July 5 Lipari Sicily Italy

 

 (I should mention that on July 4 we visited Pozzallo Italy. It was HOT and after walking about twenty minutes into town it became overwhelming. We found a taxi and came back to the ship. No pictures.)

Lipari is a city and an island just north of Sicily. We took the Highlights excursion and were treated to scenic drive over the volcanic mountains of the island.

  This was a tender port, so we rode the tender/lifeboat ashore to this promenade. That's the cathedral and archeological museum up above.

 We had to walk for 15 minutes through the main street of Lipari to get to the bus station. The roads were much too windy and narrow to get the buses to the port.

As we start our climb through the island we can look back to the cathedral that overlooks the port.

An overlook giving us a view of Isola di Volcano. The current caldera is at the top of the distant island you can see some fumes arising from a portion of the rim nearest us.

Not visible is another neighboring island, Stromboli. There was no Calzone Island. 

At the other end of Lipari we have a view of Isola di Salina. Just traveling to this location was an adventure as the road winds and switchbacks up and down the hills. And it's about 1.5 lanes wide. When encountering traffic it was a careful dance to get past.

A wall of crumbly pumice just above the beach.

The interior of the island.