Todays gelato flavours - GMB - Ice something?(can't remember the name but it was pink and sweet) GLB - Mandarino OK,the location of the Best Western Hotel we booked, is a little outside of Siracusa city, but it is certainly quiet and we both had another greats nights sleep in the biggest King size bed we have ever had the pleasure to sleep in. The hotel is modern with excellent furnishings and a shower that actually works well. ! The breakfast was also great with all the usual cereals,croissants,juices,fruit yogurt and also scrambled eggs and bacon,which was a bonus.We topped up and found we didn't need a formal lunch stop during the day so good was the breakfast. Without the benefit of a newspaper to read over breakfast we played guess the nation of the varied ... read more

Todays gelato flavour - GMB and GLB :Amarano(Cherry)Delicious with real pieces of cherries in it What an absolute cracker of a day dawned this morning and although our room faces east the sun took a while to rise enough to shine brightly into the room. There was still a haze out to sea so the islands off the coast which include Vulcano,an active volcanoe on which people live and you can also stay at various hotels.However overhead was a beautifully fine sky,and it looks like today will be the best one weather wise that we have had since arriving last week in Italy. Showering looked like it was going to be a challenge this morning so Gretchen went first to suss how best to handle it.She emerged suggesting I would have fun in there but not ... read more

Gelato flavour of the day : No time for one after escaping the trials of the streets of Napoli ! Victoria GPS doesn't know just how close she came to being ripped out from the dashboard and thrown onto the streets of Naples with all the other rubbish. Of course she will have the defence that a message comes up on the screen before the guidance starts that the system should not be used solely as a system to get you from point A to B. We should have gone with the Google map we looked at last night as it took us back north for a short distance and then onto a ring road around the north of Naples and onto a toll road and south. However the BBA V2 has a condition of avoiding ... read more

Gelato flavour of the day: Again N/A, didn’t pass a Gelateria, damn, tomorrow will be different! We had a mission planned for the day and that was to become self sufficient for breakfast and evening meals. To do this we needed to buy our microwave and toaster and that was going to take locating a shopping mall and one of the big supermercados, like a Warehouse but with groceries etc. After a very good hotel breakfast (man the warm croissants are getting a hiding in the mornings!)we set off downtown to check out what was there in the way of shopping not really expecting to find what we needed. In our one hour walk we did find billboards advertising a mall. So we jotted down the email address and came back to the hotel to suss ... read more

Gelato Flavour of the day: Tiramasu (GMB) and Chocolate (GLB) The day dawned with a little blue sky and there was going to be a good chance that our time in St Peters Square and we hear the Pope’s Easter message, to be delivered at noon, would be under sunny conditions. The croissants were late arriving and some of the other guests at the B&B couldn’t wait as they wanted to ensure a good position in the crowd for the big event. We thought breakfast, as it was,was just as important and so we hung on for the croissants to arrive and with full tummies we set off o the nearby Metro and onto the station near the Vatican. The subway platform at Termini station, which is the main railway station for the aboveground rail system ... read more