RTS1401 Rome To Sicily

RTS1401 Rome To Sicily

24 Apr 2014
/Alan Magnoni
Tour is over in Catania … No more photos to upload but still time to say thank you and good bye. It was a great pleasure to lead you from Rome to Catania. Plenty of good memories and many stories to tell our friends at home.  Hopefully we can meet one day again in this beautiful country! Greetings and good luck Alan and Ursula   TRying to get Gas on an italian holiday... Going up to Mt. Etna - colder then it looks ! ! ! Caccamo' - our first coffe stop Second coffe before a great picnic! The forest in Ficuzza, after the village of Godrano! A very special place! A great picnic made by TG Ursula!!!! Great job! The gelato man was on the road as well ... And the TG Domenico was here with his Ape Piaggio .... :) ...looking foreward for the next tour with you, guaglio' ... Photo session in Corleone! Coffe Stop in Prizzi! Great coffe in every little village ... And on the way to Agrigento to visit the temples - what a great ride!!! Here a nice group photo in Scilla, Calabria. Hanne, the tough girl on the 1200 GS downtown Scilla. We can already have a look to Sicily. Very hard work with this maps .... nearly a MISSION IMPOSSIBLE ... ... anyway, we found where we wanted to go - and we had lunch as well .... Messina from the ferry! Fred and Bryna from Maryland Forza d`Agro - was film set for the "Godfather".  Mr. Corleone married here. Here in Forza D'Agro, just outside of Taormina, where "The Godfather" in 1972 was made. Francis Ford Coppola, Al Pacino, Marlon Brando. And Heather! :) Plenty of great roads and just perfect for having a good time!!! DAY 2 day 2 started with a birthday :) here we go Hey Janet - we all wish you a fantastic birthday and good years coming with the "Erotic Secrets of Pompei" :-) plenty of secrets around of Pompei! then we tryed to get a group photo - wasn't that easy .... but his shirt says impossible is nothing! and we think the same .... Heather and the local limes first coffe stop on the way to Amalfi Lunch in Amalfi, CIELO MARE TERRA, da Ciccio! A good friend and a very good chef!! Pasta al cartoccio!!! Spectacular!!! Also the seafood starter is a dream!! What a ride at the Amalfi cost ... Afternoon coffe at the temples of Paestum The Temples of Paestum in the afternoon. DAY 1 First riding day here south of Rome! Good weather, good bikes, good people! Safety briefing in the morning Castel Gandolfo, the Pope's summer residence Bruce and Nicola from Australia Fredric, Edward, Heather, Bryna and Andrew! Rocca Massima, the first coffe stop on the way to Pompei. Hanne and Bernhard enjoying the first Cappuccino. And now the guided tour at the ruins in Pompei! Hector did his very best to explain all kind of secrets of Roman life.