Back to being tourists again …
Twenty years ago in a February issue of a UK glossy magazine I read a travel article about alternative Valentine’s Day destinations away from the popular most obvious ones and that was how I discovered Taormina in Sicily. With my long standing love of all things Italian and my husband's love of gangster movies it seemed like the perfect destination for us. Me being me I started researching and booked a flight to Catania and a hotel nestled between Giardini Naxos and Taormina. As soon as we saw Mount Etna out of our airplane window and stepped foot on the airport tarmac it was instantly love at first sight and so when we returned back to London we booked another trip and then another trip and then another trip until in 2007 we decided we loved everything about Sicily so much that we wanted to live there and so we bought a house in Giardini Naxos. Having a house in Sicily gives us the best of two worlds, we get to live the Sicilian way of life and still see Sicily with a tourists ey