Noto is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and it's a beautiful, idyllic town, which there is little notes, that it was built on schedule, strictly on a rectangular grid and everything with light travertine. That they start the 18. Century was built, is evident from the baroque construction. It is to me personally almost too smart and too straight, than that it affects me personally. Fast so, as if the architects have deliberately put the city in the most beautiful clothes, without regard to character or personality.

Hingegen Noto Antica, the city proper was 1693 destroyed by an earthquake and thus built up again elsewhere. It is located a few kilometers away and wants to get you drive at a monastery “Santa Maria Arch” past, that since the 18 Century is no longer used as a monastery. The monastery acts, like an old 2nd world war film from the ride there and the panoramic views you get the feeling, that equal a few German SUVs could come around the corner and the monastery would be the scene of a liberation of.

Noto Antica also ideal for climbing and exploring. A watchtower seems to be still recognizable and compared with a necropolis was found, a city of the dead in the Middle Ages. In summer, this place seems to be a popular destination for Sicilians, because open grills available. Something macabre, considering, where eaten.

If out of season so we are also driven to the beach and Lido di Noto is probably one of the few sandy beaches (Vulkaninsel!). With 20 Degrees and sunshine can not go into the sea to, but sitting in the sand and enjoy the sun.

Catania I'm less enthusiastic, and I especially recommend the La Macceriella the fish market to eat. Before that you should definitely go to the bar next to it to drink an aperitif. I have rarely eaten so good fish. And the Dopo Teatro near the opera is mainly visited late at night by the Italians, to still eat fast Panini, everything is freshly grilled and fried the sausages over the pistachio rissoles. And coffee you can drink everywhere anyway, that will probably be the, what will be the worst, when I come back.

From Etna we have unfortunately seen little, as the road was closed at Etna South, due to heavy levels of snowfall and the other road was passable only with snow chains, what now not so was one of our standard equipment and I also wanted to buy any from street vendors. Nevertheless, we are stopped on the street and climbed into the lava, to collect stones. And if you go to Taormina, you can get beautiful views of Mount Etna, when he comes out again from the fog. The Etna is the only mountain world – allegedly – a ski slope with views of the sea.

Taormina is really a beautiful place and must, especially in the early summer of Isola Bella a hotspot Sicily be. In the Greek theater there are operas and the view is absolutely stunning and was also one of those moments, where you can breathe deeply and let yourself fall in a moment of tranquility and beauty of the moment.

Now I'm almost a week in Sicily and I must say, the island and I are not really warm to each other. Maybe it's because, that we do not have as much luck with the accommodations. In Catania, our apartment was a room, which was not really warm in Syracuse, although it is a real apartment, for the flow is throttled by the landlord, so that we alone on the first night at least 10 had to run down times, the backup switch again (more than two electronic devices can not cope with the circuit and hot water alone already consumed 3/4) and since today swims the bathroom, if one uses the flushing of the toilet.

And yet it is not alone. Maybe it was because, that I first met at Catania. The second-largest city in Italy, which allows it to expire so many beautiful old houses. In the old town there are more than a dilapidated ruin, you realize just, that Sicily is the poorest in Italy. Between the 30. January and the 05. February is commemorated throughout the city of St. Agata. At any corners are altars, which are worn by young men and accompanied with a loud brass bands. It's almost as, that one hopes, that they now also solves all problems, so enthusiastic and passionate is celebrated the day of worship here. Even the churches are well attended. This ritualization leaves a strange aftertaste in a city, the much more pressing problems has to solve.

Today I was ur brave, and I mean really brave. I have frustrated a pickpocket. In retrospect, my heart is indeed slipped into his trousers, meinen Puls hätte man wohl nicht messen dürfen und ich sah schon ein Messer in meinem Bauch stecken (zumindest für 5 Sekunden).

Im Zug in die City von Barcelona kam ein junger Mann telefonierend (mit altem Klapphandy – und ich schwöre, dass kann mir schon komisch vor) und stellte sich vor mich, stood opposite me,,de,Alongside My Girlfriend,,de,came as a couple,,de,he had a jacket over his arm, and thus it was not obvious,,de,that he tried to open the bag with his hand under his jacket,,de,and asked for directions,,de,since the,,de,Women had a plan in hand and therefore so have handled concentrated around,,de,The third in the league shielded the couple, and when he turned again and again in front of me and I mitbekam,,de,what was going on,,de,I had to ask myself,,de,if I wanted,,de,I'll robbed,,de,On the other hand, the men did not look after,,de,as if we could be good friends,,de,So I made the,,de,what I do best,,de,stand out,,de,I pushed against the man,,de,was loud,,de,asked my girlfriend,,de,the next was any of these things,,de 2 Women (neben meiner Freundin) als ein Pärchen kam (er hatte eine Jacke über den Arm und somit war es nicht offensichtlich, dass er versuchte mit der Hand unter der Jacke die Tasche zu öffnen) und nach dem Weg fragte, da die 2 Frauen einen Plan in der Hand hatten und somit konzentriert damit herum hantiert haben. Der dritte im Bunde schirmte das Pärchen ab und als er sich immer wieder vor mich stellte und ich mitbekam, was da ablief, musste ich mich fragen, ob ich wollte, dass ich bestohlen werde. Auf der anderen Seite sahen die Männer nicht danach aus, als ob wir gute Freunde werden könnten. Daher machte ich das, was ich am Besten kann – Auffallen!

Ich drängte mich vor den Mann, war laut, fragte meine Freundin, die daneben stand irgendwelche Sachen (the thieves will understand no German,,de,and smiled at the types of naive,,de,In his anger over my failure of the case of my friend was moved rudely,,de,but they had to leave empty-handed,,de,palpitation,,de,quite scared but also satisfaction,,de,all that was present,,de,And nevertheless,,de,I would do it again and again,,de,And the universe has rewarded me on the day,,de,I won an ice cream and,,de,Cent found in a box on-obstructive,,de,I leave for the next,,de,that we either do it right or all wrong,,de,And as if we have been waiting on it,,de,that any other woman sympathetically our lives,,de,the children from,,de,not children,,de,job,,de,not work,,de,Relationship or even relationship,,de,list incomplete,,de,consists,,de,abnickt,,de) und lächelte die Typen naiv an. In seiner Wut über meine Störung wurde der Koffer meiner Freundin unsanft verschoben, aber sie mussten unverrichteter Dinge abziehen.

Herzklopfen, durchaus Angst aber auch Genugtuung – all das war präsent. Und trotzdem, ich würde es immer wieder machen.

Und das Universum hat mich auch an dem Tag belohnt! Ich habe ein Eis gewonnen und 50 Cent in einem zu versperrenden Kästchen gefunden (die ich für den Nächsten hinterlassen habe).