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Ha, fooled ya, one last blog, as Roma is so special 👍 Greetings one last time from beautiful Roma! Fantastic weather here again, sunny and mid 60’s.😎 TGC says tie on those walking shoes one last time😅 We’ve got more to see in the Eternal City of Roma! On to the subway we go forContinue reading “3/7/2025 Rome, Italy and the end of the blog!”

Greetings from beautiful and sunny Rome. Yes, it’s 65 degrees and the shorts are back😎 Two day drive from Palermo to Rome with an overnight stay in beautiful Pizzo, Italy. Same story with the ferry crossing from Sicily into Italy. We got lost, (signage on the freeway was terrible), a couple of older Italian menContinue reading “3/6/2025 Rome, Italy”

Greetings from beautiful but cloudy 65 degree Palermo, Sicily! TGC says one more walking tour 😬 so here we go! Walking along the waterfront, it’s 45 minutes to the first stop says TGC! Ok, let’s move inland through the alleys First stop, Teatro Massimo. Up the hill to the next stop, Capo Street Market. MuchContinue reading “3/2/2025 Palermo, Sicily”

Greetings from beautiful, sunny and 65 degree Palermo, Sicily! We made the short two hour drive from Trapani to Palermo without any major problems. Of course the roads were “under construction”, but we even managed to navigate to our Airbnb without any major issues. We had an issue with the Airbnb we had reserved monthsContinue reading “3/01/2025 Palermo, Sicily”

Greetings from beautiful, but a little cloudy and rainy, 60 degrees Trapani, Sicily! Yes, the Sicilians are freezing! Where the heck is Trapani you might be asking? Well it’s on the far western coast of Sicily. Easy three hour drive across Sicily to Trapani, and the scenery was spectacular! The scenery was unbelievably beautiful! EverythingContinue reading “2/26/2025 Trapani, Sicily”

Greetings from beautiful and sunny, 60 degree Agrigento, Sicily! We successfully navigated through the streets of Catania, with only minor stress attacks 😬 and made our way to the freeway that will take us across Sicily to our next adventure location, Agrigento! We had an easy two hour drive across Sicily to reach our newContinue reading “2/25/2025 Agrigento, Sicily”

Wow! This is Mt. Etna three nights ago! Unfortunately, our wet weather is sticking with us and with our desire to not drive in Catania we were unable to visit Siracusa and Taormina. (We visited Taormina in 2013.) The public transport was too Sicilian for us this late in the adventure. So, we spent aContinue reading “2/22/2025 Catania, Sicily”

Greetings from beautiful, but wet and a little chilly 58 degrees, Catania, Sicily. Yes, we have returned to Sicily! We visited here in 2013, and were both intrigued and curious about Sicily so we decided to return🫣 I know you’re thinking, where the heck is Catania, Sicily?🤔 A very easy two hour drive from PaolaContinue reading “2/21/2025 Catania, Sicily”

Greetings from beautiful and partly sunny Paola, Italy. Yes, we’ve made it to the top of the toe of Italy. Paola is a smallish town, 16,000 residents on the Tyrrhenian Sea (part of the Mediterranean Sea). It’s a vey isolated and mountainous region, very high unemployment and very little opportunities for folks. We’re just hereContinue reading “2/17/2025 Paola, Italy”

Greetings from beautiful and sunny, a warm 65 degrees Lecce, Italy, known as the Florence of southern Italy. We made the easy drive (if driving in Italy is ever easy) to Lecce from Bari. We are staying in the Old town section of Lecce and got hopelessly lost driving in to the old city, soContinue reading “2/15/2025 Lecce, Italy”