Palermo Travel Guide

In general I don't really like Italy. There is to hot and humid for me. I'm definetelly Northern Girl ;-) Like snow, winter and minus 20 degrees outside. But I don't like Palermo not only because I don't feel good in a Southern countries. This city stinks... because of mountains of trash everywhere and not only cause of this. We were sleeping one night in a petty burgoise house- it's so hard to find anything else when you're travelling by car around the Europe and try to get a place in a hostel in the middle of the night. So we found four rooms in Italian burgoise house. It was a bit expensive for us, but what else we can do? Woman who rent us these rooms was a fucking bitch, so we decided to move out from her house after a one night. She was shouting on us, said that we're stupid Polish. She was so surprised when we started to pack our things and leader of a team said that he'll pay only for one room, cause she costed us a lot- in mental meaning. :-) After this strange story we found small old house in a village and spend there very nice 4 days with peasants. They were great!

Better take care if drawing money from a bancomat, have look around, especially at night. On your sightseeing tours round the center, it is better to leave all your bags, wrist watches and expensice cameras at home, do not act so much as a tourist, better wear simple jeans and take with you only a little money within your jeans pockets. Traffic is incredible in Palermo, better do not rent any motorbikes as it is really dangerous on the busiest streets. Around one and a half hour from Palermo by car on the north shore there is a beautiful nature protection area. People may access the park only by walking (no cars or motorbikes allowed, you can rent a bike or use a donkey), also boats are not allowed to approach near the coast. Therefore the nature and the seaside remain incredibly beautiful, a high botanical variety according to the "macchia mediterranea", but also rare plants, the sea is full of fish if you go snorkelling. You may rent a little hut without electricity, where of course you will receive wood for fire and candels and gas lamps.