Uphill to the late baroque town Ragusa

I started early today. To get the most out of daylight.

Gela in the early morning light

I left the old oil-town of Gela to the South, seeing the remains of the past. 

Old oil refinery

After 40 km, reached Comiso, where I made a break and ate some fruits to gather energy for the climb up to my final destination for the day. 

Comiso main square

View while climbing

Finally, I reached Ragusa where I spent the rest of the day plus night. 

Ragusa

Temple, mud and sun

Today, I came through Agrigente. It is known for La Valle dei Templi, an important place with lots of greek pillars. I tried to let my bike at some guards to visiting the site safely, but was not successful in the negotiation with the security. So, I look at the buildings form the outside which may not be the worst choice.

The Concordia temple

I saw the sun nearly the whole day, the temperature demanded for a long shirt. Short before noon, I decided to take a little road, that seems to be interesting. It turned out to be a dead end. At least got a normal person. My problem (sometimes) is, that when I have choosen a route, I do not like to turn back and reuse that road in the other direction. About that, I am stubborn. My result today lead me to cross a muddy creek and made my freshly washed t-shirt unclean. 

... turning back is for wimps...

The shirt needs to be re-washed 

I made it before darkness to aGela. 

Another late ride

Tailwind and mostly sunny

I could follow a bike path that I just found next to the street for a while. An old railway-track

Tarmac is now the base of this old railroad

Sciaccia

The first bicycle travellers, I met. Two brothers from Canada, riding every year in another part of the world. 

Ron and Kenny from Toronto and Winnipeg 

Hills and rain

Between Castellammare del Golfo and Trapani are some hills. Nothing serious, but enough to make a nice scenary.

View over Castellammare

I hat a nice fishy lunch in Trapani

Seafood with some vegetables 

Than the light rain started.  And it didn’t stop till I reached my final destination.

actual position

 And again, it was already dark when I  hit Mazara del Vallo. 

Christmas is definitely here

Arrived on Sicily

Today, Palermo was only two hops away from my hometown Frankfurt. About 30 Minutes to Munich and another 2 hours to the Island in the very South of Europe.

To prepare myself, I watched The Godfather on my iPad on the second flight.

The well-rounded Sicilian woman next to me took notice but seem to like it. Maybe she liked the actor who plays Al Pacino a little. 

Inspite of my last experiance in Madrid, my bike and the luggage arrived in time an in good condition. A nice woman in the baggage-claim area even asked me if I would like to reuse my big bike-box on the flight back. 

I am really curious if the box is still there when I am nach in two weeks.
[Update after the tour: The box was still there when I flew home - thank you]

After assembling my bike, I was ready to go. It was a sunny day with som heavy wind in my face, but sunny. So I enjoyed my first day in Sicily.  

Sind and mountains. I am lucky


The wind is blowing in my face

I rode till dawn, which is at 16:45 here - no joke

Zwischenstopp in München

Jetzt im Flughafen

2 Std Aufenthalt. 

Probiere gerade die Blogging Apps. 

Update: habe mich für BlogTouch Pro entschieden. 

Me : bicycle -1 Lufthansa : bicycle +1

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