Seeing as the forecast is blah here in Belgium for the next.. forever.. I might as well start recounting my sunny days in Sicily last month. Maybe the Vitamin D will seep thru the screen and tint my cheeks again :)
Why Sicily you might ask? Well, we've been to Italy 5 times already and love everything about it: the food, warmth (both in the weather and the people), the colors, the sea.. We really wanted to take my mom and the kids to Rome for their first time and decided we'd throw in a new Italian adventure for the hubs and I as bonus. I'd heard great things about Sicily and it took quite some time to narrow down where in fact we wanted to go - It's a big island, and while 6 days is a good amount of time to see it "All" at break-neck speed, we decided to slow it down this trip and just focus on 2 areas: the old resort town of Taormina and Greek-ruin filled Siracusa. Sicily also has more Greek ruins than anywhere outside of Greece, which is cool.. OH, and there's an active volcano (Mt Etna).. you may have heard of it :)
first stop: Taormina, which was often on the "Grand Tour" of the privledged scholarly traveler in the 1800's. It's perch overlooking the Mediterrean is outstanding, with Mt Etna spewing in the distance. But really, the first admirers were Greek, who settled there in 900 BC and built an amphitheater with the most incredible view!
Our first day in Taormina...
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