By this time, we have stayed in 4 different Sicilian towns and visited several others and felt like we had a great feeling for Sicily, but to really say we have seen Sicily, we need to see the capitol. So, in our farewell to Sicily planned 8 days in the heart of the big city…
Tag: Sicily
Trapani, Sicily
After our fantastic evening in Agrigento at the Valley of the Temples, we still had the rental car for another day to get to the other side of Sicily. Having a car enables us to find some off the beaten path things to do and M found us a good one. We went to Il…
Sunset in the Valley of the Temples. Agrigento, Sicily, Italy
We really prefer trains or buses for budget and carbon footprint reasons but sometimes they aren’t convenient to what we want to see. The Southern part of Sicily doesn’t have good transportation but it does have a lot of ancient Greek and Roman ruins that we really wanted to see. So we ended up renting…
Syracuse, Sicily, Italy
We just spent 4 days in an airBnB right in the old town of Syracuse. It was actually on the island of Ortigia which is where the pedestrian zone old town is. 2 bridges connect it to the mainland which is where the ancient ancient part of the city was. Syracuse used to be a…
Catania, Sicily, Italy
We have made it to Sicily! We took a train and ferry from Calabria and I mean we took a train onto the ferry. It was pretty cool. It was like a regular ferry boat but had no cars. Only trains. Our train split in half and the train cars that were going to North…