Our 2nd trip to Sicily and it just so happens that the local football team would be starting their season off playing at home, we had seen the ground on a previous visit to Taormina a couple of years ago on a trip down to the nearest beach, a journey which involves a cable car ride from the edge of Taormina down and over the Stadio Valerio Bacigalupo. on arrival late on the Friday night there had been quite a lot of rain and when it rains in Sicily it rains! Saturday morning we ventured down to for a coffee and a bit of something to eat and i enquired at the reception about how to get to the short cut down some steps to the stadium entrance, the stadium itself was probably 5 minutes walk away from our hotel, the lad on reception drew me a quick map so we were sorted, we went to sit outside in the bar area and the heavens opened and it rained and rained and for want of a better word it was Biblical and it kept on raining so we ended up back in our room, the terrace outside our room started to flood and it was just about an inch away from entering our room. Come midday it was still raining so we ended up sitting in the bar area, i looked on Instagram at the teams page and the below image came up, FFS only in italy can this happen! apparently the safety certificate hadn't been obtained in time to open the ground so the game was going to be played behind closed doors, we thought about going down and watching through the fence but was told that you cant see much of the pitch from street level from outside and the best vantage point would be the Cable car area but we would be moved on due to safely reasons.
We decided anyway to venture out even though it was raining and the streets were flooded, there was water cascading down the steps in the main town Centre, but anyway we ended up totally soaking wet but had a couple of drinks sat outside a bar underneath a tin roof with rain running of the edge of it and down the alley, the torrential rain didn't seem to put off the mix of locals and tourists. Hopefully another time eh??
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