Yes this wanderer is again on the move…
Sunday evening I took the 5pm ferry from Malta to Marina Di Ragusa in Sicily, the land of sandy beaches, hot spots and erupting volcanoes….
A perfect evening for a boat ride out of the Grand harbour
Too bad for anyone who arrived late, we left the harbour at 4.45pm (transport leaving early makes a change from delays!)
Leaving Valetta… this fast ferry service put the foot down and docked in the Sicilian harbour of Marina Di Ragusa at 6.30pm, half an hour before schedule!
My Irish friends, Jayne and Niall, who I hadn’t seen in 25 years, kindly invited me to join them in this holiday spot for a few days…as finally we happen to be in the same part of the world (well almost). Our oldest sons both started school together in NZ when we were all living on the North Shore!
On arrival…the beach nearest the centre was humming on a Sunday evening.,,standing room only on a beach! But as the temperature was a balmy 30 degrees at 7pm…it’s fair that swimming in the Mediterranean Sea was a great activity to finish the weekend!
We plonked ourselves down at a beach bar…for a few hours and started catching up on all the years since they returned to Ireland!
Yesterday morning, as the yarns continued, we walked along the waterfront (5kms)…
The sea like glass…and the day promising to be a bluebird beach day!!!
Niall managed to capture the Gals…before our coffee stop at one of the many cafes on the Marina! Some things just don’t change!!!
Back to the house…and a breakfast of fresh fruit, donning our bikinis (?) and across the road for some beach time!
Sand(golden) and clear blue sea!
The first swim of this summer break for me! And I spent the few hours, in and out of the water…it was heaven!
We returned to the house…deck shower, lunch and a rest…before a big night out!
Portugal/Spain Football game, was playing at 9pm, Niall had scoped out the one bar in town that would show the game with a bit of prompting….as World Cup fever is sweeping the rest of the world, it seems these Italians here in Sicily do not have the slightest bit of interest!
We ate dinner at a nice restaurant and then moved to the bar…outside table with the game on! (commentary in Italian) .. there were maybe only about 10-15 people at the bar in the beginning…however as the evening went on and the game progressed the place was full..possibly tourists gasping for some football action!
As luck would have it, for Spain, they scored in the dying throes of the game…and we were not committed to another hour of extra time and shootouts! Getting into bed just before midnight!
This morning I woke at 6am…to the sunrise off my terrace…
Promising to be another day for wallowing in the water…this morning however, I might explore the town before beach time…
Mt Etna is still erupting..airports here are closed for the second day in a row…but as I am doing boat travel and we are on the south coast there is little effect on my mini break…except a black ask dust gathering on the white tiled terraces!
All who wander are not Lost girls 