5 Jan

05/09

Strong wind and cloudy weather this morning. Anyway fountain seems to have stopped but I don’t have any new about lava river. It’s is incredible like every time mr. and mrs. Adlam-Stiles arrive in hotel as guest Etna welcomes them with a spectacular eruption. This is third time and they candidate to luckiest guests of …

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4 Jan

04/09

04/09 LAST UPDATE: Stop the press! Before going to sleep I finally had a good photo. Image shows what is possible to see outside my house’s window. Thanks to Andrea Pulvirenti of IPPO Service who made photo. Please notice all those lights on Etna’s cone: Hotel is in center of highest line of lamps, not …

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4 Jan

04/10

Yesterday there were some sand launches. Today seems quiet. Weather is fantastic as usual in October. Will it be a ‘warm’ winter?

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3 Jan

2007

03/09 Explosions are now stronger and it is possible to hear them by hotel. During night strombolian activity is nice bus surely not strong as usual. 01/09 I was in “Sant’Alfio” town this night and explosions where well visible by far distance. There was no lava river but explosions’ noise come far to us. 30/08 …

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3 Jan

03/11

Tomorrow morning it will begin second edition of Etna Sky Marathon (www.volcanotrail.it). We are glad to guest this event. At higher altitude it is snowing, we hope tomorrow morning sun will help runners.

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1 Jan

2006

27/12 It’s plenty of snow! It was a white Christmas here on Etna and now there is all snow we could wish. After two good winter seasons this could be third one. 21/12 Would you like to run around our volcano? Also in answer is “absolutely not” every year there is a international event. This …

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