Cappuccino and Cake.

The crema on this cappuccino is molto bene!

Pistachios are in a lot of foods in Sicily, but none better than this piece of cake.

Peace!

Parking

It should come as no surprise that since the Italian drivers completely ignore most driving laws, including stop signs, their parking is a joy as well.

 Very typical park job.

 Why park on the street when you can park on the sidewalk? It also doesn't matter which way you are facing when you park.

 Best parallel parking, Italian-style.

What?? We fit in here.

Caio

Trapani

Some of the sites around Trapani. If You are looking to visit Sicily, Trapani is worth about 2 days of touristing about, especially the old town.

 View from the beach towards Sardinia.

A few pictures of the fishing boats in Trapani.

Do-it-yourself anchor.

Apparently red and blue are the colors of the day.

Three fishermen having a chat.

They bring their catch into the fish markets in those wooden boxes located on top of the boat.

View from the port back towards town.

St. Augustine's church in the old town.

Huge strangler fig trees in this park!

They engulf whatever is around them.

Torre di Ligne. Fortress used to defend Trapani from the likes of Roughwater John, the Pirate.

Fiat 500! Our favorite little wind-up car.

The wind was howling, blowing from the north, when we went to look at the salt flats. Notice my hair is blowing straight back.

The wood is used to chip at the salt, which is almost as hard as a rock.

In the early days, the windmills were used to draw the water from the sea into the holding pens so the water could evaporate.

One of the holding pens.

Looking out over another salt pen towards what was once a windmill.

Some of the salt mounds are covered in tiles.

Another Fiat 500!

Peace my friends!

Erice

Everybody and their grandmother seems to have settle in Erice (ah-reach-aye), a mountain-top town just outside of Trapani. We took a cable-car up to Erice (about 3100 feet up) to the land where the Trojans, Elymians, Syracusans, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, Normans, and Spanish (and a few others I have no doubt left out) trod in years past. Although they had to come up by donkey path as the cable-car wasn't built yet.

All of the folks built churches or other religious places and most of them remain to this day. I didn't bother to jot all of the names down, just took some interesting pictures. Enjoy!

 Pictures on the cable-car. I was shooting through plastic, so the pictures are a bit dodgy.

 View of Trapani.

 View of the salt flats. The "salt road" goes from Trapani south to Marsala. Big salt production here.

 Bunny ears.

 Look, a church!

 Intricate cobble stones.

 You looking at me?

 The fog was in and out all day.

 More in my door series.

Very intricate window in the Duomo.

 Speaking of which, the Duomo.

 Kirsty sitting by the Duomo.

 In a snicket.

 That Norman fella was building these castles all over Europe.

 Love the stone work.

 Stairs to nowhere.

 Terra Cotta pipe covering.

 Terra cotta drain pipes.

 Trapani gate.

 Built the stone wall around existing boulders.

 Another window in the Duomo.

Wood and stone.

The Trinacria, is a symbol of the Isle of Sicily. The three bent legs are supposed to represent good luck and prosperity. Trinacria means "triangle" for the shape of Sicily.  The three points represent the three capes of Sicily.

Peace my friends!!