Feedback on Naples/Paestum + Sicily Itinerary Requested

Counting inbound and outbounds, you have 9 full or partial travel days in 23 days. If that's how you like to travel, fine. Just know that every move is at least a half day spent NOT sightseeing or experiencing the vibe. From your itinerary, I assume you're particularly interested in Greek and Roman ruins as a particular focus. My point is I would normally encourage you to maybe eliminate Trapani in this plan but that probably(?) eliminates Segesta as a stop along the route. If that's not a big deal, I'd consider reallocating those Trapani days to Lipari and/or Ragusa.

How are you planning to get to Lipari? Ferry I assume? There are overnight options which would take the place of a hotel stay.

Thanks, Chris. Yes, there are more transfer days than I would like, but 4 of them are with a private driver, so those days have at least one sightseeing stop (eg, Segesta and/or Erice between Palermo and Trapani, Selinunte and/or Scala di Turchi between Trapani and Agrigento, Villa Romana del Casale between Agrigento and Ragusa, Noto between Ragusa and Siracusa). That leaves 3 transfer days within the itinerary (not much I can do to eliminate the two other transfer days from and to the US except move to Campania or Sicily, which actually would be an interesting adventure but is not in the cards for me).

I looked at the ferry between Naples and Lipari, but in April it only runs one day per week, and that day of the week does not fit in this itinerary. I am considering adding the driver service to the Lipari-Milazzo-Palermo transfer day so we can make a pit stop in Cefalu before we arrive in Palermo, which would also eliminate one of the possible day trips from the Palermo list of activities.

Paestum is somewhat of an outlier that I added at the last minute-since we are taking the train from Naples to Milazzo (for the ferry to Lipari), we don't have the option of making Paestum an enroute sightseeing stop, so I added in a single overnight there. Mrs W and I both dislike single night stops (the least efficient duration), but in this case adding more nights resulted in an unacceptable reduction elsewhere, so I stuck with that plan. We will catch an 8 or 9 AM train from Naples to Paestum, store our bags at the hotel, and spend the rest of the day exploring the museum and archaeological site. Then we continue our journey to Sicily the next day via train (Paestum-Sapri-Milazzo), ferry to Lipari, then ferry back to Milazzo and take the train (or meet our driver) and continue on to Palermo

Trip plans that cover more than the sights of the base cities themselves always involve a trade between the "hub and spoke" approach (one base, day trips from that base), but in the case of Sicily (and Ireland, our trip this past April), the sequential style adds the benefit of experiencing smaller towns and villages that are much closer to the sights. After several of these types of trips (Ireland, Switzerland, Scotland, central Italy, Andalucia), we have concluded that the series approach (a mix of short and long overnights that are well positioned for our sightseeing) works better for us and is an acceptable compromise between the two itinerary types.

Chris, your observation that we have a strong focus on archaeological sites made me realize that some of our sightseeing days (especially those farther into the itinerary) may end up as "down days" if we tire of yet another archaeological sightseeing day, so thank you for that observation! In fact, I may look at diversifying our sightseeing so we don't get Greek ruins "burnout". :-)

I'm not saying this is better, but you could take the overnight ferry from Naples to Palermo saving Lipari til the end. There are ferries from Catania to Lipari, but you'd have to check seasonality. That essentially gives you an extra 3/4 day and replaces your hotel for that night.

I actually like ferries for day trips or transfers, but I am not sure I feel the same for an overnight since the accommodations are rather spartan. I do know that replacing a comfy hotel bed with a bunk on an overnight ferry is a non-starter for Mrs W, so our ferry journeys will only be during the day. However, the main challenge I am having with ferries (daytime or overnight) are the seasonal schedules-April timetables for certain ferries is limited (sometimes a lot more limited) than during high season, which was actually a factor that caused me to wonder if I should include the Aeolians at all. Since we are not planning to swim or lay on the beach, the colder water and temperatures are not an issue, but if we have mostly rainy days while on the islands (definitely a possibility in April), that might not be much fun.

One change I already made was to convert the Paestum overnight into a day trip from Naples-the direct train from Napoli Centrale to Paestum is around an hour each way, so a day trip to the museum and archaeological site from Naples is very doable. Since we also have a day at Pompeii (and possibly Herculaneum) for Naples, I want to give some thought to whether or not those sites are different enough for us. We are not archaeology scholars, so it might be sufficient to include only one of them; of course, then I would have to choose which one! Paestum is likely much less crowded than either Pompeii or Herculaneum, so that could also be a factor in the choice. Then we could use the extra day for something else, maybe another island or a day trip to a village on the Amalfi coast.

Another possibility is Parco Reggia di Caserta, which looks interesting and does not seem to be on the tourist radar, at least for group tours. I currently have a full day devoted to sights in Naples proper, which is likely inadequate, so the easiest might be to add another day in Naples.

Chris, I am revisiting Trapani as a source of more time for Lipari or Ragusa. We definitely want to visit Erice and Segesta but would probably be fine with bypassing Selinunte or Scala di Turchi (I'm already considering dropping the latter), so we could visit Segesta or Erice as an enroute stop and the other as a day trip from Palermo, or maybe even combine the two into a (rather long) day trip from Palermo, then harvest the Trapani days/nights for Lipari or Ragusa (or both). The other day trip I was considering for Trapani was a boat trip to Favignana, but more time in Lipari wins over that, at least for me.

We did the overnight from Palermo to Naples. No bunks, just comfy little single berths in an admittedly tight ensuite cabin. I slept my best sleep of the entire trip.

Chris, thanks much for the feedback on the overnight ferry-the small cabin would not be an issue, and it is nice to hear the you had no issues sleeping. The April ferry timetable may still preclude the use of the ferry (at least in the itinerary's current state), and since I am already tweaking it for other things, there is no reason not to keep revisiting this. There are other strong advocates for the overnight ferry (understandable since it an efficient use of time, similar to a sleeper train), It is still on the possibilities list. In fact, after adding a 5th night to Naples for Paestum (ie, day trip instead of an overnight), I am only one day off the Naples-Lipari weekly schedule (every Tuesday evening, vs a Monday departure from Naples on the current itinerary), so maybe it is our destiny to take this ferry since the itinerary seems to be adjusting in that direction! :-)

Chris, I realized I was using the ferry timetable for Naples-Lipari, which I believe is once per week on Tuesdays, and not the Naples-Palermo ferry timetable, which I believe is daily. As you point out, if I move the Aeolians to the end of the trip, I can use the Naples-Palermo ferry instead of the train and save a day, so I finally caught up with your reasoning!

Our departure flight from Catania is at 10 AM, so we need to spend the night before in or near Catania. Maybe there is a way to insert Lipari between Ragusa and Siracusa so that Siracusa is our last overnight stop-that would avoid the need for an overnight just to connect to our departure flight.

Chris, since the ferry arrives in Palermo at 7 AM, what did you do with your luggage? 7 AM would be too early for us to check in to our Palermo hotel, and I wonder if it is also too early to leave luggage at our hotel. For the departure, we would need to arrange to leave our luggage at our Naples, since checkout time is typically 8 or more hours before the ferry departure from Naples. I think I know how to shift Lipari to the end of the trip, so if I can answer the question of how to store our luggage, I will pursue this option in more detail.

I will only address a couple of your plans. We used Caserta as a home base for 4 nights as spouse did not want to deal with Naples and had been there before. The palace there is amazing. It is worth a visit and under the radar of the RS folks. An Italian acquaintance recommended it . We were there mid April last year (week before Easter). A small group of elementary school kids on the shuttle up to the waterworks and maybe two very small tourist groups inside. Totally worth it if you especially want to avoid the crowds. Caserta is on the train line to Naples and easy to do.

As far as Pompeii and Herculaneum, we visited both on separate days. Herculaneum was my favorite. Not many visitors and the story is very interesting. They are both amazing sights.

We also did a private Sicily tour in 2017. We visited Trapani, Erice, Marsala. It was a wine tour so we had specific places to visit. Trapani was a quick tour, the wind was blowing so hard up at Erice, and our lodging in Marsala was wonderful, but not much else to do there.

Mother Duck, thanks for sharing your experience, which is very helpful. Caserta is a great idea as an alternative to Naples-we have not visited Naples itself, but since it is mostly an entry point to Italy for our Sicily trip (no viable or affordable flight options were available to Palermo with the tickets I already purchased), I am now looking for the best location to use as a connect point for either a ferry to Palermo or a train to Palermo or Milazzo, then Lipari.

The more I look at this option, the more I like it-I read about the palace in Caserta (Lonely Planet calls it "Italy's answer to Versailles"), which is very different from what we will see in Sicily, so I like the variety we would get with that. The logistics are quite acceptable-Caserta is a 25 minute taxi trip from Naples airport, so longer than the taxi ride to Naples city but still not an onerous amount of time. Two nights in Caserta would give us a full day to explore the Parco Reggio de Caserta, then have a good night's sleep before transferring to Sicily. Mother Duck, thank you very much for suggesting this option!

You are welcome. Caserta was a surprising and most welcomed alternative. The palace is amazing and has been used in many movies, including Conclave, a couple of Star Wars along with many Italian movies. The architecture is well described along with the construction. It was intended to rival Versailles. The town itself is compact and has some good restaurants, most don’t promote themselves to Americans or English speakers. We managed.

Hope you can add it into your itinerary!

Oh, and we rented a small apartment not too far from the train station. The manager/ owner met us on our way from the train, took us to the apartment, walked us to the cafe where we had coupons for a coffee and pastry every morning of our stay. He even helped us back to the train with our bags on Easter morning to go to Rome.

Mother Duck, your suggestion for Caserta over Naples is similar to what I have attempted to do with all of our trips, ie, spend the first few nights in a lower key overnight town or city to allow a gentler acclimation to the destination country. Naples is the antithesis of that-it is a dynamic, high energy city that I would ordinarily put at the very end of a trip, but in this case I had no choice because it was the best entry point to Italy for our Sicily itinerary (Rome also works, but the train and ferry options from Naples are better). The town does not sound like a tourist destination, even with the presence of the palace, but that also implies that it will be quieter and less crowded than the more tourist oriented towns and cities around Naples Bay and the Amalfi coast.

I have already incorporated a 2 night stay in Caserta for the first two nights of our trip, which will give us an opportunity to visit the Parco Reggio de Caserta and have a leisurely dinner at the end of our first full day. The next task is to decide which method is best for transferring to Sicily, ie, fly (Easy Jet has direct flights to both Palermo and Catania from Naples), ferry (two different overnight ferries from Naples to Palermo, sadly none to Lipari on our transfer day, which is a Friday) or the train.

It's difficult to follow your evolving plans in terms of what is being replaced with what, but just a few thoughts on prioritizing attractions:
Roman sites: Pompeii and Herculaneum are both amazing, world class, and they are different enough not to be repetitious. Don't try to do them both on the same day, though. The Villa Romana in central Sicily is also a remarkable must-see in my opinion, and quite different from either Pompeii and Herculaneum; in particular, while you will see some Roman mosaics in the latter, and some also at the museum in Naples if you go there, the extent and quality of the ones in Sicily is unsurpassed, except possibly in the Bardo Museum in Tunis, and those ones, while in a lovely palace museum, are not in situ.
Greek sites: I loved Paestum and highly recommend it, however, it's similar enough to where you're going in Sicily (Agrigento and perhaps Segesta) that if you need to drop something this would be a good candidate.
Caserta? I haven't been so I'm in no position to contradict favorable reviews from those who have, but "Italy's answer to Versailles" seems a bit exaggerated. Sure, they're both large palaces, but from what I've read Caserta is more noteworthy merely for its sheer size than for artistic or historic importance. It's newer than Versailles (mid-18th rather than primarily 17th century), much less decorative, and the seat of the rather mundane Sicily/Naples Bourbon monarchs rather than the French "Sun King" and his progeny. I'm sure it's worth a visit, but I would prioritize any of the other sites I've mentioned in this message over Caserta -- which is of course exactly why I've seen those places rather than Caserta on my trips to southern Italy. When it comes to royal palaces of that era, the best ones IMO in addition to Versailles are in Vienna, Potsdam (near Berlin), Madrid, Fontainebleau (near Paris) and Wurzburg Germany (also St. Petersburg Russia but that is not a feasible destination in the foreseeable future).

Slate, I am guilty as charged-my plan is more than a bit dynamic as I incorporate some of the many comments I have received, some of them contradictory with each other, which is expected and desired since it gives me the opportunity to evaluate multiple possible solutions. I don't disagree with you that Versailles (and the other palaces you reference) are likely more elaborate or majestic than Caserta, but my goal was mainly to find something interesting to fill up a recovery day between our arrival flight from LA and our departure train to Sicily. I finally decided that since Naples and Campania is not the focus of this trip, it would be better to plan our arrival day(s) for what we need from them, which is to address the sleep deprivation we will have on arrival, as well as our struggle with a 9 hour time zone differential between the US West coast and Italy. I agree that the sights in Napes are more compelling, but Naples as a first overnight stop does not help us with our lack of sleep; in fact, it may exacerbate the problem unless I can find a quiet hotel that is also convenient to Napoli Centrale, which seems highly unlikely given its location in central Naples. Caserta is not the equal to Naples for sightseeing, but it has its own train station, so no need to return to Naples to transfer to the train to Sicily. The palace in Caserta looks interesting enough to give us something to do on our first full day in Italy, but its function is more as an acclimation vehicle, not a highlight of our sightseeing plans, at least for this trip.

Luggage storage shouldn't be a problem at your Palermo hotel if it's an actual hotel or staffed accommodation. 7a is pretty early for the various Deposito Bagagli places to be open, but maybe one of them has an early opening. Maybe a coffee shop, for example.
I wouldn't store them inside the port, even if that was an option. It would just be a hassle to retrieve, IMO

The advice about not doing Herculaneum and Pompeii the same day is really good. The Pompeii scavi are enormous and more than enough for a full day tromping around. Doing both would be exhausting. And yes, the mosaics at the Casale Villa are mind-blowing. Well worth a detour and it makes a handy lunch stop since there's a "food court" out front.

Chris, Slate, Mother Duck-thank you very much for your help. After a lot of research and suggestions from this forum and Trip Advisor, I came up with the following itinerary:

• Fly Naples, airport transfer to port, ferry to Ischia, Procida or Capri, 2 nights
• late afternoon/early evening ferry island-Naples, transfer to Naples-Palermo ferry, overnight to Palermo
• Palermo (4 nights, 3 full days)-city walking tour, Monreale, market + cooking class, second day trip or more Palermo sights
• Meet private driver, transfer to Trapani, enroute stops at Segesta and Erice, drive to Trapani hotel
• Trapani (3 nights): day trip to Marsala/Mozia, day trip to Egadi island
• Transfer Trapani-Agrigento, enroute stop at Selinunte and/or Scala di Turchi or Torre Salsa, drive to Agrigento hotel
• Agrigento (2 nights): full day tour of Valle di Templi & Mussomeli castle
• Transfer Agrigento-Ragusa, enroute stop at Villa Romana del Casale, lunch in Piazza Armerina
• Ragusa (3 nights): Ragusa town walking tour + free afternoon (unless if in Palermo or if we want another one), day hike in area
• Transfer Ragusa, enroute stop in Modica for lunch, stop in Noto if time, drive to hotel in Ortigia, bid farewell to private driver
• Ortigia (3 nights): Siracusa sights (Neapolis, Museum, Catacombs), Ortigia town walk, puppet show (if showing on our dates)
• Transfer Ortigia-Taormina, enroute day tour of WW2 museum in Catania, arrive in Taormina
• Taormina (4 nights): Mt Etna hiking day trip, Lipari (Aeolian Islands) day trip, Mt Etna wine tasting or free day
• Airport transfer Taormina-Catania, fly home

Mother Duck, I still like the Caserta option, so if I find that my plan to transfer to an island for our first 2 nights falls through, Caserta will be the plan. If we end up on an island, Caserta will go on my do list for a future trip that focuses more on Campania-it is close ehough that we could be Naples commuters, ie, stay in Caserta and take the train into Naples for our sightseeing days or for day trips to the archaeological sites, then retreat to Caserta for a quieter evening. We are not club or bar folks, so we would not miss the better access to nightlife by staying in Caserta vs. Naples.

Chris, it took me while, but I finally saw the light with regard to the ferries, so thank you for that!

Slate, I hope this plan is a bit clearer than the chaotic, ever changing itineraries that came before it! I have noted your recommendation for not combining Herculaneum and Pompeii into a single day (which is the overwhelming consensus), and your feedback on the Sicily elements of our trip is most appreciated!

Since this is a VERY full itinerary, I may dial back some of the days so we have some down time, but for now, this is the plan.

That looks like a very good itinerary to me. A very good choice to see the WW II museum in Catania — it’s excellent and something quite different from what else you’ll be visiting. Actually, I liked Catania a lot in addition to that museum. It’s lively, walkable, interesting sights, good restaurants, but not a lot of tourists relatively speaking. An underrated city. I was glad our tour spent four nights there and daytripped to Taormina rather than the reverse. Taormina is beautiful, but small and crowded. But I think either is a good base for that area. I would strongly recommend trying to see the Naples Archeological Museum if possible when passing through that city, as it contains most of the actual artifacts from Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Slate, thanks for the feedback. Others that have helped me with this itinerary have had the same comments as you regarding Catania, ie, it is underrated and a much less crowded alternative to Taormina, plus it is much more convenient for a morning flight from Catania airport. I am at the beginning of my research for hotels for all the overnight stops, so I will likely look at Catania for completeness' sake if nothing else.

The archaeological museum is one of the primary reasons I am still a bit hesitant about not staying in Naples, but it is a certainty that we will be taking another trip to southern Italy sometime in the future, where we can give Naples the time it deserves.

I already found and booked a Taormina hotel I like a lot, the Hotel Villa Angela-it is above the main part of town but walkable (really hikeable) into town, with an on-site restaurant, plus it has incredible views of Mt Etna, the town, the coastline and the Strait of Messina. The booking is cancellable, so if I decide to switch to Catania (or another Taormina hotel), I can still do that since the booking is several months away.

I think the more challenging booking will be for Palermo (and Naples if we end up staying in the city)-both have a reputation as being "lively" cities, which I think is the travel writer euphemism for loud and chaotic (like calling a small fixer upper house "cute and in need of TLC"). I know we would love the access to the excellent cultural and art sights in Naples, as well as the option to have Napoli pizza every night if we wanted to do so, so I plan to search for a hotel there that could meet our "quiet night's sleep" needs in Naples first before I book anything. It is unfortunate that both Naples and Palermo are the first two cities on our itinerary instead of at the end, when we would be visiting them after being fully acclimated to the 9 hour time zone difference and will have recovered from our sleep deprivation from the flight from LA. In any event, I am keeping my options open for both cities with regard to our location in or near the city center.

Hotel recommendations for Palermo and Catania — I was on a tour earlier this year that used these and I liked them. Both four star.
Palermo: Hotel Porta Felice, on a quiet street in Kalsa neighborhood, near the water, museums, gardens, good restaurants, a supermarket. Not too long a walk to the other central Palermo areas of interest (eg, four corners, cathedral, opera house).
Catania: Palace Hotel. As centrally situated as you can be in Catania on the main street (Via Etnea) but it’s pedestrianized there, and the pedestrians aren’t rowdy, so it’s quiet. A number of good restaurants very close, and a nice park across the street.

Villa Romana del Casale was my favorite site out of two weeks in Sicily. Just one note about your visit there: I recommend leaving Agrigento EARLY and getting to the villa as close to opening as you can (9 am). The floors in the whole place are amazing mosaics, which they have protected by constructing elevated walkways. That limits the amount of space to move around, and when the tour groups start rolling in, it can get very crowded. Apple Maps says it takes about 1.5 hrs to drive there from Agrigento, so it should be doable. 2 hours is a good amount of time for the visit.

Ii think you are making a mistake going to Lipari only on a day trip.

EK, I don't disagree that a day trip to Lipari is (criminally!) insufficient, but after a lot of research about visiting the Aeolians in April, I decided to push a full immersion in the Aeolians to a future trip. This day trip will probably be more of a torture event for me knowing that I really would rather spend a week there, but a day trip is still better than no trip at all. An acquaintance on TA convinced me that the best way to arrive is via ferry from Naples, since the first thing you see as you arrive in the Aeolians in the early morning hours is the island of Stromboli rising from the sea, which sounds awesome. In April, those ferries are once per week, and the day of the week they were scheduled does not fit our overall itinerary. Since I could not shift our travel dates to May or June, I chose the next best thing, ie, an overnight ferry from Naples to Palermo-we won't get the Stromboli apparition in the early morning, but we will get Vesuvius in our rear view mirror when we depart Naples.

Slate, thanks for the hotel recos-I will check them out. Mille grazie!

MJH, I have received the same advice from others, so thank you for your input. Since we have two nights in Agrigento (vs one, which seems to be more common), it will be easier to get an early start and arrive at the Villa when they open. Do you happen to know of a trattoria we could visit for lunch in Piazza Armerina?

What I might do is split the baby, two nights in Taormina and two in Catania (or 3 and 1) although that would have the downside of an additional hotel move.

Slate, I considered all three, but as you point out, I would then have 3 overnight stops, all within an hour's drive of each other. That is what the Rick Steves tour folks do-they have 2 nights in Ortigia, followed by 2 nights in Taormina, with the final 2 nights in Catania. From what I can tell, Taormina is a substitute for Ragusa, which used to precede Ortigia, with the last night in Catania (the tour was 11 days then, now it's 12). I was actually signed up for one of those tours in 2016, but I made the fatal mistake of scheduling our tour the same week my daughter graduated from university, so I would have been excommunicated from the family for taking that trip! That also illustrates how long I have been wanting to do this trip-hey, only 10 years later! :-)

Having said that, I have 7 nights between Ortigia and Taormina, so I would not have to settle for a one night stop, ie, 3+2+3 might work. With the overnights so close to each other, I would not lose that much time with the transfers, just the extra time with the other overhead (packing/unpacking, checking in and out, etc). I will give that some thought.

Sorry, my math skills left the building-the 3+2+3 was also a result of stealing a night from Agrigento!

In Piazza Armerina, we liked having lunch at the non-fancy La Locanda and ate there twice.

Alternatively, just push the easy button and grab something at one of the kiosks outside the entrance to Villa Casale. It's a nice chill setting in the courtyard and there'll be something for every taste. That saves you at least an hour on a long day of travel.

Can’t really weigh in on lunch. We were on a group tour and had a wine tasting and lunch arranged at a winery on our way to Ragusa. (Not a place where an individual could drop in for a meal.)

Nancy, thanks for the recommendation. The courtyard at La Locanda looks lovely, nice setting for a lunch (or dinner if we stayed in PA. Speaking of which, I am still considering PA vs Agrigento for our 2 nights in the area, so I plan to take a look at the B&B you stayed at-I know there is not as much to see in PA, but our single full day there will be pretty full with visits to Valle di Templi, so spending a couple of nights in PA might be a nice change from the other stops we will be making. Since you stayed in both places, I'd be interested in how the two compare for an overnight. BTW, I am still referring to your trip report for our other overnights and sightseeing, so much useful info!

Chris, good suggestion-I haven't done a timeline for this day, but it is one of the longer transfer days on the trip, so the kiosks might be the most expedient option of all.

MJH, do you recall the name of the winery you visited? I don't have a lot of intelligence for this area, so I'd at least like to take a peek at their web site, especially if you liked the wine!

The winery was Tenute Senia in Chiaramonte Gulfi, near Ragusa. They have a web site but it is not ready for prime time -- full of "lorem ipsum" and scanty with English (www.tenuteseniawine.it). A site called Wine Tasting Italy (www.winerytastingsicily.com) actually has somewhat more comprehensible info on them. The wines weren't memorable (as in, I literally don't remember what they were like, which means they weren't especially bad or good). We tried a Cerasuolo di Vittoria (a grape particular to that area, which I've never had before or since), a grillo (a white wine common all over Sicily), and a red blend.

The best part of the visit was the young woman who runs the place with her sister, and who led the tasting and enthusiastically told us all about their winery. (She was quite fluent in English.) It does look like it's possible to reserve a tasting, and optionally, a snack or lunch, for as few as 2 people. Our lunch was antipasti (including cured meats), a bean stew, and risotto.

Thanks MJH, I will make a note of the winery.

I ran across a good price for an arrival city change from Naples to Palermo, so we decided to switch our arrival and focus the trip exclusively on Sicily. We still want to visit Naples, but we decided that we should plan a trip where Campania and southern Italy is the primary focus, which will also simplify the logistics. We also decided to push the Aeolian Islands to a future Sicily trip-we really want to spend a week (or more) in the islands, so it makes more sense to plan another trip where Lipari, et.al is the principal objective and is scheduled for more suitable dates, maybe May or June when the weather is nicer on the islands. Sicily is a convenient waypoint for reaching other islands, including Malta, so one idea is to combine a week+ in the Aeolians with another week+ in Malta, with a visit to places in Sicily we will not have time for on our upcoming trip.

Thanks again to eeryone for your assistance with this itinerary-all the information has and will be very helpful for this and upcoming trips. Mille grazie!