Grand Hotel delle Terme
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Valley of the Dolls
Buonasera!
Another amazing day of riding. I know, I'm sounding like a broken record, but, think about it: I’m in Sicily riding a motorcycle with great old and new friends. It can’t help but be amazing.
As you might expect, the City of Marsala is where the wine comes from. Our ride out of town took us through vineyards that are the oldest in Italy: over 1,000 years old. Impressive. Fortunately, today’s ride was pretty ...
The temples of Agrigento
... was the main reason for my visit to Sicily. After 20 minutes futile wait for a bus, then the discovery that we can't buy tickets aboard (you have to get them from a kiosk nearby), we decide to walk. It's possible, at about 3km, but inadvisable in the 34șC heat of today. And once on site, there's little shade. Only a light wind from the coast cools us and we ...
Valley of Temples
... the car. We stopped on the side of the highway and discovered that we had a bad air leak from the right front tire. We had run over a screw and the evidence was still in the tire. We turned around, found a service station, put in lots of air, and headed back to Syracusa. With a little ingenuity we were able to find the local Hertz office but they didn’t have a replacement car. The closest Hertz with a car was an hour away ...
The Valley of the Temples
... and have, as with the temples, fallen into various states of "ruin" over the ages - at one stage being filled in completely. They have now been transformed to their original state, based on historical records, and are filled with lush orchards of citrus (lemons, limes, oranges, etc) and various other fruits, watered by ancient aquifers, water channels and natural springs. It was a beautiful little retreat from the heat and the crowds that had started to appear ...
Agrigento
... least three hours to do this because we kept stopping to get some shade and cool off. Once we had enough of the heat we headed back into town. When we got back to the B&B Antonella gave us some homemade lemon granita. Awesome! And she also helped us find accommodation and work out the bus schedule for the next day.
That night we got hungry and had none of our food stash left so we tried to find a supermarket, we were unsuccessful so we went and sat down at a ...
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