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Clodia is old
Posted in Sicily Travel
Clodia was the name of the ferry who brought me from Cagliari to Napoli with a delay of 25 hours. Clodia has been beautifull probably in her youth over 50 years agobut was too big and old now for the few passengers.Only the garage fully loaded with trucks was important for her.To reach Clodia as pedistrian you hald to walk under a terrible sun and avoid the truck traffick that was every where
Malta impression
Posted in Sicily Travel
Took a hop on hop of bus the northern route what took 3 hours without hopping of.Went to Valletta in the afternoon.Went yesterday in the morning to the old capital Mdina and in the afternoon again VallettaImpression of Malta Their unknown wine is very good and unbelievable cheap They threat beer as in England They drive on the leftside of the road but since everybody is doing it its no proble
Saved by an old lady
Posted in Sicily Travel
Saturday evening I arrived in Pozzallo. 250 km from Palermo 12 hours incl 6 hours waiting at empty stations and 4 trains.Pozzallo station is small empty and far from the village. I asked an old lady who arrived also by train if she knew my hotel Villa Margherita. She did not. If there were any taxis .Not at the station.Than she said something about machina and invited me in her olddirty car. Th
Italy Smart country
Posted in Sicily Travel
I never saw so may Smart cars in any European country than in Italy.Supposing there are also a lot of them on the mainland of Italy for sure on the islands Sardinia and Sicily it s a lot.The Italians say it s for easy parking. But why only Italy sees this as a soltution Other countries solve the problem by using bigger cars and building more parking lots.Had dinner yesterday in Caffe del Duomo. A
Catania War Cemetry
Posted in Sicily Travel
Was hoping that my eye would have recovered overnight. Unfortunately it had not so I had to cancel the excursion up Mount Etna and play hunt the hospital instead. There are lots and you have to have the right one oh and follow the Italian instructions to get there. Anyway after a morning of standing in queues I realised that I was more bored than in pain so we continued with our journey. To ma
Day 22 A day trip to Sicily
Posted in Sicily Travel
Today has been a long and tiring day. Up at 4 am but awake at 2.30 am to leave at 5 am to get the 7 am catamaran to Sicily for our day trip.We managed to get a good parking spot just outside the sea terminal gates so no fees to pay. The trip was Sicily was about 90 minutes and the Med was as smooth as can be. We had a couple of cups of coffee and breakfast on board. This was a much bigger vessel
The Mystery of the Breadboard or Losing Things when You Travel
Posted in Sicily Travel
A couple of weeks ago we were trundling along the Puglia coast and decided to pull up by the sea for lunch. And that was the last time either of us saw the cutting board we are both of the preslice bread age and therefore tend to call them all ldquobreadboardsrdquo. It was a good breadboard actually it was one of those square things with a short handle you use to take pizzas out of the ov
And So To Sicilia
Posted in Sicily Travel
Only those who have worked for a long time in one of Charlie's buildings and there may be only one reader of this blog who still does will appreciate why I almost wanted to go to the town of Randazzo and have a look just to see whether his origins suggest some answers for the way he operates. It is not just old Charlie. We have a town called Nicolosi of Guiseppe fame Sciacca as in Con and