didn't properly settle down until we'd landed...
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Amenities
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Restaurant
- Room service
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Business Services
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