As I write this Ham and Ariane are doing their last minute packing and getting ready to leave this morning.
Yesterday was spent with them doing last minute things like laundromatting and packing. We all went out and had lunch at a new place that really wasn’t much good…OK but expensive and the staff weren’t too friendly. Then Ariane and i branched out to look at some shops for me to do some ‘going home-type’ shopping myself. The shops were closed (3pm…of course!!!) so we went off in search of a place for Ariane to have a haircut. We found a great hairdresser who did a fantastic job on her lovely curly hair. Honestly Italy is great for haircuts and her cut looks terrific. We then went back to the shops and bought a few little things then came home. Ham was out luandromatting and then he had work he had to finish at all costs which is quite stressful for him. We then went out to dinner. We were in search of a new restaurant we wanted to try but after walking the back streets of Palermo to no avail we aborted the mission and went to an old favourite the ‘Ferro di Cavallo’, had a nice meal (and cheap).
Now its leave time for them, it has been a wonderful month in Sicily, it has been fantastic for me to have the company and to do and see things I probably wouldn’t have done alone. I’ll be catching up with them for a couple of nights in Bologna in a week so shouldn’t be sad (but I always am, being a truly hopeless goodbye sayer).
3 more days in Palermo for me then on to Bologna.