Florence, Florence, oh how I’ve neglected you over these years… The last few trips I have made to Italia have not included Florence and I can’t remember why…It’s so close to Rome, less than two hours by train. Travelling with…
Our little Sicilian home
Driving from Siracusa to a holiday apartment in Calatabiano near Giardini Naxos was easy with the Tom Tom. The apartment, which the lovely Maria showed us around before leaving us to it, was a near-new construction and very well appointed…
Love Lipari – a day of adventure
Zorba and I love the little island life. Lipari is the biggest of the Aeolian Islands off Sicily’s north-west coast. We booked into the very comfortable yet affordable Diana Brown B&B at 50 euro per night, initially for two nights. …
On the road to Siracusa
Upon checking out of the very comfortable B&B Baglio in Mondello, the friendly Giovanni behind the counter asked us where we were going next. “Siracusa,” I replied, expecting a reaction of ‘che bella’ or something along those lines from him. …
Fabulous Favignana
From Palermo, a 2.5 hour train trip on a near empty and quite decent train took us to Trapani. From Trapani train station we WALKED, carrying 21.5kg on my back and probably about 7kg on my front, about 1km to…