And the adventures go on and on.

Our hotel here in Ragusa is not really a hotel in the normal way of things. It’s almost a sort of apart-hotel. We have a bedroom, and a  very nice bedroom it is, and a kitchen/dining area we share with the other people who have bedrooms here and a sort of sitting room area downstairs. As our bedroom opens onto the kitchen/dining area we seem to use it more than most. Nobody uses the sitting room!

We invite others from our group, who are in a more traditional hotel, to come and have coffee or wine in our place. The downside is that we have to go out to a cafe from breakfast. It all works well though.

This morning we found our way to the local Spar before setting off on our adventures. Now, maybe I will not have to pay €2.70 for an orange juice on top of my breakfast “vaucher” at the cafe. And Phil has cereal for supper!

Then we met up with the gang and headed for Noto, a singularly lovely town, destroyed in the earthquake of 1693 and rebuilt in a beautifully coordinated fashion.

I was not impressed by the beggars trying make us look at budgerigars and other such birds perching on their fingers, but then that is largely because I hate things that flap!

But it is a fine town. 
I even found a “This and That” shop for Phil, who likes to spend tine doing this and that.

Lunch was also quite impressive.

We ate it in a very nicely decorated sidestreet.

And then we moved on to Scicli, where we visited Montalbano-land - the various places where the Montalbano detective series was filmed. Including this time round (Phil and I have done the tour before) an actual stage set within the town hall. The poor mayor and various offices have had to be moved to accommodate this but I suspect the tourist revenue makes up for it.

 

Scicli is a nice place on its own account, without the television connection. There are some fine churches.

They also have some wonderful ceramics.

 And we ended the evening in a strange fast-food place - Sicilian style!

All good.

And tomorrow is another day!