Our first port of call in Sicily was Trapani, a town on the western edge of the island. Mainly a place for us to catch up on sleep after the overnight passage from Sardinia, but it was also a good place to get my bike fixed – finally – even if it is now a …
We woke just before 6am as it was getting light and slipped away from Porto Corallo, waving goodbye to the east coast of Sardinia and heading out across the Tyrrhenian Sea to Sicily. In our favour was a forecast of light winds and calm seas, against was the fact that this stretch of coastline had …
A delayed start to the Summer season! The first delay was in Gatwick airport, where our flight to Sardinia was delayed by ten hours. Arriving, eventually, in Cagliari, we found that the car hire desk had shut for the night, so suffered a further delay with a night in a airport hotel in the capital. …