O/T FAO Norton

[WOODLANDSWOLF]

Watcha mate! Whereabouts in Sicily are you? Back in the seventies I spent 5 weeks in Sicily in a port city called Gela. Not the greatest place, I was working at a refinery, but what with the food, wine and all the history, incredible. All on an expense account as well, those were the days!

[nortonwolf]

Hi Woody, We’re travelling around, doing three stopovers over a week as a taster, not been before. Flew into Palermo, made our way to Cefalu for a few nights, on to Taormina and today heading back to Palermo for two days. Absolutely loving it, relatively quiet in both resorts as it’s early season , lots of history, great food. I feel like I could happily spend several months here doing the mountain towns and villages and around the coast, you were lucky to work here!

[WOODLANDSWOLF]

Glad you're having a good time mate. Make sure you give the sea food a hammering! When I was here I took the train each weekend on day trips to visit local hill top town/villages. Very quiet in those days, very special.

Enjoy the rest of your vacation.

[Wolfiebill]

Hi Norton,

We were there approx 3 years ago. We did 2 cities (Taormina and Syracuse). Thoroughly enjoyed both the area / sites and the food. We would certainly go back. We climbed Etna (or part of it) - certainly wouldn't do that again - GRUELLING !!

[nortonwolf]

Hi Norton,

We were there approx 3 years ago. We did 2 cities (Taormina and Syracuse). Thoroughly enjoyed both the area / sites and the food. We would certainly go back. We climbed Etna (or part of it) - certainly wouldn't do that again - GRUELLING !!

We didn't do the Etna trip as we only had two days in Taormina, Syracuse sounds good too... must go back!