On our way to Catania

Got up early. On our way to the airport. Took the wrong turn. We couldn’t get the GPS to work. Finally it started working. We found our way and we still got there within 20 minutes. Check-in was pretty easy. Had a café and croissant in the airport. Boarded on time. Our flight was on time landed at 10:15 in Catania. Etna Suite driver had our sign with the name Johnson for our transport to Hotel. Walked up two flights of stairs to check in with Alfredo. Walked up another couple flights of stairs to get to our room. Fortunately, they brought our luggage up to our room. A nice, two bedroom apartment. Not much of a kitchen but spacious. Each room has a little balcony that looks over the backs of all the restaurants with piles of garbage and dirty rooftops. A little bit of a contrast from Umbria! Walked downstairs, which brought us right out to the main street. Across the street is the Bellini Gardens. We walked up there took a few photos. Then we decided to find a place to eat. Walked over to a restaurant named Fud! It was very trendy. All the signs on the walls were plays on words. We ordered Apperal spritz which were molto grande! We ordered Arancini, which wasn’t what we expected. They were red inside, rather than the familiar creamy white inside. We shared a plate of buffalo hamburger with a mozzarella topping. It had a little side portion of mixed peppers and marinated onions with two little scoops of mayonnaise and barbecue sauce. The fries were roasted potato wedges. We then had the crema d limon verdello. Which was a circular lemon tart with a soft and creamy marshmallow meringue like like topping. The lemon part was on the frozen side. In a graham cracker crust. It was delicious. walked around the area which was not very clean. Piles of trash bags everywhere you looked. The pigeons were having a feast everywhere. Stopped and got a bottle of water to bring up to the room. Relaxed and then all hell broke loose when Cristi found out that her, AOL and Facebook were hacked! she had to contact AOL finally was on the phone for over an hour with them. Finally retrieved her email. We went to sleep around 11 o’clock.Read more