
Catania - square - s.k. photo
1. An atmosphere
full to bursting with life
2. Strolling in Bellini Park with Mount
Etna towering over the city – Catania is a city to explore on
foot
3. The locals are always willing to help with directions
4.
Great food, e.g. pasta alla norma
5. All the major sights are
within walking distance
6. Less chaotic traffic than in Naples,
for instance
7. A former Benedictine monastery, the Monasterio dei
Benedettini, is both large and beautiful
8. The local fish market
on Piazza Carlo Alberto
1. Sometimes in
shops and restaurants we had the feeling that they wanted to rip us
off
2. The local taxi drivers are unscrupulous charlatans, and
more cunning than their counterparts further east
3. Not many
locals can speak English
4. In the market we spotted some
wandering eyes straying to our bags, and perhaps our pockets too
5.
There’s a lot of garbage in some places, especially in the
evening
6. You can’t count on drivers stopping for pedestrians
at a zebra crossing
7. I’m not a huge fan of the Italian Baroque
(give me Gothic any day!)
8. Yet more garbage on the sandy beaches
(known as spiagge
in Italian)
9. We went to a restaurant with terrible pizza (in
Italy!)
10. Catania is less interesting than Palermo