O.k. since this was my 7th visit to Sicily, (I think), Carlo promised to show me a new part of this beautiful island! Yay...So off we went on a three day, two night road trip to the baroque cities in the southeast of the island. We braved the hot temps (in the upper 90's that is almost 40degrees C!)
We started our tour in the city of Noto, where we also spent the night in a hotel in the mountains. "Masseria degli ulivi" which was an extended and converted farmhouse with many new additions and luxurious things like an infinity pool, new bathrooms, a/c and a delicious menu... unfortunately we were left with no a/c during the night and Carlo even set off to find someone of the hotel to assist us at 2:30 AM in the morning! To no avail, we were roasting in our room, even though the cool mountain air was lovely. As we had no window, but only two large french doors, which we did not feel comfortable to leave open, as any mouse other other small critter could have taken up shelter in our room, we opted for leaving the bathroom window open. During the night a small bird must have used the towel holder as its night time roosting spot and we found its marks in the morning!
The owner of the hotel was quite unapologetic for the non-funtioning air conditioning unit and only gave us a 10 Euro discount. Tired and a bit frustrated we set off for a long day of driving through the sicilian country side with two more cities on our radar...
On our first afternoon we visited a natural reserve with an old Tuna cannery....and spent a few relaxing hours at the beach.
All the seagrass was rolled into these little turds! It was funny!
Very cool underground water and grain storage spaces and maybe even sleeping quarters. It was like having a/c in there!
Ancient rock carvings with holes possibly for lights or storage...
Lizard peeking over the wall!
One last picture and we were on our way to Modica...
