THE LAST VISITORS
THE ENCHANTED GARDEN, SEGESTA, ERICE
Carl and Claudia from California are here this week, the last of a group of guests that have been here since we got back from Mexico. We have stayed with them the last two summers when we went out to San Francisco, and we were glad to return their wonderful hospitality. A few memorable things have happened while they were here.
Just before my dad and Ang left, we saw a fire truck and several firemen at Paolos house. We drove up to investigate, and he explained that there had been some problems with the wall collapsing. The next day we saw that our road home along the beach was closed because the wall looked like it was going to come down at any time. Since then we have been taking the old short cut, a twisty, turny road that borders the sea. There was barely enough room for one car and it was a two way street. So we blew the horn at each blind corner. This morning, Claudia got out of the car and took a picture of the road to immortalize the memory. And on our way home from our days adventures today, we saw that a grader truck had come along the road, at least clearing off the roadside weeds and eliminating some blind corners.
Another misadventure-we took a walk at sunset point, and we think that is where Carl managed to pick up a tick. Ive seen one other, on Giusys dog Negrita last year, but I was still surprised. We called Dr. Gaspare, and he did not seem too concerned-just told us to take Carls temperature daily. Thats something we manage to do while we sit around nights playing Scopa. Sometimes we have a little trouble adding to 10. Carl and Steve continue to relive their youth with attempts to write poetry to share with the other guy from their high school-days threesome, Rick
We saw the Enchanted Castle in Sciacca, a place with many heads that were made by a man when he went mad. Too bad they all looked so much alike, but it was a lot of fun on a beautiful day to wonder the olive and almond grove. After, we enjoyed the Tastes of Sicily at Perrones. As usual, we ate too much and spent too much.
Segesta was next on the agenda today, and it was as beautiful as always. The new theater reconstruction is great, and much more believable than the Taormina theater, which has red brick all over it from centuries of reconstruction efforts. The flowers were gorgeous again. I cannot seem to stop taking pictures of those valleys and views, so please bear with me-the spring display is almost over. We eagerly await the summer production schedule to plan to view a play in that gorgeous theater.
We hit Erice as a weather front started to slide through the area, and the clouds flew past us on the hillside. The castles were great as always and the Sicilian donkey cart driver that gave mouth harp lessons was fun to watch. The little horse was NOT having a good time though. They have moved the crane working on the Venus Castle, so I have hopes of some day soon getting inside of that place.
Carl and Claudia from California are here this week, the last of a group of guests that have been here since we got back from Mexico. We have stayed with them the last two summers when we went out to San Francisco, and we were glad to return their wonderful hospitality. A few memorable things have happened while they were here.
Just before my dad and Ang left, we saw a fire truck and several firemen at Paolos house. We drove up to investigate, and he explained that there had been some problems with the wall collapsing. The next day we saw that our road home along the beach was closed because the wall looked like it was going to come down at any time. Since then we have been taking the old short cut, a twisty, turny road that borders the sea. There was barely enough room for one car and it was a two way street. So we blew the horn at each blind corner. This morning, Claudia got out of the car and took a picture of the road to immortalize the memory. And on our way home from our days adventures today, we saw that a grader truck had come along the road, at least clearing off the roadside weeds and eliminating some blind corners.
Another misadventure-we took a walk at sunset point, and we think that is where Carl managed to pick up a tick. Ive seen one other, on Giusys dog Negrita last year, but I was still surprised. We called Dr. Gaspare, and he did not seem too concerned-just told us to take Carls temperature daily. Thats something we manage to do while we sit around nights playing Scopa. Sometimes we have a little trouble adding to 10. Carl and Steve continue to relive their youth with attempts to write poetry to share with the other guy from their high school-days threesome, Rick
We saw the Enchanted Castle in Sciacca, a place with many heads that were made by a man when he went mad. Too bad they all looked so much alike, but it was a lot of fun on a beautiful day to wonder the olive and almond grove. After, we enjoyed the Tastes of Sicily at Perrones. As usual, we ate too much and spent too much.
Segesta was next on the agenda today, and it was as beautiful as always. The new theater reconstruction is great, and much more believable than the Taormina theater, which has red brick all over it from centuries of reconstruction efforts. The flowers were gorgeous again. I cannot seem to stop taking pictures of those valleys and views, so please bear with me-the spring display is almost over. We eagerly await the summer production schedule to plan to view a play in that gorgeous theater.
We hit Erice as a weather front started to slide through the area, and the clouds flew past us on the hillside. The castles were great as always and the Sicilian donkey cart driver that gave mouth harp lessons was fun to watch. The little horse was NOT having a good time though. They have moved the crane working on the Venus Castle, so I have hopes of some day soon getting inside of that place.
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