Petrol Strike Italy 08/11/2011 – 11/11/2011 : Car hire Italy : Italy petrol station

Update Nov 2011 : another petrol strike in Italy from today 8/11/11 from 19:30 till 11/11/11 at 07:00 if you are travel in Italy and have a car hire italy then plan holiday italy accordingly.

Holiday in Italy this week. Hired a car ? Please note that there is a national 2 day petrol strike in Italy this Wednesday 8^th July and Thursday 9th July, which means that as from Tuesday 7^th evening 19:30 till Thursday evening same time you cannot get petrol.

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Ryanair online check in changes

Ryanair europes low cost airline connects Italy to many European destinations and is even worth considering for domestic internal flights in Italy.

These cheap flights give great opportunities to those who buy a house in Italy and then rent a house in Italy to others.

Ryanair has as of today changed its online check in procedures. The 10 euro/sterling charge previously paid for those that checked in the traditional way has now been cancelled !!! Because with Ryanair as from today you CANNOT check in at the airport. You MUST do online check in before your flight starting 14 days prior till 40 mins before scheduled departure. Those with luggage (not hand luggage) will have to use a new drop off service.

POST your personal experiences of this drop off service here in the comments below.

Hidden in the small print of the press release is that from TODAY we will all be charged a 5 euro online check in fee !! Ryanair saves money closing the check in desks YET raises the charges of online check in !!!

Ryanair OnAir mobile service

Though we can’t criticise Ryanair as yesterday on an internal Italian flight I had the opportunity to use the new on flight ryanair mobile OnAir service. Yes you can be in the clouds and call/text your loved ones to tell them where you are !! or as the Ryanair press release stated to tell them that “yet another Ryanair flight is on time”.

Italian Holiday Villa for Sale in Sicily, Italy.

Scopello, Castellamare del Golfo, Trapani, (west Palermo) Sicily.

Palermo (PMO) airport 30 mins / Trapani (TPS) airport 30 mins.
3 bedroom holiday villa located near lo Zingaro nature reserve and close to Scopello. Set in mature private gardens, with patio overlooking the sea and Read the rest of this entry »

Trapani (Birgi) Airport TPS Sicily

Updated summer 2011.

Trapani airport (TPS) is fastly expanding and becoming the gateway to south west sicily, Trapani, Marsala, Salemi, Scopello, Segesta and the Egadi Islands. Historically a military airport. With Ryanair operating flights from here since last year, the airport has transformed Read the rest of this entry »

Scandinavian Sicilan Project Monte Polizzo Salemi Sicily NIU

As from the 25th May 2009 the Northern Illinois University will be present in Salemi at Monte Polizzo for a month long archaeological dig. The study abroad program is Read the rest of this entry »

Palermo Airport PMO Sicily Italy

Palermo airport is the International gateway into West Sicily. Please also consider flying in to Trapani airport (TPS) for visiting West Sicily (45 mins from PMO), now serviced by Ryanair from over 25 destinations. Catania airport is great for the Sicilian east coast. (3 hours drive from PMO). All 3 airports are in Sicily if you are looking for nearest airport to Sicily.

Flights to PMO from Germany by AirBerlin

Follows a brief introduction to PMO to help you with your onward travels. Read the rest of this entry »

Easter in Sicily

Next weekend is Easter. Good Friday 10 April and Easter Sunday falls on 12th April.

Looking for an interesting weekend ?

Why not join MIPC visiting the 1 euro property in Salemi offer. There is a weekend of events to learn all about Discovering Salemi.

Starting on Good Friday through to Easter Sunday in Salemi and then highly recommended is to spend Easter Sunday in Trapani, there is  a spectacular procession…

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Fly America to Italy.

Further to your many requests about flights from America to Italy and onward flights to Sicily to visit Salemi for the MIPC Discovering Salemi trip, If you can’t get a direct flight to Palermo(PMO)then I would recommend that you fly to Italy mainland hubs, like Rome, Milan Malpensa or even via London or Paris, then make a connecting flight to Palermo(PMO) or Trapani(TPS) in Sicily.

For transatlantic flight to Italy Book on Eurofly
Eurofly has scheduled direct flights from New York JFK to Palermo (Falcone Borsellino) & viceversa.
For details visit Eurofly
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MIPC Discovering Salemi

MIPC have organised a series of individual weekend trips to help you visit and start Discovering Salemi.

Why not join David from MIPC in Salemi for one of these weekend trips when he will introduce you

to the Salemi town centre, visit the1 euro properties, meet some of the locals, visit the Salemi council

offices and view some other Salemi properties currently on the market.

If a weekend in Sicily is too short then why not take a well deserved break and

book a holiday in Sicily with MIPC and include the

Discovering Salemi in your holliday and property search in Sicily. MIPC have lots of Villas for

rental all across Sicily for your holiday. Email MIPC for further details. Whilst on holiday MIPC

will be available to help you view other properties in Sicily, including the Lo Scopello area

(an up and coming popular tourist destination), Trapani, Tre Fontane, Cefalu, Noto, Sciacca,

Siracusa and many other destinations.

The MIPC Discovering Salemi trips take place over the following dates:

Easter in Salemi, Sicily : 10th April to 12th April

1st MAy to 3rd May

22nd May to 24th May

Goto MIPC Discovering Salemi for further details.

Mokarta archaeology:

This morning a beautiful spring day here in Sicily, with the sun shining it’s already 15’C. Its been along winter, but finally morning walks are a pleasure. I had heard about the Mokarta archaeology site but never been to visit, so this morning it was a great excuse to get in to the coutryside. No expert in archaeology i didn’t know what to expect, who to see or what… Yes I have already visited Selinunte and Segesta but the local Mokarta, Monte Polizzo and Contrada Pittrazzi  had so far evaded my attention.

In the process of optimising the photos, but meanwhile if you want to do a little research about archaeology in Salemi, Trapani, South West Sicily follow some of these links. If your due to visit here for an archaelogical dig in Salemi, Sicily then let me know, i’d love to hear from you and learn more.

Mokarta

Monte Polizzo

Contrada Pittrazzi