Baglio Santa Croce
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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?
... 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 our tour.
We look up to ornate balconies, compare chapels and browse the fishmarket with parties of schoolchildren peering at barracuda, swordfish, sardines, octopus and squid. It's a worthwhile couple of hours. Odd that the Tourist Information is but a temporary stand in a car park ...
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
... population. It's refreshing not to be bothered by hawkers, and the cool water is crystal clear, the shallows full of blue fish and the odd jellyfish drifting above the depths.
A pair of museums beside the trails describe the history of tuna fishing and growing grain for bread and pasta, including one pasta press the size of a gym horse.
A huge grotto entrance (out of ...