We just had "long weekend (10days)" in Sicily...Actually, it was our winter holiday. We were debating either La Gomera or Sicily. I really wanted to go to La Gomera again for yummy sunshine, then again, we never visited to Sicily before, so, we decided to check the place out!
We flew from Stanstead (as usual) to Palermo by Rynair ("love or hate relationship" airline! cheap though). It was packed, yet it was OK flight. Couldn't wait to get away from the grey sky and cold temperature...
When we got there, it was warmer. NICE.
We hired a car but the company wasn't based in the airport, took us more than 1hour to get to the car hire place. By the time we got there (car people picked us up, about 20mins from the airport) it was dark... Then, we needed to find our accommodation for the night in Terrasini. It was called "B&B Green Garden" (www.greengardenterrasini.it) Although it's in English, it was run by locals. It was cute and clean place with good wi-fi, and all facilities. There was a communal kitchen next to the office. Staff was friendly, recommended us to go to the local restaurant to eat. Yes, we were really hungry. After checked in and checked a few things on the net, we explored the streets, Guess what, we saw... Orange trees were casually standing by the road. Loads! No-one picking them. So we picked some and tasted. They were bitter and lots of pips. We ate them anyway. We settled in this little "Italian kebab take-away shop". They had pizza, chips, salads, paninis and sweet things. I had panini without meat, Marcus had chips. That was our dinner that night.
Following day, we set off to "Piana Grande" in Rivera near(about 1 hour? way from Agrigento). Took us abour 3 hours to get there. Then we got lost. Couldn't find the petrol station we were told to go, so we rung Maurizio(he was on the contact name) from a garage in Rivera. Very quickly he turned up, we were now heading to "Piana Grande".
Wow! He had a very pretty house, they lived downstairs, and had 2 apartments upstairs. Above pictures were taken from our front balcony on the sunny day. It was very pretty.
Accommodation itself was very clean, neat, well decorated and cozy. Here's contact address: mfalletta@tiscali.it. It was called "rosso di sera" He's on the homeaway.com also. We had good deal due to off season. I bet in summer, it'll be lovely to just walk down to the beach for swim! Only 5-10mins walk! All down hill.
Maurizio and Ivana (who owned the place) welcomed us with yummy espresso and canola. We had a couple of them, they were really lovely. Crunchy pastry, smooth, sweet, yet had little sour to ricotta mix, and pistachio on top. I hadn't had these since when I used to work in the Daphne's. We made them for one of our special desserts. I thought nothing special about the dessert that time, but now I had real McCoy and know now how important to make the pastry right, get top quality (in Sicily, good home made) ricotta. It was so yummy, I had to have another one. That was how I ended up having 2. If there were loads more, I would've defo had a few more easy. That's enough food talk...
First thing we normally do when we get to the destination of our holiday is to get some food in. We drove round the town, found a few supermarkets and people were selling fresh products by the street. we had no hesitation stopping, and purchased local(mostly) produce. Then we think about what to do next day.
Thanks to Mourizio's wi-fi, we managed to look into some places we wanted to visit during our stay. Internet connection wasn't particularly well, but did the job, we just needed to check a few things each day...Not eBay though!!! ☺ (we didn't have a guide book...)
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