Sicily

We went to Sicily onna TRAIN and they put the TRAIN onna BOAT. And that was AMAZINGLY COOL. I LOVE TRAINS. And it was amasingly, wonderfully, WARM oh so NICE to not be COLD.

And I swam in the Tyrennian and the Mediteranean Seas and they were warm a clear and beautiful. And I had the most amazing Turkish bath in Palermo, and the most wonderful FOOD omg the FOOD, glorious fish and pizza and oh! you can do pizza with pumpkin instead of tomato and that's so amazing I must figure out how to do it right. And we saw stunning Norman and Baroque cathedrals, and Greek temples. And the ICE CREAM, and oh, the pastries. OM NOMNOMNOM. Food HEAVEN.

And we went to Pompeii and saw all sorts of amazing Roman things. Naples though is just as much a dump as advertised.

http://www.osteriadeivespri.it/ is one of the best places I have ever eaten. Absolutely amazing. And a VAST wine list.

http://www.bagliodellaluna.com/ is a lovely hotel as is http://www.hotelvecchioborgo.eu/ but although http://www.ilprincipehotel.com/eng/ has a nice cocktail bar it couldn't manage hot water...

Local trains in Sicily sucked, being bustituted badly. But busses were good (except for the one to Monreale which didn't exist).