Mt Etna from our B&B

Across the Straits of Messina to Sicily

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April 6th 2013
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 ... read more

Europe » Italy » Sicily » Giardini Naxos

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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