The Muse of Taormina Taormina! Breathtaking crazy cliffs rising from the Ionia Sea. Mount Etna's flanks visible in the background. View from our Taormina...
The good and the ugly, Catania, Sicily Catania is gritty and big, an ancient seaport and the second largest city in Sicily. Being on a budget we arrived with the locals at the main...
Trieste and Koper – changing tide Our visit to Koper was short and sweet. We could have made a more direct path to Maribor but choose to travel through Trieste, in north-eastern Italy...
Cinque Terre: Five seaside villages linked by an ancient hiking path Let me get this straight. Coming to the Cinque Terre was never my idea. I'm putting this solely at my sister’s feet. A few years ago she told me...
Genoa, Italy: A book is born We enjoyed our leisurely pace in our overnight ferry from Split, Croatia to Ancona, Italy. But that pace was about to go into hyper-drive. We arrived...
Split, Croatia – a stroll into the past We arrived in Split, Croatia via high-speed catamaran from Korčula. We had a whole day before our overnight ferry to Italy, so we decided to visit...