Volcano alert!

We spent the day in Taormina - where Truman Capote wrote "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and Tennessee Williams wrote "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". The town is built like a lasagna with many layers: a town with Roman Ruins, Greek ruins on top of that: Norman, Arab, Medieval layers - all surrounded by the Ionian Sea, the NAXOS Bay and in the shadow of Mt. Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe. The building materials from one era are used in subsequent times. This afternoon there were some ashes falling from the sky and I was certain that we were experiencing an eruption. It turns out that Friday must be "Burn your trash day" because there were little fires all over the hillside below our hotel.