Sicily in late February early March seemed to offer a lot: some of the best archaeological sites in Europe, Mt Etna, pleasant warm weather, off-season prices and few tourists! I’d also heard that Seniors are well treated in Sicily getting discounts at historical sites. So did Sicily lived up to this billing? Well the answer is […]
See Japan in three days! Well of course you can’t, but the three days I spent exploring the Tokyo area and the foothills of Mount Fuji provided me with a flavour of Japan and whetted my appetite for future, longer visits. At the start of my Round the World trip, I wanted to break up […]
Just a few miles south of Miami’s busy centre, you can follow a stream as it winds through acres of waterfalls hedged by tropical palms, orchids and other lush foliage. That stream is a feature in the 83 acre Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden which was established in 1938 on the edge of Bay Biscayne by David Fairchild, the botanist and […]
Amsterdam conjures up for many people an image of canals, cycles, slightly dodgy coffee shops and the red light district. These are all part of the Amsterdam scene, but of course there is much more to the capital city of the Netherlands. I have always enjoyed my visits to Amsterdam. Whatever the time of year, I’ve always found it to be a vibrant […]
To many people of my age, San Francisco conjures up images of hippies, flower power and the Summer of Love centred around the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood of the city. Well obviously much has changed since the 1960s, but I still find San Francisco has a vibrancy and liberal, forward-looking atmosphere that I’ve not found in other […]
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Sicily Touring Holiday – Palermo and North Coast
Palermo is a strange contrast – a fairly shabby, traffic-infested city with beautiful historical sites and buildings. It is well worth at least a day’s exploration before moving on. As mentioned in my previous post, Getting There and Driving Around, having driven in to Palermo centre from the airport, I decided to leave my car in the […]