Travel Day to Naples

We woke up with the intention to go to Mt. Etna early…but someone slept in. Gabe has gotten up to watch the sunrise the past 2 morning and then he goes back to sleep. Just as we were stepping outside to leave it started to rain. We checked the live cameras on the mountain and they looked like rain. We decided to drive there anyway to at least get to the base. You can drive up to 2500 meters and then the cable car will take you to 8000. There are also lots of easy hikes to craters. We really wanted to do this. But as we got closer to the mountain the rain got worse and we texted our friend who lives there and she said today was not a good day. As we pulled off the highway to turn around, there was a McDonalds. So we stopped for an early lunch. We drove back towards Taormina and decided to drive up the mountain to a town that’s even higher than Taormina. It’s called Castlemola. We you look at it from the water you are like “who said lets go build a town way up there ??” We got a delicious granita. Sicily is more famous for their granita than gelato. It’s water based and not milk based like gelato. And its a little thinner consistency. I like it better than gelato. Also because they are all fruit flavors and not things like Nutella or Oreo. Since its going to rain all day we have decided to pack up and go ahead and start our drive to Naples. It’s about 7 hours so we want to split it up. I did a good purge of kitchen/cooking supplies because we aren’t going to be in another apartment until the last 2 days of our trip. Which doesn’t sound very fun. Lots of eating out. Gabe had bought us 6 bunches of Bietola so we could have it with our dinner tonight. Since we are leaving I cooked it and we had a snack before we left. We packed the car and got on the road. We are going to sleep in Tropea tonight.Read more