Cristina's and Angelo's house is a two-store small house with a lovely balcony facing east, overlooking the neighbours little garden,a pair of rooftops, the rail tracks and the breathtakingly beautiful Ionian Sea. The balcony is sunny the entire morning, while cool and shady in the warm afternoons. In the evening, you have a wonderful view to the moon rising. Acireale is a nice town with an overwhelming amount of churches and good restaurants, and when we visited (in May), we found almost no other tourists in the area. Messina, Taormina, Siracusa are all an easy train ride away - or an easy drive if you have a car.