We’re back from our travels.  We took a few days in Sicily – we’ve already seen a lot of this island and love it.  Loads of history, you can’t chuck an olive without hitting an ancient monument or doric temple, great food and drink, friendly people and good weather.  Don’t know what more you could ask for really!

We stayed in Ortigia which is within Siracusa.  Origia is a beautiful island.  It has a wonderful array of twisty streets all lined with houses from the baroque period.  The main piazza is just gorgeous and the Duomo is a wonderful building that manages to display the many different ages of this town.  The Duomo was originally the Greek Temple of Athena and the doric columns still make up part of the building.

No more words – the pictures can speak for themselves:

The Fountain of Diana

The Fountain of Diana

Piazza del Duomo

Palazzo Beneventano Del Bosco

Palazzo Beneventano Del Bosco

We visited the Archaeological Museum – this is a Medusa mask

Fantastic Food

Did I mention the wine?

Twisty turny streets

Relaxing in the sunset!

Couldn’t resist these trees -Fangorn!!