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Hanging with the Mafia!
... for our ferry to Sardinia, we spent the evening chatting and enjoying the atmosphere; Rhys also ate his fair share of Sicilian olives.
30/10/12
Our last day on Sicily…We Spent the morning once again lazing around, drinking coffee and eating breakfast before leaving our stuff at the B&B and hoofing it into town. Palermo is quite a cool town, apparently still heavily controlled by the mafia, the streets are a maze of narrow alleys flanked by ...
Another Day, Another Sicily
... and narrow cobblestone streets to negotiate. This small medieval town was founded in 415 B.C., and renowned in ancient times as an important sanctuary of Venus. Although we are told it is often shrouded in mist due to its hilltop location, today Erice offers splendid views of the sea and Egadi Islands under clear skies. The haze on the lands below partially obscures what would be an otherwise amazing view. It seems to me that the Sicilians ...
Palermo and Monreale
... walkway around the cathedral domes. From here you can see right across to the port of Palermo and coastal towns beyond.
Less impressive (much else is) is Palermo's Duomo, an Arabesque Norman beast, turned to something less harmonious by the addition of 18th-century domes. The grand exterior hides a vast but vacant interior with private chapels including one ...
Back in Cefalù
... a lift back to Cefalù for the day. The wind is up here and surfers are able to make the most of the waves. It's an enjoyable completing of our circuit of Sicily's west but hard to escape from.
Having arranged to get picked up one station away at Campofelice, we head to the train station in plenty of time. The ticket office and bar ...
Agrigento Archaeological Museum to Terre di Himere
... in the distance. As with Zingaro, there have been many deliberate fires. This season is much hotter than usual. As we leave our room for dinner, the fire across the valley has spread across the hill, appearing, in the dark as the edge of a lava flow. The wind is pushing it away from us, and a road separates us from the fields but we kept an eye on its progress all evening, with some couples putting ...
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