Ragusa, Italy

... vineyards and orchards and absolute magnificence. Rick Steve's should lose all book-writing privileges for leaving Sicily out of his Italy 2009 book. Idiota! I realize I didn't blog much from Venice, just posted photos from the cruise. Venice was loverly. ...

Someone with a love for stairs built Ragusa! The bus dropped us in the car park and we walked up the stairs then up very winding cobbled roads to St. Georgies church. There we got our meet up instructions and dispersed. Deb & I went to the art shop and ...

... I figured it would be faster. Nope. I only saved myself about 30 minutes (because apparently direct just means that the final destination is Ragusa, it still stops at the other 90 or so little stops). Anyway, half-way home I figured I might miss my bus to ...

... everything I'm taking under the seat, on the pannier and in my backpack, and set off one fine sunny Tuesday morning for Ragusa. It's glorious riding a motor scooter and I scoot through Avola, stop in Noto for an almond granita and some photos, get slightly ...