FUN-travel: Zambrone/Tropea, Italy to Taormina, Sicily

October 30, 2013 by · Comments Off on FUN-travel: Zambrone/Tropea, Italy to Taormina, Sicily 

Day 38 – Wednesday, October 23 – Zambrone, Italy  to Taormina, Sicily – Full Day – full sun – high 75 – low 59

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Pompeii

What I LIKE

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Pompeii

  • *7:30 – walk down to restaurant –sandwich to go & hard boiled eggs
  • huge resort w/beautiful gardens – bushes, trees & flowers on way to breakfast next to pool & beach
  • 8:30 – ready to go on next adventure
  • **check out & room is free – thank you MAX!
  • program GPS
  • 8:40 – take off
  • ***9:55 – only drove 50 kms & need a break
  • more good cappuccino @ auto/truck stop on A3 – cheapest yet @ $1.30 ea
  • +more tunnels & switchback roads
  • ++11:00 – arrive Villa San Giovanni port for ferry to Messina
  • 11:20 – depart
  • 11:50 – arrive
  • 12:00 – drive off fairy
  • GPS knows where we’re going!
  • 78 degrees w/blue skies!
  • +++arrive toll booth for ticket
  • 10:45 – arrive Taoramina – nice police woman & taxi driver direct us
  • #1:00 – arrive Villa Ducale in Taoramina
  • can see plumes of smoke coming from top of crater
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Pompeii Ceiling

What I DON’T LIKE

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Pompeii

  • 7:00 – Chris wakes me up trying to be quiet – then comes back (as breakfast starts 7:30)
  • *machine cappuccino not good – tastes funny
  • machine coffee not much better
  • no fresh fruit
  • **Max has business & not available to meet
  • GPS takes us the shortest distance
  • ***roads in desperate need of repair
  • washed out in some stretches
  • +more road work – only 1 lane & really slow
  • ++GPS recalculating again! drive in circles & figure it out ourselves
  • +++say we owe them $2 Euro & Chris gives it to them! (you pay at the end)
  • # GPS recalculating again! – road signs (or lack thereof) very confusing or non existent
  • internet & email not working 100% – can’t post
  • Hot Spot is same provider I had in Trieste – my  computer doesn’t like it

FUN-fact – First time we saw a hotel with 5 stars and an L added at end. Means 5 star Luxury.

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Taormina – View From Hotel

 

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