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Land Ahoy!
... lightly fried followed by fresh pasta with mussels and seafood were devoured quickly. The calamari was sweet and tender and possibly the best We have ever eaten. This was accompanied with a bottle of local Sicilian white wine and a complimentary lemoncello. We headed back to the ship with full bellies and light heads, which led to an afternoon nap. As we set sail for ...
Would you like wine with dinner?
... our way up the side of one of the mountains surrounding Palermo and through small villages. I made one small navigation error and we ended up heading back into the village we had just left. More driving the wrong way on one-way streets, steep downhill turns on narrow streets, more women yelling at us, more waves and smiles from us. After 2 hours of navigating twisty mountain roads, over hill and dale, through lovely valleys and ...
Marsala and Erice
... of the proud gates.
In the evening, we're driven to the medieval hill town of Erice. The hairpin roads wind up to a park and car-free cobbles and flagstones between ceramic stores and pasticcerias offering marzipan fancies. The most famous is Maria Grammatico's where we devour ...
Friends in Marsala
... pizza and the chance to wash away a day's worth of dust and sand.
Their home is large and filled with heirlooms, rugs and original courtly paintings. The garden is an olive grove and orchard. Dinner tonight is called in a augmented by delicious home-marinated olives, and wine provided by the family.
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Zingaro National Park
... of park in Sicily is the one area most burnt to a crisp.
Almost all of the landscape is charred. Palms are recovering, green fans peep from black trunks. Grass emerges, some with blonde and black quills mimicking the native porcupine. Lizards feast on rotting, fallen prickly pears. We see little other wildlife.
The two pebbly beaches we're allowed on are busy with ...