After a reasonable breakfast (Italian of course) we set off from our B&B today to explore Ortigia Island. Beautiful day and we really saw it at it's best. Lovely old sandstone buildings, ruins of Apollo Temple, partly restored fort at the foot of the island (very Moorish in look) . Streets and laneways cleaner than what we have seen before today. Still lots of tourists around but prices are much less than the mainland. Interesting to note that the facult...

We had breakfast at our B&B in Agrigento old town and set off quite early for the Valley of the Temples just 5 minutes out of town. Lucky first Sunday of the month is free so no entry fee for us but there were guys there offering their services as guides in English for Euro60 which is nearly $100 and that is what we paid for our accommodation at a very nice B&B. We did not accept their offer and instead took a brochure and guided ourselves. The weathe...

We had a relative easy drive from Cefalu to Agrigento today via Enna which is the centre of Sicily and also situated on top of a mountain. Unfortunately the weather was overcast with a lot of fog so visibility was limited. We stopped in Caltanissetta where we had a coffee (not too much to see there). Enna was a typical mountain town where it takes a while to get there and then a while to get out as you are constantly winding in and out of narrow cobblestone st...

An easy drive to Cefalu from Palermo just over an hour and we took pot luck with accommodation and were lucky this time to happen upon on a beachfront B&B which had a last minute cancellation so we checked in and headed for the old town where once again we were lucky and found this amazing wine bar with a sandstone enclosed verandah right on the beach where we had excellent wine with cheese and salami as well as a selection of pesto and some bread. Then we h...

Spent the whole of Thursday in transit from Barcelona to Palermo flying via Roma. All went well with meeting Erika at the airport in Palermo and we were picked up by Margherita and Salvo who were our Airbnb hosts. They took us to the apartment that we had rented for the night - right in the middle of the Arab Norman quarter. This really gave us an insight into life in downtown Palermo - a little basic but fine for the night as it was clean and comfortable. Ma...