Villa Maria Teresa
Travel Blogs from Marsala
Land Ahoy!
... We arrived at around 2.00pm and the streets were deserted as the shops close and the locals break for lunch between 12-4.00pm. Chilled by the wind and with a healthy appetite after our unsettled time at sea, we found a little local restaurant by the waterfront to sample some fresh local seafood. What a feast we had. The most delicious calamari and prawns tossed in ...
Would you like wine with dinner?
... had 3 hours of riding ahead of us. It was now 4:00 pm.
It was kind of imperative that we get to the hotel before dark as one of the motos in our group had lost the headlight low beam. We did a quick review of the remainder of the route, lopped off a portion of it and headed off. One more mountain to climb, one more castle to ride around, one more village to terrorize and we were now on the flatlands of the coast. We skirted ...
Marsala and Erice
... such as Genovesi.
At Erice's peak, the tower and turrets of 12th-century Castello di Venere look over cliffs and the lights of Trapani harbour. A brutal wind keeps us away from the edge. It's quiet in Erice this night, in this weather. I imagine it packed with coach tours on mid-summer days.
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Friends in Marsala
The wind has picked up and sand blasts the sunbathers on the beach. It's uncomfortable to laze. We're saved by a call from a former neighbour in London, Nataly, a Russian friend married to 'Nando', a Sicilian. We're invited to stay with them and their family near Marsala. We change our travel plans to head there directly.
Amidst a ...
Zingaro National Park
... the site of a megolithic tomb. A pair of Russian visitors practise tightrope walking between a pair of trees here. An easier cycle ride back gets us back to San Vito for the inauguration of the annual Couscous Festival. After a tiresome introduction of chef contributors and listing of sponsors, the show is on. We skip the main act (a name we don't know) for the side streets.
32 varieties ...
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