Sogni di Sicilia

Awake at 6:15. Early for me.  A quick scrub-up, as the kitchen needed it, then I booked the airport hotel, who confirmed during my call that their shuttle doesn't begin until 5:00 am. But they'll call a taxi. If we were backpackers, we'd just make the 10-minute walk to the airport, but we have heavy luggage, and that will be troublesome at 4:30 in the morning. Have you seen me at 4:30 in the morning? I barely function. I then took some time once Joe was up, to begin systemizing my luggage downstairs. After a quick shower, it's nearly noon. I need a walk or something. I think I had 27 steps total yesterday. And two pieces of torta. I decided to peruse via Gemma by daylight. It just runs for a short stretch. I checked out the Vende  posts. Not for sale, but I've always wanted a banister like this. This place looks in good shape It's hard to judge a book by its cover in Italy I thought it was cute that this little guy was out on venerdì pesce . The smells from the ...

Today, I wanted to go to Scandura. The service is "ottimo," the caffè and pasticcini  are excellent, the restaurant and pizzeria are top-notch, the setting is adorable, and they make their own chocolate. Is it perhaps heaven? For me, yes. I destroyed the fanciful heart design they made on my cappuccino before I took a picture of it. The pastry and tavola calda station, behind the high top with cute stools. On the way there, as always these days, I'm on the lookout for houses for sale. There are two ways to reach Scandura; we took the slightly longer way there, up via Cristoforo Colombo, far past the serial killer property we saw with the realtor. I noticed some changes since the spring, most notably the changed property that was once weeds and garbage. The weedy plot is now a track and field area for, I'm assuming, the school next door. The scent of these fills the air. I described this pretty, rocky edifice in an earlier post. Too bad the best views of it is from an ...