Tag: Sicily 2025

My maiden name was Daley. What are the odds of sitting next to the Dailey’s for our first dinner with our tour group?

Bernie and Debbie Dailey ate with us last night and we had a lot to talk about. I said Daley and spelled it out, and he said Irish. My family he said is from England, dating back to the early 1800’s. The Dailey’s have traveled the world and they gave us some tips about the northern lights, Scotland and other exotic places.

What are the odds?

Globus is a big company and the intros around the room for those we are traveling with spoke very highly of this by mentioning this is our 8th, 9th, trips with the company. This is our second.

Dan said wouldn’t it be nice if we had the same tour guide as last time in Italy? I said yes but, probably highly unlikely. Well, I’ll be darned if it isn’t Laura the very same tour guide we had last time in 2019, 6 years ago. She is from Rome. I walked up to her and gave her a hug. Mia familia she says. And she remembered Dan’s face. That’s because he’s so handsome I said.

Now we know for certain that our trip will be filled with every little detail we experienced on our last trip here. What are the odds?

CANNOLIS

~Diane

I researched these bags and purchased based on their roll-ability and packability in cubes. Well I’ve re-named them Humpty Dumpty. My bags may have had center of gravity issues. When I pulled it, it would roll over uncontrollably. That’s not what I want to do this whole trip so now I have Luigi. He’s an italian guy with sexy wheels and can lead the dance we call travel with ease. He’s sleek and modern and rolls with just my pinky.

I’ve got a pattern of trying to reduce baggage so we don’t have to check it but both in England and Sicily I’ve failed. Now we have two new suitcases to show for it and yes, the elephant in the room is the bidet. We have to google how to use it properly.

In 30 minutes we meet our tour guide and group. Andiamo! That’s let’s go in Italian. Chao!

~Diane

We passed this place walking around on our first day here but do you think we could find it again? Lord knows we tried. Ended up at another place where the pizza was round not oblong.

Round I guess is less efficient but what does it matter really when it comes to pizza. The drinks have no ice but they chill the glasses and the bottled coke so it doesn’t matter.

A good pizza has it all from crust to top. We’re looking for the perfect piece and we may have just found it. One dilemma we’ve never encountered in all our pizza tasting….cutting it. Don’t know why they served it not cut but that did t stop us from figuring it out. The extra ingredient is the crust that you can actually taste. This pizza had it all. It didn’t need to be anything other than a beautiful arrangement of the finest ingredients, then cooked in the perfect oven for the perfect time and there you go. On the top and the bottom cooked to its full glory.

We’re still mostly on US Eastern time and not acclimated to the change, so it was 10:30 (am) before rousing our sleepy selves to the street to find breakfast. Which we did at a nearby grocery store, of which there are many. More on that from Diane soon.

A sunny, 65-ish degrees today. Very pleasant.

Meats prepared and stuffed with every conceivable delicious thing rolled up and breaded to be fried. It’s beautiful, so diverse and delicious. Sicilians brought these to America and big box stores erased them. The meats are farm raised, vegetables so fresh and cheeses all have a different taste because of its origin. Our food pales in comparison. And this is everywhere. Btw, momma, the teens will still hang out at McCafe McDonalds cause it’s cheap. So sad when they live in a land of plenty and flavor.

Only half of the cheese case

In Spinnatos grocery in the back is a cafe where fresh food is prepared. We had a sandwich prochutti ham, mozzarella cheese with lettuce and tomato on a beautiful focaccia bread. Also an arichini with ham and cheese. And to chase it all down a latte maciatto served with a chocolate biscotti cookie round. Melts in your mouth. We are happy.