Thurs, Sept 24 Taormina Sicily

Booked a fire and water tour with Around Aetna tours last night, and meet the bus at 8am. Quite a hike up from our B&B. Taormina on a map or internet looks flat. Surprise! It has one street by the beach, and everything else clings to the top of a hill. Very old town, the Romans had a theater here and vacationed here too. It has always been a tourist hang out. One I tire is us up on Mount Etna. We took a four wheel drive truck up. The wind was blowing so hard at the top we could not go all the way up. I got out and took a couple of pictures, but it was too windy and too high of elevation to climb around. We were at 8000 feet. The next hike around cinder cones was lower and more protected. The cinders were really loose! The picture of us is at the cinder cones. The middle pictures are of me in Castlemola and and view of the valley from that town.The bottom picture is where I zoomed down to the group at the top near vents.