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Travel Blogs from San Vito lo Capo
Land Ahoy!
... the Captain once again announced the sailing conditions. Although much brighter, but far from normal seas, I felt compelled to give the wristbands for seasickness a try. After a beautiful dinner of goats cheese soufflé with garlic cream sauce, crispy baked chicken and a show in the club lounge, I slept like a baby to the gentle rock of the ship, nursing my wristbands as I ...
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 ...
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 ...
San Vito lo Capo
... Zingaro National Park is part closed off. The tinder-dry weather and brisk winds raise the chances of forest fire. We can't find transport their today anyway, so we hit the beach again. Most tours to Zingaro go by boat and allow visitors to swim towards the bays rather than hike the trails. It's overcast today, with fewer visitors but just as many hawkers, offering massage, bracelets, sarongs, coconuts and inflatables.
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Cefalù to San Vito Lo Capo
... confections and manna (actually sap from the ash tree). A band play a medley of O Sole Mio and New York New York.
We're staying 10 minutes out of town at Villa Ancora. The father of the proprietor, and land owner, who tends to a veg garden at the rear, is rightly proud of his homestead in the town he has spent all his life, close to the massive pyramid of Mont Monaco and in view of the sea.
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