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Hector ist der Größte! und andere Reisen…
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Month: June 2019
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So. Everybody tells me, Siracusa is soooo beautiful! Well… the first impression is at least ambivalent. As with most things in life, it seems to be a matter of timing. Huge parts of Ortigia, the baroque peninsula of the city, must have been fabulous around 1705, when the buildings were brand-new. Nowadays it rather looks…
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Our first week has been filled with 1.837,7 km (Hector, driving), 900m altitude difference (Stromboli, outbreaking) and overall 9h on ferrys and boats. Now we decide to take it slow and stay one more day at Paradise Camping / Taormina. Martina is keen on hiking up to mountain villages and crash traditional Italian weddings, while…
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The roadmap has been set for all highlights of the East coast with the first stop being Taormina. Close enough (at Letojanni), we take over one of the beach spots at Paradise Camping, including blue skys, empty beaches and a mostly regular bus service to Taormina downtown. It feels like beach hours are rare these…
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…kann Spuren von geschlossener Asphaltdecke enthalten. Muss aber nicht… Presenting today’s roads: after one direction had been blocked already, there was not much of a choice, so we made our way through rough parts. …and this is what happens when bumping into a group of young Dutchmen. No complaints. Phönix-Statue in Agrigento. Paar mittleren Alters…
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We rinse off the black ashes from our volcano hike and debate happily over breakfast: How can the Sicilia holidays possibly turn out any other thing than fantastic? For us, the charming Liparic islands, the fire trek up to the volcano, the wonderful breakfast we get served with – it is already worth taking the…
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At 5:30 PM, we meet our guide, kind of an outgrown hippie, smoking one cigarette after the other and talking in strange languages. Martina with her capability of instinctive understanding brings it down to the core: He invented his own Esperanto. No matter whether he speaks Italian, French or English, it always sounds more or…
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The early morning sun shows today’s destination: Stromboli, one of the Liparic Islands. We expect black beaches, fire-spitting dragons and a walk up to the peak, while around 6:00 AM we only see a faint silhouette at the horizon. The campground crew talked us into the early speed boat, departing from Milazzo at 7:30…
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The day starts like every day should: Waking up close to the beach, then drive Hector to Capo Vaticano. Get flashed with the variety of looks the sea offers. In perfectly good mood we head off towards the Sicilia-Ferry, when suddenly the main road is blocked and the deviation takes us on tiniest roads, all…
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“Kann Spuren von geschlossener Asphaltdecke enthalten.” (May content traces of compact tarmac.) Martina knows how to define travel quality here. Hector, meanwhile, knows how to make funny sounds from his furniture… “Die Fahrt über den Vesuv dauert sicher länger als die Autobahn.” (how to get from South Etna to Northern Sicilia). “Sardinien oder Sizilien, ist…
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