Ciao from Sicily!

Hi everyone…we are on day 3 of our trip to Italy and thoroughly enjoying ourselves.  That is, once Ramona and I finally got here…it is a long story, but suffice to say we could not fly directly to Palermo from Rome after a flight booking error and we had to take a plane-bus-train-ferry-train-taxi to get to our hotel.  A long day!

Food highlights of the past 24 hours…

-Seeing piles and piles of fresh artichokes and fava beans at the Trapani market, along with piles and piles of fresh fish at the lively fish market next door.

-Eating the Arab-inspired fish cuscus at a restaurant last night, along with a thin-sliced wafer of compressed and dried tuna eggs on a piece of bread with a nice, fresh tomato on top.

-Sampling sweets in the sky-high town of Erice, then downing plates of gnocchi, strozzopreti and other pastas at a very pleasant restaurant in that town.  (details to follow)

-savouring all the cheeses made with sheeps milk so far, including fresh pecorino, and creamy ricotta at our breakfast this morning.

Have to run, it is Good Friday in Trapani and we are off to see the procession of the Misteri, carvings that are hundreds of years old representing the passion of Christ and the Stations of the Cross…then, more food!

Arrivderci for now,

Don