Here are a few snaps from our recent jaunt around Sicily. Having a car meant that not only did we get to lots of the more out of the way sites but we also now have a new found love of life - having seen it flash before our eyes on more than one occasion.
First stop on our way out of Palermo was the magical temple at Segesta, thronged with tourists but still spectacularly isolated and covered in flowers.
Sicily was incredibly lush, much greener than we expected - silly really, since so much of the fruit and veg eaten in Italy comes from Sicily all year round. The verges along all the roads were like amazing herbaceous borders. So teeming is the island with reptiles of various descriptions that this little fella even tried to jump into Rachel's pocket...
Our next stop was Selinunte. We had a massive lunch of fresh fish before tackling the ruins, which in places look like something from a Hollywood set.
Rachel doing a spot of DIY, and as human scale below:
More famous, but a little less bucolic, was Agrigento, where the temples look like they've been carved from honeycomb - it's like Crunchy World. We had heard terrible things about the modern town at Agrigento but, even though it looks rather ominous from down in the valley, we thought the historic centre was really nice, especially for an evening stroll.
Such BEAUTIFUL photos! x
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