Europe Travel Journal

This category holds all of the posts on my visits to Europe. Country subcategories within the Europe category contain posts from each country I visited in Europe. And municipal subcategories within each European country category contain posts on each city and town I visited within those countries.

I take some liberty on my definitions of cities and towns. For example, if I take a day trip outside of a municipality I usually include the post on that in the subcategory for the city or town where I started and ended the day.

All of my friends and family are in North America. But I don’t write about visits to them. But I do visit Europe a lot, and I write about those trips. So, this category will likely always have more entries than the other continent categories in this journal.

Taormina in the Rain

The train from Catania to Taormina took an hour. I don’t know how much faster it would have been if it hadn’t made a dozen...

Mount Etna, Et Al

My main activity today was a half-day bus tour to Mount Etna. Yes, that Mount Etna. Yup, it’s still considered an active volcano. And, yes,...

Catania

This morning, I rode a train from Siracusa for just over an hour to the next destination on this Sicilian trip, Catania. Having arrived in...

Siracusa Mainland

Today, I spent the day on mainland Siracusa, visiting sites all located within about a ten-minute walking radius of my hotel. Sadly, I didn’t make...

Ortigia (Siracusa)

Before I get into this post on Ortigia, I need to correct something that might have been misleading in yesterday’s post. There, I said that,...

Ragusa Ilba (Mostly)

Today, I spent most of the day walking to, from, and around Ragusa Ilba, and eating lunch there. My hotel is in Ragusa Superiore, about...

Piazza Amerina to Ragusa

Today took me from Piazza Amerina to Ragusa, with a stop along the way. Obviously, today didn’t take me there. Days just sort of linger...