The bus between Palermo & Liccata goes past Valle dei Templi in Aggrigento, and through other lovely hilly & mountainous countryside. I hope on some future visit in Sicily, I’ll manage to get up to what you see above, which I believe would be the Temple of Juno.
The port of Licata lies along Sicily’s southern coast. Licata, I learned during a short visit in early July, was where allied (mostly American? at least there are some things from the long past that one can still have a shred of national pride in?) troops landed to begin the push into Italy during WWII. I was there for work reasons (link here to a recent public communication related to that part of our work), and it’s clear that I must also spend some time being a tourist in Sicily soon! Such beautiful landscapes, towns and historic buildings spanning milennia. 🙂
Local residents – women, as the story goes – gather in the library here in Licata (on Sicily’s southern coast) to make these beautiful needlepoint decorations the adorn Licata’s already-lovely streets at certain festivals. Forget which saint’s festival these were for, but goodness, aren’t they lovely?!?
The beautiful Sicilian countryside during an evening bus ride from Palermo down to Licata 1-1/2 weeks ago. I’m currently in a very different part of the world, again for work, and photos from here will appear at some point, one hopes… 🙂
Last Friday, on the last Rome to Amsterdam leg of a long travel day, our pilot had said that we’d pass over Elba on our way north. So when I saw this interesting shape out my window, I got all excited. This, though, is another island in the Tuscan Archipelago – which, like, who knew? 🙂
Please meet the small and very appealing-looking island of Giannutri, dear readers.
Final shots from last June’s short Rome visit: above, a bay on the west coast of Italy heading south, and below, over the alps then about to land in Amsterdam a few days later. If you’re viewing this on your phone, you might see how you like the “full view” now and then – that way, you’d see circles of smaller photos below and a larger photo above, instead of four square same-sized photos top to bottom. Just sayin’ :-).
We’ve shown you photos from this flight once before. It took a bit less than an hour to go from the flat green fields of NL to these shots of the alps as seen from above. Pretty sure these are mostly over Switzerland, and still pretty sure the lake below is more of Lago Maggiore, which means some of the southernmost parts are Italy. Sorry for the reflections in some of these; I just love seeing the map come alive to my eyes :-).
(so much world, so little time....) 