Josh and Colleen in Sicily

Fortunately we ended up finding a great place to stay here in Piazza Armerina, had a great visit to the Villa Romana just outside the city with its mosaics, and are in the middle of an endless number of pasticcerie. Best cookie so far has pistachio paste inside and white chocolate outside.

Tonight is it, then we're off to Catania to catch our flights. We'll see everyone soon.

Josh and Colleen

On our way out to Palermo on Wednesday, our host Ignazio stopped us at the door. "Are you leaving today?" Of course not, I thought, until I did the math on the cost and how many nights we'd been there in my head. I'd moved up all the lodging dates a day when I made the reservations. We packed and headed to Mandranova. It'll work out fairly nicely anyway, since we'll be able to stay a night in Piazza Armerina, at the site of a second century Roman villa with famous mosaics, and about an hour closer to our flight home from Catania.

Meantime, my bragging about great planning has subsided a bit.

There is a wireless point at the Rome airport, so all of our photos should get uploaded during our layover there Sunday. Until then, ci parliamo.

The computer here at the B&B hasn't been able to read my USB drive to upload our photos, so I've been holding out on the posts until I got that straightened out -- big mistake, since internet access went down here entirely yesterday through today. A quick recap then, of what we've done so far, coming next. More detailed posts, with photos, will follow.