Bongiorno! June 2019. Taormina, Sicily, Italy. Street artist, and the result drawing at Taormina's old town square. I was 11 years 6mo.
Taormina in Sicily, Italy
VIEWS, ISOLA BELLA, PARK and GARDEN
• Narrow sand connects beach to Isola Bella island, a nature reserve
• Breakfast/dinner restaurant on the top floor, good
• My fifth trip to Italy, the nation of pretty reasonable eatables!
• Breakfast setup and ambient music were excellent
• Cheese, meats, fruits, bacon, eggs, croissants, sweets, cold milk
• My team: Sicilian espressos, hot milk. Breakfast proseccos, Salute!
• Four breakfasts and two dinners in this brave hotel restaurant
• Ionian Sea from Hotel Villa Carlotta's top floor restaurant
June 2019
Taormina Park and Garden.
• Ancient cemeterial area at Pirandello Road
Taormina Pots and Balconies
SICILIAN HILLTOP TOWN
• Hot, I felt half somewhere, half nowhere, in between
Thinking Italy - Thinking Taormina
BEEN TO SICILY
- Why, or why not, that's the question
- But what difference at this point does it make
INFO
Taormina, Sicily, Italy
• Hilltop town, east coast of Sicily near Mount Etna
• Tourist destination over 100 years
• Isola Bella Beach/Island on Ionian Sea
• Ancient theatre, Teatro Antico di Taormina, in use
• Park and botanical garden, over 100 years old
• Part of Messina Province; elevation 204m; population 10000
• Movie The Godfather (1972) Vito Corleone, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino
• Movie The Big Blue (1988) about free diving, Jean Reno, Jean-Marc Barr
• 2017 G7 Summit
Taormina Street Artist
OLD TOWN SQUARE
• Everything starts with a dot, as Kandinsky said
Ancient Theater of Taormina
MOUNT ETNA, MEET MY YODA, PIZZAS
• Mount Etna 3320m (left) was awaken
• My collection of active volcanoes:
..Mount Ruapehu, Mount Agung, Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna
• Path to Isola Bella Beach
• Revolving oven in pizza factory
• Pizza Umbra with duck top, near old town square
• Pizza Mount Etna, Pizza Italia, Pizza Umbra
Steps between
Isola Bella
and hilltop.
Flights and Hotel
TRIP to TAORMINA in SICILY, ITALY
What you know,
you know.
What you don't,
you don't.
That's knowledge, Mojito knowledge.
Cool like that pool, but not enough cool,
for Mojito,
Virgin Mojito.
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• Helsinki - Copenhagen - Sicily/Catania - Amsterdam - Helsinki
Catania Fontanarossa Airport
• Aspire Lounge offered unique, rock-bottom experience
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