Don Creole B&B

A view of my bed and breakfast in Catania. Shockingly enough, the taxi ride to the airport cost more than my one night stay. And the airport is like 10 minutes away. Sheesh. Of course, they jack up the price because it's "Ferie" (August holiday).

Sicily: the good, the bad, and the ugly (Part Two)

August 19th 2008
Domenica (Sunday) 17 Agosto When I awoke on Sunday morning, I went to the kitchen, rested and refreshed, to find only Nonna- no aunt or uncle (Tonietta and Franco). She spent some talking with me, or at me, rather, as I could not understand one out of fifty words she spoke. Despite the fact that she punctuated her paragraph long sentences with "Capisce?", I learned quickly that it didn't matter ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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