Giardini Naxos, Taormina, Sicily, Italy .... last night

I am quite a ways behind with the updates as we had no internet for 4 days and the Wi-Fi here is crappola, so will post this and work backwards when I can, having lots of fun and adventure, has worn us out a bit so we have booked a holiday on the same cruise ship we honeymooned on 'Legend of the Seas', we depart July 7 from Genoa, enjoy ....

Giardini Naxos, Taormina, Sicily, Italy .... last night

I cooked Jo dinner tonight in our Sicilian apartment over looking the bay of Taormina, it has been a very hot day, but now it is late evening, the sun has gone down and there is a beautiful breeze flowing through the open windows in the dining room.  The room is at the West end of a large property, it is the highest room along the Taormina foreshore, with 270 degree views from just this room, it is also the kitchen and laundry area and has the feel of a beach shack.

As I sit and write this, we are enjoying a beer after dinner, there is a restaurant below us on the ground floor, a guy is singing "The Sounds of Silence" while strumming his guitar, the lights of the village and the boats are glittering, in the distance are Italians voices still enjoying the beach and a dog barking, it feels like your watching a movie, it is awesome.

The beach front is littered with around 700 beach brollies, it is a sandy beach this end of town, pebbles up the over end, the bay is over shadowed by mountains to the North, which of course have houses and villas built along and over the cliffs, it is a beautiful place.  The people here are very laid back and many speak fluent english, it seems many more than we have experienced elsewhere.
One of the other things I am really loving here, the ground out the front and a long the coast for about three kilometers is dead flat, there are no stairs, except to our apartment, which is on the sixth floor, there are two lifts up to the fifth floor, I can live with that.

We have stayed at so many beautiful places through our trip, on the Seine river in Paris, on the Amalfi Coast with views to Positano, a few days ago at Scilla in Calabria, in a beautiful little fishing village, but this place has trumped them all, I would not come back to Italy without first booking some time here in Taormina, I'd double our time if we were to have this apartment again, it is stunning, simply stunning.