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Trapani

  • 12-04-2011 9:37am
    #1
    Fratton Fred
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    Has anyone been?

    We are looking for a "get away from it all" break at the end of the month, but I'm a bit worried this will be too quiet.

    Can anyone offer any advice?


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  • #2
    Owen
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    Trapani is very quiet, but it's still nice. From Trapani, you can catch a cable car up to Erice which is gorgeous - a medieval village in the mountains, or the boat to Favignana.

    If you're going for anything up to a week, it might be no harm to hire a car and go travelling Sicily. Taormina is well worth a visit, Mt Etna is too, and Agrigento's old Temples are definitely worth seeing.


  • #3
    RJunior
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    Trapani is a nice wee town and it's great to get a cheap flight to it rather than forking out for flights to Catania. Tou probably wouldn't want to spend too much time in Trapani. After Erice (which is definitely worth seeing), your best bet is to hire a car and just starting driving. We did a kind of loop of the island stopping off in places like Catellammare, Cefalu (nice beach if I remember rightly) and Messina. We got the boat over to Lipari, then back to the main island before going to Taormina (you could spend two days here) and then going down to Cattania. We drove inland then for a few days and just stopped off wherever we liked the look of before going back to Trapani to get our flight home. Mostly you'll get a nice hotel or B&B for about €70.00. We also went to Marsala which was about the only lowlight of the trip. Otherwise the food and wine and beaches are pretty spectacular.

    Overall I remember the Island being pretty quiet. I didn't notice much in the way of nightclubs or even late bars. There's a lot of couples and not many opportunities really to meet other people. Once you're in a couple, people tend not to go near you! Still though, you can have plenty of nice evening meals and get quietly liquored up on the local wines (which don't give a hangover!)

    Driving is fine as well. People seem to get freaked out about driving in Italy. Long as you try to avoid Palermo and Catania in rush hour. Otherwise you get very used to it very quickly.


  • #4
    brian77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭brian77


    Hi,

    Feel free to contact me if you need any suggestions im from there!


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