Revisiting- Trapani

Water is the stuff life is made of, without water, life will be hard. So many places in this world is ravaged by a lack of water. With the growth of the world's population, water, clean water is getting scarcer. It rains a lot in Sicily from October to March and even so there is not enough water. So traveling to Sicily during these months would mean umbrellas and rain gear and maybe an extra pair of shoes in case the other pair got wet. This was the case here, I wore wet boots for 3 days. Sophie, on the other hand brought with her a second pair of shoes. This umbrella has seen a lot of places in the world with me, I don't travel in summer because most places that I want to go to gets too hot in the summer. So I do travel with umbrellas and rain gear most of the time. I'm always looking at new rain gear, each time, thinking to myself, this would be nice to travel with. Visiting Trapani on the west side of Sicily a few years ago, we were caught in a deluge and got soaking wet even with umbrellas and rain coats but we still had a great time and the rain did not dampen our memories of Trapani. It's a quiet fishing city, lots of boats, both fishing and pleasure. In summer a lot of Europeans vacation here but we were there in October and had the place almost all to ourselves. It is more like a gateway to the islands off Sicily, there are lots of ferry boats to the islands and also to North Africa. We had to be in Trapani to round up our trips to Sicily but we still didn't have enough time to visit the salt pans of Mozia, nor have time to see the Greek ruins at Segeste. It was here we tasted fish stew with couscous, it's found no where else in Sicily. The hotel we stayed in also owns a restaurant downstairs and we ate there one night. It was a lovely restaurant. It wasn't really a hotel, it was more an apartment, a self contained apartment. It was a lovely place and people were really nice and it was the off season and there was hardly any visitors.

The lovely courtyard.

We had the front door propped open the whole time because it was so lovely outside.

This was the entrance, next to the restaurant, there is another hotel in the same building.

There was no one about and we had the whole old town to ourselves.

Baroque churches and buildings abound in old town Trapani.

The marina

The sign leading to the Punic museum.

We asked if we could take their picture, they said, OK.

A ferry boat.




Sure brings back some really pleasant memories. We ate at a Chinese restaurant one evening, imagine there are Chinese people in Trapani. It wasn't bad, it was a Sunday and all the restaurants were closed, the only thing open were the cafes. We chatted with the owners.