Showing posts with label Sicily. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sicily. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Giardini-Naxos

                                                                                Gattito in the sunshine...
I'm testing to see if I can post from my laptop...I think the problem was iPad/Blogspot ???
                           
glass of wine in Giardini-Naxos

Mt. Etna seen through the Greek amphitheater


Greek Amphitheater, with Mt. Etna in the background

We're home (2 AM this morning) but our suitcases aren't...!!!! Keep your fingers crossed...

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Where Do Lost Posts Go?

This is my FOURTH post...where the others have gone, who knows? We met up with our group briefly today...they are all jet-lagged, while we are much refreshed after 4 days in Taormina, a lovely hillside town which has been welcoming travelers for hundreds of years...a lot of them with big, beautiful yachts.  We left our yacht at home, but thoroughly enjoyed the beauty and ambiance of our hotel, Villa Belvedere


 We ate and drank excellent Sicilian food and wine, walked the charming (but crowded) steep streets, returned to our hotel to read by the pool and nap. One day Dave climbed 600 steps up to a church carved out of rock