Sicily

Today was a big travel day as we left the Puglia region and followed the coastline of the Ionean Sea and the Adriatic Ocean through the south of Italy and down to Villa San Giovanni. Here we caught a ferry across the Strait of Messina to Messina in Sicily. From there, we travelled down to spectacular Taormina.

Taormina is below Mt Etna, an active volcano and it was smoking gently above us. Spectacular.

Taormina has a Greek and Roman amphitheatre that dates back to 3B.C. It is still used today and when we were there, it was being set up for the opera season that runs until September.

Its old town has a great shopping street with lots of narrow alleyways and hidden restaurants.

We then went to our hotel and our room had views of the beach and Mt. Etna.Read more