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We love Sicily having been coaxed there for a holiday a few years back by the beauty of it on the Montalbano mysteries. To date we have only done the eastern coast and so we were keen to visit the capital Palermo in the North West. It was an easy escape from the boat today …
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So the holiday is over for another year. Time has really gone quickly and we have packed an awful lot into our two weeks and had a great time. Here’s the good, the bad and the ugly. What I’ll miss The barque architecture – the places we visited to the south of the island were …
Today is our last day in Sicily. Boy has it gone quickly. It was back on the train again today and once more in search of Inspector Montalbano. This time it was to Scicli which is used for other parts of the fictional Vigata including the police station (shown above). It’s odd seeing places from …
Decided to have a more relaxing day today after the couple of train journeys we have taken over the last two days. In the morning we went back into the island part of Siracusa – Ortiga – and made our way to the market. It was an odd mix of amazing fresh fish and vegetable …
We’re obviously getting the taste for local train travel as we were on the same train as yesterday this morning. This time we were taking a shorter trip to the town of Noto. As yesterday there was a walk from the station to the interesting part of the town and once again there were no …
Before you travel to a new place you have to make certain assumptions as to what you’ll need. So it was this time when we hired a car for the whole two week period. To date we have used it only twice. Once to get from the airport to the first hotel and the second …
When we first arrived here a couple of days ago one of the first places we made it to was the castle right at the end of the island. This being Italy we had missed the tiny window of time when it was actually open but did happen to notice that it was open today …
There are several distinct areas to Siracusa: Ortiga, the tiny island joined to the main island by a bridge, the modern and unintersting town and the archological area where we went today. The main attraction on the site is the huge Greek theatre. Unlike the one we saw in Taormina this one is more complete …
Today was our last full day in Taormina and I was really sorry to be leaving as it is a lovely place. The hotel was superb and really well located for the town which was just a short walk away. We spent our final morning walking through the main street and down, once again, into …
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