Easter in Sicily

We just returned from easter week in Sicily!

 Etna on horseback!

 My horse for the day: Eletra.

 We were very lucky with the weather and Mt. Etna at 2000 Meters seemed glorious!

 Easter Monday at Faro!

 Carlo and his friend Renato

 Marina and little Sofia!

Flora and Sofia -  and last but not least Carlo and I with Sofia! :-)

 Sofia is sooo cute!

Last night having an Aperitivo with Antonio Visco.

Christmas in Sicily!

After an odysee rivaling homer's quest, we finally arrived in Messina and were able to spend the holidays with Carlo's family. Little Sofia was the highlight of it all!!!

Sofia and Flora

The best present of all!!!

Cute as a button!

I was still stuck with the flu....

Pit stop in Malta!

The snow chaos in London left us with few options to arrive in Sicily for Christmas on time.

We decided to take drastic measures and booked a business class ticket with Air Malta to Malta -no stopovers etc.! The next day we would then continue our treck to Catania, Sicily.

This meant we would not be able to return to Munich in order to gather christmas presents and stock up on clothes...but with the chaos in London complete, we were glad to have escaped the cold and grey...

Malta was sunny and relatively warm. For us at that moment a very welcome change!

The WHITE CLIFFS of Dover, England!

Flying high above Sicily on the way to Malta!

Gulf of Palermo, Sicily

Mt. Etna in the distance!

Once we had almost arrived, we were able to laugh again!

Crossing Sicily to land in Malta (a speck in the water, not even seen yet)

Sunset in Sliema, Malta from our hotel.

View across the city towards the sea.

View across the harbor to Valetta, the capital with the huge dome. (UNESCO world heritage site)

Jellyfish seem to be a problem here too...

The busses seemed out of a different time! They were!

British architecture meets mediterranean!

On our way to the airport the next day - to fly to Sicily.