Panarea & Stromboli

On thursday the girls of Sicily '07 decided to do a mini cruise to Panarea and Stromboli. It started off with a hour and a half bus ride, followed by another hour and a half boat ride to the first island, Panarea. The water was beautiful. Perfectly clear. You could see almost straight down to the bottom. We had 3 hours at Panarea, but the problem was, there wasn't much to do. We could have paid a few euro to take a taxi to the good beach, but we didn't bring our bathing suits because we didn't want to walk around all sweaty with the added bonus of the mediterranean sea salt sticking to our bodies. So we went out to eat and ordered our favorite dish of Sicily, pasta alla norma. However, they make it much better in Taormina. We basically sat in the shade eating magnums until it was time to go back on the ship. It took another 30 or more minutes to get to Stromboli, but I couldn't really tell you because I was so tired I fell asleep. Once we got there we had the same problem. Nothing to do. So we whne and got granite and Tina and Jessica took sand from the beach. The beach, I must say was really nice. Especially since the sand was black. We were hoping the ever-fathful volcano would erupt, but 3 months ago there was an earthquake and it hasn't erupted since. And we didn't get home till 1am. So much for that, but at least I saw two new beautiful islands that I never would have seen before.