A solo adventure inside a solo adventure. This is my last week of Italian classes. I was going to take lessons for three weeks but if I I did that I would be leaving Sicily without having explored more of the island. Is it Sicily, Taormina, or some combination? I have a hint-I think it…

Oh, how I long for a Seinfeld rerun, the golden girls, Frazier, oh the list goes on and on. I have three channels on my TV that are in English and it is all news. Like a good little newbie I watched Italian TV when I first got here. I was in serious student mode.…

The first time Larry and I vacationed in St Barts was in January of the early 1990’s. We absolutely loved it. We found a little bungalow on a beautiful beach. We rented a Jeep and had a magical vacation. We were so enamored of the island that we returned in May of the same year.…

Siri has either never been to Sicily, or when she was here she didn’t have to navigate on her own. She has told me twice that the train station is a 20 minute walk up hill. The tracks hug the coastline and the station is more than two miles away, downhill and not at all…

I planned to take the bus to Savoca yesterday. It is a very small medieval village about 7 miles outside of Taormina. I desperately wanted to get out of this beautiful little town. It gets extremely crowded on weekends. Thankfully, before I bought my bus ticket, I realized that I had made a visit to…