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Posts on ‘August 8th, 2011’

Nicolosi and Messina

We spent the first two nights at a B&B in Nicolosi called Il Sotto de Volcano. It got a great rating in TripAdvisor. Our rating will downgrade it a little. A very enthusiastic and energetic owner, who came to fetch us when we couldn’t find the place and couldn’t have been more helpful. It was […]

Mount Etna

We flew in to Sicily and were greeted by a fantastic view of Mount Etna from the plane, still spouting copious amounts of smoke from its most recent eruption within the previous week. The following morning, we drove from our B&B in Nicolosi up the side of Mount Etna and took a cable car up […]