When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
Archive for the tag 'Etna'
10 Comments CherryPie on Dec 23rd 2019
Filed under Holidays, Taormina 2019
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
William Butler Yeats
10 Comments CherryPie on Dec 16th 2019
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Science & Nature, Taormina 2019
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
Rumi
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 9th 2019
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Taormina 2019
Taormina – Day Twelve
I got up early to finish my packing then I sat on the French balcony for one last time, enjoying the view of Etna in the early morning sunshine. It was heavenly; birds, bees and the occasional butterfly flew around me. A damsel fly landed and sunbathed on a nearby post.
As soon as Mr C [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Nov 7th 2019
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Taormina – Day Ten
Our alarm was set for 6.30 to enable us to arrive for breakfast at 7.30 (as the doors opened). As we arrived we were surprised to find that the room was quickly filling up with a large number of Americans. We couldn’t help but overhear their loud conversations; they were joining a trip to Etna. [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on Nov 2nd 2019
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Taormina – Day Nine
As on the previous day I enjoyed chilling (with a book) out on the French balcony in the early morning sunshine whilst Mr C snoozed for a while. Our plan for the day was to visit the Alacantara Gorge on the CityBySee bus but, once again, the trip set off at lunch time leaving the [...]
11 Comments CherryPie on Oct 31st 2019
Filed under Holidays, Taormina 2019
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake
12 Comments CherryPie on Oct 27th 2019
