7/5
Today was a huge day. First we went to Savoca, a beautiful medieval village near the top of Mt Etna . To get there, the bus drove up a narrow road barely wide enough for one car so of course it is a 2 way street with parking on both sides of the road. Cars weaving in and out, amazing there were not more accidents and deaths.
Savoca was beautiful for its medievalness but also famous for having been used for a couple of scenes in the first Godfather movie.The bar below for Godfather fans, was where the famous bar scene took place.
The wedding scene also took place at the local church but a real priest did the service and would only do it outside the consecrated area of the church so the ceremony took place outside the church.
A museum.(look it up)
Today was a huge day. First we went to Savoca, a beautiful medieval village near the top of Mt Etna . To get there, the bus drove up a narrow road barely wide enough for one car so of course it is a 2 way street with parking on both sides of the road. Cars weaving in and out, amazing there were not more accidents and deaths.
Savoca was beautiful for its medievalness but also famous for having been used for a couple of scenes in the first Godfather movie.The bar below for Godfather fans, was where the famous bar scene took place.
The wedding scene also took place at the local church but a real priest did the service and would only do it outside the consecrated area of the church so the ceremony took place outside the church.
And then to Mt Etna, a mother figure, who is constantly burping and emitting gas. This makes her a nice volcano and she does more good than harm. (Mt Vesuvius, by contrast is an explosive volcano who keeps everything inside and then every so often, explodes causing huge damage).
Mt Etna is beautiful from afar with wisps of smoke escaping from her top. Up close we looked at a crater and where lava had been deposited 100 years ago.
On a huge day, we then went to Taormina, a town clinging to the side of Mt Tauro, overlooking the Ionian Sea and the snowy peak of Mt Etna. There was snow on the top of Mt Etna which we did not see up close (Paul happy re this).
Taormina had a very interesting Greek theatre, built against the most spectacular natural background of ocean and blue sky. The Romans then turned it into one of their arenas blocking much of the natural background.
The town of Taorina itself is beautiful with narrow streets, lots of gelatos and great outlooks.
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A museum.(look it up)
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