Category: Italy

Thunderstorm

The unbearable heat of yesterday inevitably made place for a thunderstorm.  The rain is welcome to wash the dust away and is also a good time to test our rain equipment.  We stopped in...

We welcome the sunset.

We are enjoying a glass of local wine listening to a cricket concert.   During the day it is to hot to do anything.  So we start living like the locals, except that we...

KriPa @ Corleone

Today we had our dose of hairpin roads:-)

Even some single track ones in heavy traffic in the mountains surrounding Palermo.

Not for the faint-hearted. Luckily we are not here with our “big” truck but even then our Land cruiser is about twice as large as the average Sicilian car.  

We stopped for the night in central Sicily a few km’s south of Corleone.

KriPa arrived @ sicily

We had a lovely weekend @ Willy’s Treffen were we catched up with old friends.  On sunday we boarded the ferry @Genua towards Palermo.  We had a pleasant ferry crossing which took 19 hours...