Wish I was still there!
13 February 2016
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Ortigia, Short Breaks, Sicily, Siracusa
We’re back from our travels. We took a few days in Sicily – we’ve already seen a lot of this island and love it. Loads of history, you can’t chuck an olive without hitting an ancient monument or doric temple, great food and drink, friendly people and good weather. Don’t know what more you could ask for really!
We stayed in Ortigia which is within Siracusa. Origia is a beautiful island. It has a wonderful array of twisty streets all lined with houses from the baroque period. The main piazza is just gorgeous and the Duomo is a wonderful building that manages to display the many different ages of this town. The Duomo was originally the Greek Temple of Athena and the doric columns still make up part of the building.
No more words – the pictures can speak for themselves:
The Fountain of Diana
The Fountain of Diana
Piazza del Duomo
Palazzo Beneventano Del Bosco
Palazzo Beneventano Del Bosco
We visited the Archaeological Museum – this is a Medusa mask
Fantastic Food
Did I mention the wine?
Twisty turny streets
Relaxing in the sunset!
Couldn’t resist these trees -Fangorn!!
Books and travelling with Lynn 
So beautiful. I love the sunset picture. 🙂
Thanks – I was trying to be all ‘arty’ but it’s not really me! I tried though.
Lynn 😀
Beautiful
It was. Absolutely beautiful.
Looks amazing!
It’s an amazing place with absolutely loads to see! Loved it.
Lynn 😀
Looks like a gorgeous place.
It certainly was!
Gorgeous pics, Lynn! Looks like you had a great time. I especially love that seaside photo!
We had a great time – only four nights but it felt like we managed to really chill out.
What a lovely place to get away from it all! Your photos are wonderful, Lynn!
Thanks, it was great.
Lynn 😀
Looks like you had a wonderful time – I want to go! I also really appreciate the Fangorn looking trees 🙂
I know – those trees are excellent!
Lynn 😀
Lovely island! I went there for a cousin-in-law’s wedding last year :). My strongest memories are the terrors of driving around on windy streets full of aggressive drivers, but Siracusa and Noto were both big highlights. Your pictures are beautiful!
The terrors of driving round these tiny little streets are very real! We didn’t take a car this time so it was a bit more relaxing. Noto is great too – we couldn’t revisit (because no hire car this time) but we will no doubt go back at some point as we both really love Sicily.
Lynn 😀
Welcome back! It’s wonderful to know you had a great time: your pictures speak for themselves 🙂
Thanks – we both love Sicily so we’ve been to this particular spot already (twice in fact) so we could just chill out this time.
Lynn 😀
What a lovely holiday, Lynn!
It really was quite beautiful.
Lynn 😀
Looks absolutely gorgeous! Glad you had an amazing time 😀
It was brilliant. We’ve been before so we could chill a little this time which was lovely.
Lynn ;D