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Would you like wine with dinner?
... restaurant perched on a bluff overlooking the sea. Spectacular view. Absolutely spectacular. After taking numerous photos of the view and of each other we settled down for an amazing seafood lunch. The antipasti platter included everything that swims, slithers or just sits in the sea: Shrimp, fish, octopus, squid, urchin, and mussels. All amazingly fresh and tasty. We ate, we talked, we laughed and we forgot about time and the fact that ...
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 ...
Marsala
Rien de bien spécial ici. Beaucoup de magasins mais pas beaucoup de sites intéressants avec une valeur historique. On partira d'ici sans trop de regrets. Il fait si chaud et c'est si peu intéressant que nous avons décidé de nous rendre à l'aéroport plus tôt que prévu et d'attendre notre vol dans le confort de la climatisation. Nous avons tous les deux hâte d'arriver à Malte. Nous appréhendons aussi un peu notre arrivée puisque Patricia a reçu un courriel aujourd'hui à ...
Eating in Salemi
... Today Ignazia and her children are here for Sunday dinner and Paulo is scheduled to come later after he has finished with today's work of harvesting the wheat with his new threshing machine (it has an airconditioned cab).
Here tomorrow and then we're planning to go to Noto for two days, about a four hour drive. It's a UN historical site of Baroque architecture.
Mom will more later .All well. Thanks for the emails and pictures.
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Stones from 2700 years ago
... and rebuilding. The temple at Segesta was started around 420BC and never finished due to yet another war. It never had a roof on and still has its building projections on the stones as they were never chiselled off. Segesta is in a lovely mountainous place, and on the hill opposite the temple is a Greek theatre and the remains of 2000 years of rebuilding until the Medieval village and castle was deserted in the 13th C. When I arrived there were dozens ...