I had planned on driving straight through to Trapani following small mountain roads through Corleone:
The locals had advised us to go round the big road through Agrigento, but the weather was OK, and I decided to chance it and hope for the best. It couldn't be much worse than what we already encountered... It turned out fine, with a few hairy spots, mostly because the Garmin Girl kept trying to put us on impossibly narrow and bad shortcuts... She almost got thrown out of the window, AGAIN!
In fact, things went so well that we had time to stop in Segesta to see the Temples and the Theatre, and in Erice to see the old town and the Castle:
The AirBnB apartment turned out great, just like the pictures, very Italian Moderne, and located at the extreme point where the old city juts into the sea:
It is in an old building with fabulous high arched ceilings, a great wide bed, two bathrooms, a nice kitchen, which Rachel immediately put to use with our left overs from the previous night augmented with a frozen fish soup we had picked up on the way at a supermarket. Delicious!
More to morrow.
The locals had advised us to go round the big road through Agrigento, but the weather was OK, and I decided to chance it and hope for the best. It couldn't be much worse than what we already encountered... It turned out fine, with a few hairy spots, mostly because the Garmin Girl kept trying to put us on impossibly narrow and bad shortcuts... She almost got thrown out of the window, AGAIN!
In fact, things went so well that we had time to stop in Segesta to see the Temples and the Theatre, and in Erice to see the old town and the Castle:
We then climbed a narrow winding road to the citadel of Eurice, way up on top of a rock, with an impregnable view of the interior on one side, and the coastline on the other:
We still made it to Trapani early, and had to wait a while to get the keys to "our" apartment. I walked around and got some pictures of the wonderful Trapani bay at sunset, with the waves hitting hard from the West:
The AirBnB apartment turned out great, just like the pictures, very Italian Moderne, and located at the extreme point where the old city juts into the sea:
It is in an old building with fabulous high arched ceilings, a great wide bed, two bathrooms, a nice kitchen, which Rachel immediately put to use with our left overs from the previous night augmented with a frozen fish soup we had picked up on the way at a supermarket. Delicious!
More to morrow.
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