Torre Xiare Hotel Villaggio
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Land Ahoy!
Trapani, Sicily. After our horrendous night at sea and hangover as a result of my little blue pill, (not alcohol) we ventured ashore after our late arrival into port. The skies were cloudy and the wind penetrated every part of us as we tried to navigate our way around this quaint old town, with it's baroque facades and lacy Gothic rose windows that adorn the churches and other ...
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 ...
Marsala and Erice
Nataly drops us off in Marsala for a couple of hours. Marsala is built around a photogenic Baroque old quarter of churches, palazzi and tabacceria. It's noted as the starting point of Garibaldi's war to unite Italy as one nation in 1860 and for its sweet wine, that we never manage to taste for ...
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
... 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 ...
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Amenities
- Restaurant
- Swimming pool
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Free parking