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Sun, 4 Mar 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [1238]
We left Sicily at nine last night on the overnight train from Palermo.
It was a debate right until the last minute whether we would take the
train or the ferry. The train won out more on logistics than on
comfort. Neither the ports of Palermo ... Read more >
Fri, 2 Mar 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [1566]
It sounds so beautiful in Italian - see-cheel-ya. From the Malta ferry, Sicily looks like a pancake floating on the sea; from Catania like a snow-capped breast; and from the car, it is a three-dimensional maze of hills, valleys and winding roads.... Read more >
Wed, 29 Feb 2012 | By austinslacker | Photo Gallery
March 20, 2011
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Wed, 29 Feb 2012 | By austinslacker | Photo Gallery
March 18, 2011 through March 20, 2011
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Wed, 29 Feb 2012 | By austinslacker | Photo Gallery
March 16, 2011 through March 18, 2011
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Mon, 27 Feb 2012 | By austinslacker | Photo Gallery
March 14, 2011 and March 15, 2011
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Mon, 27 Feb 2012 | By austinslacker | Photo Gallery
March 12, 2011 and March 13, 2011
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Sat, 25 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [1629]
It is a strange trip indeed from Sorrento to Sicily. We began by traveling north on the Circumvesuviana line to Naples. Then we boarded the southbound train, first-class was all they had available, to Reggio Calabria on Italy's tippy-toe where, like ... Read more >
Sat, 25 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 24 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [1049]
The road along the Amalfi Coast is so narrow that drivers are
advised to fold in their side mirrors and many cars bear scars on the driver’s
side. The locals speed into the
turns and drift across the center line, scaring the daylights out of us
tourists.... Read more >
Thu, 23 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [1972]
The archeologists who “discovered” it in the 18 th Century can be forgiven for naming it the Temple of Ceres after the Greek goddess of agriculture. Its columns glow like golden sheaves of wheat in the morning sun. More ... Read more >
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [1452]
On the surface Matera seems to be a new (for Italy) town, built in the 1960s. But there is an old town where any building could date back to the 8th Century, or earlier. We had the slippery, narrow streets and steep stairways to ourselves ... Read more >
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [2639]
Driving from Sorrento to Caserta was tedious, tiring and, frankly, disgusting. Once away from the coast the road is a tour through one dirty, potholed town after another, seemingly in circles. Once out of the populated areas the roadside ... Read more >
Sat, 18 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 17 Feb 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [2274]
If you lived in Pompeii, August 24 in the year 79 AD would have been a good day to be out of town. Around noon, Mt. Vesuvius began pouring tons of ash into the sky. It had been rumbling for a few days but no one thought much of it. As the ash piled ... Read more >
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