Sunday morning so I’m taking things very slowly thinking nothing is open too early on a Sunday. Besides there was no hot water for my shower which I took very casually, doing a bit of packing, and only belatedly txting the host, Pietro. I think all he has to do is turn it on so it is fixed immediately. Then I look up the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia that I wanted to go to and see it closes at 1pm. So I leap up and out I choof down the street, past the world’s best coffee shop….whoops, can’t go past that without a quick cappuccino. Then on to make a few mis-turns before I find it. Anyway it was lovely, I thoroughly enjoyed it, with some lovely works.
Then I made my way back to the restaurant of yesterday that I enjoyed so much, Antica Focacceria di San Francesco. It was jam packarooby with a queue waiting for a table. So I waited thinking they wouldn’t give a table as a priority to one person. However they did look after me and it was only 10 mins or so before I was sitting down. I decided I would try the Sicilian specialty (I’d promised myself I ‘d do this before I left Sicily) cow spleen. So I had that followed by swordfish balls (not as in testes, as in football). Eating the spleen was actually something of a non-event. It was yummy and not at all disgusting. So I was proud of myself for having a go!! I finished the meal with a Limoncello just to satisfy my need to have a ‘last’ everything. Delicious and long lunch and then I sat in a piazza and had a read. Then back to the apartment.
Now I’m tying up bits and pieces. Pietro is making sure I have a taxi at the right time tomorrow for the airport. He wants me to have as long as possible in Palermo so has talked me down from my habitual veers early taxi. Henri (Hercule) has spent the last 2 nights skyping but the wifi is crap so we keep getting cut off…he keeps persisting though!!
I’m hoping I’ll make it all the way to Bologna tomorrow but it will depend on the stars aligning, otherwise I’ll stop overnight in Roma.
Another phase over and everything is now pointing down under!!