My 2 month trip to Europe includes 2 nights in Stromboli (the birthplace of my maternal grandfather who I never met) and I'm thinking of doing the climb of the volcano.
There was a travel TV show in Australia that showed a segment on it and the tour started at about 5.30pm and it took about 3-4 hours to get to the crater. The view looked amazing although one of my concerns is (and it's a ridiculously silly question), do you have to climb back down ? See, I told you it was silly ! How on earth can you (safely) climb down a volcano in the pitch dark ?
Has anyone done this trip ? Is there another way to watch the nightly eruptions ? Can you see them from a distance ?