Comments on: Road tripping the Sicilian coast http://matadornetwork.com/trips/roadtripping-the-sicilian-coast/ travel culture worldwide Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marta http://matadornetwork.com/trips/roadtripping-the-sicilian-coast/#comment-8087 Marta Sun, 09 Jan 2011 09:29:20 +0000 http://matadortrips.com/?p=6813#comment-8087 Charming and absolutely beautiful place, like "an agriturismo" called Borgo San Francesco that we used as a base to visiting other parts of Sicily. Great owners, speak english and will give you good tips and help you plan your travelling around...a wonderful pool and restaurant...very cheap but luxurious...we could not have found better...check out the website...www.borgosanfrancesco.it and call direct because they may give you a discount like they did us!!! also great town and beaches and real people not a tourist trap...and cheap because it is off the beaten path, but honestly the best kept secret...breathtaking views and very clean and cool little town with very friendly people and great ice creams and granitas. Charming and absolutely beautiful place, like “an agriturismo” called Borgo San Francesco that we used as a base to visiting other parts of Sicily.
Great owners, speak english and will give you good tips and help you plan your travelling around…a wonderful pool and restaurant…very cheap but luxurious…we could not have found better…check out the website…www.borgosanfrancesco.it
and call direct because they may give you a discount like they did us!!!
also great town and beaches and real people not a tourist trap…and cheap because it is off the beaten path, but honestly the best kept secret…breathtaking views and very clean and cool little town with very friendly people and great ice creams and granitas.

]]> By: Carlo Alcos http://matadornetwork.com/trips/roadtripping-the-sicilian-coast/#comment-4858 Carlo Alcos Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:27:55 +0000 http://matadortrips.com/?p=6813#comment-4858 We went the other way as we took a ferry from the mainland. We were only in Palermo a day but made sure to check out the catacombs, those were cool. Didn't care at all for Taormina...you can get a cool view of Etna from the amphitheatre there, but over all...meh. Rather than take a tour to Etna, just drive up to the parking lot and hike up, a very rewarding experience when you know you've reached the top craters while most everyone else took the gondola and the 4x4 buses! Would love to go back and spend more time on the island. We went the other way as we took a ferry from the mainland. We were only in Palermo a day but made sure to check out the catacombs, those were cool. Didn’t care at all for Taormina…you can get a cool view of Etna from the amphitheatre there, but over all…meh.

Rather than take a tour to Etna, just drive up to the parking lot and hike up, a very rewarding experience when you know you’ve reached the top craters while most everyone else took the gondola and the 4×4 buses!

Would love to go back and spend more time on the island.

]]> By: Nancy http://matadornetwork.com/trips/roadtripping-the-sicilian-coast/#comment-4828 Nancy Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:22:01 +0000 http://matadortrips.com/?p=6813#comment-4828 This article made me want to go to Sicily more than I already do. Cefalu sounds particularly amazing. This article made me want to go to Sicily more than I already do. Cefalu sounds particularly amazing.

]]> By: joshua johnson http://matadornetwork.com/trips/roadtripping-the-sicilian-coast/#comment-4825 joshua johnson Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:03:58 +0000 http://matadortrips.com/?p=6813#comment-4825 I wouldn't mind getting back to Sicily *UNDERSTATEMENT* I stayed in a hostel in Catania that had a cavern below with an underground river snaking into the darkness...anybody stayed there? I don't know the name.... I wouldn’t mind getting back to Sicily *UNDERSTATEMENT*

I stayed in a hostel in Catania that had a cavern below with an underground river snaking into the darkness…anybody stayed there? I don’t know the name….

]]> By: Candice http://matadornetwork.com/trips/roadtripping-the-sicilian-coast/#comment-4520 Candice Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:08:03 +0000 http://matadortrips.com/?p=6813#comment-4520 Would probably do something drastic to experience this. Seriously. Would probably do something drastic to experience this. Seriously.

]]> By: Alyssa http://matadornetwork.com/trips/roadtripping-the-sicilian-coast/#comment-4823 Alyssa Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:11:26 +0000 http://matadortrips.com/?p=6813#comment-4823 Not going to Sicily during my semester abroad in Rome is one of my BIGGEST Italy-related regrets. This solidifies it. I've gotta go back...! Thanks for this piece. Not going to Sicily during my semester abroad in Rome is one of my BIGGEST Italy-related regrets. This solidifies it. I’ve gotta go back…!

Thanks for this piece.

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