Yummy Sicily

We both returned significantly heavier from our recent trip to Sicily - good job we got the train home instead of the plane! The man in the photo above is trying to roll Rachel's lunch into a pannino!

For produce, nowhere in Italy can beat Sicily. The markets are simply overflowing with amazing things and all of the fruit and veg looks like it has been on steroids - zucchini as long as your arm! Tomatoes as big as Rachel. Here are some photos from the mad Ballaro market in Palermo; for shots of the brilliant fish-market at Catania have a look at Rachel's blog.





Here are a few of the best things that we ate. Cannoli in Palermo:


Rachel nails another ice cream, this time in Taormina:


And Ben bids farwell to Sicily with a big, fat arancino on the ferry from Messina - our train was safely stowed away downstairs so it seemed a shame not to take advantage of the cafe!


And finally, because it's probably the best photo of Rachel in existence:


No, it's not what it looks like (there were no dogs involved!) - it's chocolate ice cream in a brioche roll, the local speciality. With hindsight, a non-brown flavour might have been a better idea.