We started off at lunch time and headed for somewhere to have lunch. Found a Pizzeria and had an ordinary sort of lunch. Then we went to the bus station to get a bus up to the Castello della Zisa, finding the right bus and working it all out was an adventure in itself. But we got there … another Norman-Arabic building that once would have been absolutely magnificent. Some pretty mosaics and stonework but uninspiring restoration work in a very seedy part of town, standing there in its splendid isolation surrounded by tenement housing. After climbing up and down the castle we went to explore the gardens which, again, would once have been fabulous but the fabulousness is now very faded. Once we were in there it was hard to get out as there were no exits at the front. While trying to work all this out we started talking to a man who got so excited when he learned we were from Australia. He got on his mobile phone and his family appeared from nowhere to tell us their family members lived in Sydney etc etc…it took us a while to exit this park, all in all but eventually we did and walked back to the centre via some massive festival or other. We could see a thing, far too many people but it looked BIG.
We finally walked our way home, had dinner at home last night, sent Hammy out for Canolo to finish the meal and watched Narcos via Netflix (clever Hammy). Then we listened to the massive fireworks going off around town. They were serious firework, you would be forgiven for thinking we were being invaded.
Today is Monday…not sure what is on. H&A haven’t emerged yet to set the agenda.