Rome - Sicily

Good bye - hope you enjoyed it, hope we will see you again. Have a safe trip back home. Ride one Alan und Ursula 9. Riding Day - Agrigento - Catania Last coffe stop in Sommatino. These guy got no stress! Playing cards, sitting round, talking - I mean it is a normal Monday! We were the highlight of the day!! Villa Romana - Bill Gates of the 4th century own the villa with 3.000 qm of mosaics. All preserved because covered under mud for centuries. The famous Bikini girls Boot beer in Villa Paradiso del Etna - everyone in one piece, lots of experiences and good rides Last supper! 8. Riding Day - Cefalu - Agrigento The group is arriving at the picnic place in Godrano The Brasilians - Marcelo and Godfather (Jayme) Yummee - and the leftovers were traded in with local families against lasagne and grilled sausages. No we are not in Greece - Agrigento is the place were these amazing Greek temples are. 7. Riding Day - Taormina - Cefalu We were heading towards the Etna again like yesterday. But then we turned right and had the Etna from the other side Lunch stop in Sperlinga. Normaly we can visit the Norman castle, carved into the rock. But.... ab huge piece of rock cracked out of the wall - watch the white hole. The castle is close at the moment - doesn`t matter, so we had a look along the edge where all the "houses" or caves are. Gorgeous Gangi with  Mount Etna in the background. You can buy a house in the city center for 1 Euro - go for it!! OK, you have to renovate it within 3 years for at least 30.000  Euros. But still it would be a  good winter escape. 6. Riding Day - Mount Etna View from the Baia Taormina Hotel Yes, its gonna be a perfect day for mount Etna, 3.350 m high, the only active vulcano in Europe Mare Neve - the lava fields, Mount Etna in the background Hi Tourguides out there - who knows this guy ????- maybe all of  you. He is on his 12th Edelweiss tour Dilvanio is happy. The Brasilians and the Kasachis went up to the very top of Mount Etna Meiram 5. Riding Day - Tropea - Taormina Lunch for the Van Driver + passenger Jayme Misto di Antipasti a base di pesce ... we asked how many plates! we were told 14 only so we started very excited ... ...but we ended up with 17 ... way to much!!! so he was the padrino (the Godfather) for 1 day! with a gun and a Coppola and a full belly at the end:)) a beautiful ride or even drive up with the van to have an awesome lunch! Forza D'Agro' is one of the spots to eat ;) Coffe Stop in Rosarno, Calabria Sicily - we are coming - our destination today is Taormina. On a rock plateau 20 m above sea level, Taormina looks out from its balcony over the sea to mount Etna. But first we are going along the Calabrian coast line. A picture stop in the morning before leaving - Tropea At the beach in Scilla - Siciliy can be seen already Delicous lunch in Grotto Azurra in Scilla We heading to Villa San Giovanni to enter the ferry 4. Riding Day -  Acquafreda - Tropea Beautiful Villa Cheta Marcel and Mauricio enjoying their breakfast. Biagio takes good care of us. as well as Brad and Caryn with a beautiful view to the sea First stop was the Redeemer of Maratea - Il Rendentore - the Brasilians felt home 3. Riding Day - Pompej - Acquafreda Leaving Pompej today with a lot of impressions, heading south towards the Amalfi cost. In Paestum - amazingly preseved Greece temples can be visited - a surprise will waiting for us. In the beautiful garden of the Forum Hotel in Pompej - what a nice group the region is wellknown for its lemons. The big ones are used to produce Limoncello Kampanien is the region wellknown for the best Mozzarella on this planet. One of the most famous "caseificio di mozzzarella di bufala" is the one of the Barlotti brothers just on the old walls of Paestum. 2.500 kg Mozzarella is the daily production. You can buy all varietes of this delicious cheese, also icecream made of buffalo milk, even soap and body lotion. Look at the horns - these are the baby ones. We had a buffalo picnic there.... Mozzarella in all varieties . Yummeeh!!! By the way - the color of the Italian flag is red-white-green Our both Kasachis have a rest and are enjoying the picnic dark black skin, big horns and this big brown eyes - peaceful animals coffe break on the Amalfi coast beautiful picnic prepared by Ursula!! A selfie is never wrong Brasilian Siesta Water Buffalo for the Mozzarella 2. Riding Day - Restday Ride to Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast Father and son - Jayme and Marcelo from Brasil, the guy who is rising his arms is Meiram from Kasachstan and Caryn and Bradley - overlooking the Gulf of Naples Granita di Limone - was a good refreshment. The Amalfi coast is well known for their lemons. Limoncello, hmmmm Dome of Amalfi Alan at work :-) And in the afternoon we booked a shuttle and did a guided city tour in Naples! Guess who was our guide famous shopping mall in Naples   Cafe Gamberinus - the 2 guys on the left are Meiram an his wife Togzhan. By the way - Meiram met the world tour incidentally in Kasachstan and invited the whole group for dinner   unbelieveable - really looks like in Vienna   ... ok not this one, this is a typical street in Naples   St. Peter of Naples :-)   Here was the birthplace of the Pizza Margerita, 100 years ago   Alan and our City guide for Napoli - thank you so much Domenico for the time you spent with us. Now even I believe that Naples is the most beautiful city on this planet :-)   the island of Capri   Domenico, James - he is on the 12th Edelweiss tour, Marcel, me, John from "East Texas" and  Alan   The Vesuv - really impressing   some different perspectives of the Vesuv   Thaaaanks Domenico, see you   Il nostro modello Domenico Schiano tra Ursula e  Belén Rodríguez ...   Vesuvio from the Porto di Napoli  "O mamma mamma mamma, o mamma mamma mamma, sai perché mi batte il corazon? Ho visto Maradona, ho visto Maradona, eh, mammà, innamorato son"   ... ma il mio vero amore e' e sara' Sarah .... :) Thank you very much Domenica! A good tour made by heart from a napoletano D.O.C.   The Rome to Sicily Tour is about to start. We have quite an international group - 10 people, 8 riders and 8 nationalities. Amazing!!! This Blog starts with a riddle!!! What flag is it??? I can tell you, the guy went out on his bike into Rome`s traffic by his own, found his Embassy and got some flags...   And he made it back to the hotel - quiet a perfomance.... So if you guys out there tell us what flag it is, we will continue with the blog :-) Maybe you won`t find out, than we tourguides have a little bit more time off!! I am looking forward to your suggestions.   1. Riding Day Rome - Pompej   The view towards the summer residence of the Pope with Lake Alban, in Rocca di Papa   BMW RT   Bradley and Caryn   On the way to Rocca Massima   James, Dilvanio and Marcelo   Group photo ;)   Lunch in Sperlona, real italian Pizza ... Togzhan and Meiram Marcel is ready Marcel from Switzerland is ready to go one of our Brasilians Jayme - the bull This guy is trying to fix his car. He better hurries up, is destination is Bari - which is quite a distance that how dinner looks in the hotel "Forum" in Pompej