Palermo Travel Blogs

Today started early and after the continued festivities that were topped off by 3 rounds of fireworks beginning at 12:15 am and held at 15 minute intervals, not much sleep was to be had. We were up by 6:15. Antonio was good enough to take us and our luggage to the train station. It’s not too far …

We'll take a 12 hour night train from Rome on August 4th, then wake up in Sicily! We never have to change trains because the train will be seamlessly ferried across the water while we sleep. How cool is that!

great place wonderful tradition allot of horns!! and good seafood!!

I must start this story from the end as it will explain what has been missing from this blog. I told you in the beginning that I was making this journey as a celebration of my mother's mother's family and their immigration from Palermo to the United States of America 100 years ago. I have always be…

Smooth and good flight across the Atlantic to green Amsterdam, perfect connection to Milan with exciting tantalizing views of Switzerland and the snowy alps! Just before boarding a tired Alitalia MD-80 to Palermo, asked the agent to check on Judge's flight, and said he (got the much earlier-than-ti…

Palermo Sicily to Taormina Sicily: 5/14/08               Our second day in Palermo started off with a nice breakfast at the hotel which was included in the price of the room. There we sat on the top floor with an excellent view of t…

It will take me ages to re-count what has happened to me since I last wrote, but something has to be said for the amazingness of new-found friends!  I am both happy and sad at the same time, because the fellow with whom I've been working for the past three weeks is leaving to a new job, and I …

Gran ciudad, caótica en todos los sentidos, con mucho que ver: la mezquita arabo-normanda de San Giovanni degli Eremiti, la catedral, la Capilla Palatina del Palacio Normando, la plaza Pretoria y la plaza de Quattro Canti donde convergen las dos vías principales de la ciudad: …

Travelled to Milano to see some mates, then down to Sicilia for a good ol roadtrip with my cousins. Epic times in a crazy land and some of the best food i've ever gormandised...La vita e bella!

Bottom to top, here is a blog about my trip to Italy. Check out this blog to read about my travels to Palermo, Catania, Naples, Pompei, Florence, Pisa, Cinque Terre, Venice, and Rome.

I see that the map shows a line directly to Palermo from Rome, but I actually took the train, so as you can imagine we didn't go over any water haha. More photos and hopefully entries coming later tonight.

Holiday on Sicily with an appartment in Céfalu and a rented car

A trip to Sicily. Palermo, Noto, Cefalu`, Siracusa (city older than Rome !), Valley of the temples (Agrigento) hosting the best preserved Greek tempels in the world.

Unfortunately it was either overcast or raining heavily most of the day that we were in Palermo.  The port was close enough to walk into town on our own, though we had to turn around several times and found it difficult to find places on the map.  We visited the Galleria d'Arte Moderna mo…

In this photo you see the apse of  the cathedral of Palermo.  Palermo is my favorite city in Sicily and so I've traveled there too many times to count.  The day I took this photo it was a beautifully clear day and honestly most days are like this in the Spring through Summer down the…