Showing posts with label Sicily. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sicily. Show all posts
Agora Hostel, Catania Sicily Italy
Agora Hostel in Catania, Sicily, ItalyCatania offers 2 hostels which cater for all tastes.
Agorà Hostel offers a great chilled out atmosphere with its famous bar and restaurant. Party nights are known to finish as late as 5am .. especially on Mondays!! Great for students and large groups.
Atrium Hostel offers a quieter location and is suited more for couples, families or small groups who want a bit more comfort and a good night of sleep. Whichever your choice you are guaranteed a super friendly welcome.
Many services run through Agorà hostel are also available to guests of Atrium Hostel: internet, restaurant and bar amongst others :-) Both hostels are in the historical centre of Catania and are easily reached from the bus and train stations.
Feature of the Week, September 21st to 29th 2008 and also Feb. 22nd to March 1st 2009
submitted by Kennedy Jones, Backpackers Hostels Canada
Places You Must Go This Spring: part 2
Here are three more fragrant, flower- filled places you should spend some time in this spring. See my previous post for three more heady destination ideas and the post before that for my criteria for selecting these aromatic spots:3) SYRIA – in the mountains behind the seaside town of Tartus, on the way to delightful Safita (itself a village of twisting lanes and cobblestone alleys dominated by a splendid Crusader keep) and Mishtayeh (with its handsome stone buildings), you’ll find quintessentially Mediterranean scenery of olive groves and citrus orchards, woods of pine trees, ramshackle stone houses with terraces shaded with grape vines and gardens grown wild with tangles of bouganvillea, jasmine, oleander, and cactus.
4) SICILY – in spring the interior of the island is blanketed with wildflowers, especially in the wild Madonie mountains near Cefalu where you can inhale the aromatic air as you walk old shepherd’s routes. As you drive through the picturesque landscapes around Siracusa and between the hill towns of Ragusa and Noto, with their beautiful baroque architecture, you’ll see an abundance of flowers by the roadside.
5) CYPRUS – the whole countryside is stunning, covered with fields of yellow mustard flowers in spring, but you’ll see kaleidoscopic colours in the more remote, pristine Karpaz peninsula (in Northern Cyprus), home to bucolic farmland and windswept sandy beaches, and the beautiful Arkamas peninsula (in the Republic of Cyprus) with its pine-covered hills and rocky coastline.