Mount Etna
This view of Mount Etna was taken from Taormina.
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Mountain road
This steep road leads from the port of Messina to the town of Taormina, through the foothills of Mount Etna. The coach I travelled on passed along the roads you see here minutes before I took the photo.
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Leaving the port of Livorno, there was a long harbour wall with several lighthouses along its length. This is one of them.
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This translates to “old bridge”, which is precisely what you see. The bridge crosses the river Arno in Florence.
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As we left the port of Livorno, the sun set and turned the sky a remarkable shade of red.
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Of course, no holiday in Italy would be complete without a photo of the Leaning Tower of Pisa – called the Banana Tower by the locals, as not only is it leaning, it is curved thanks to efforts by builders in centuries gone by who added more levels to the already leaning tower (which used […]
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The port of Livorno is very large and very busy, with huge piles of containers and other cargo around.
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