Day 123 Doors to the Soul!

Sunday 22/07/2018 (Day 37 SZ) Saganuma Corso Italia, 385, Ragusa, 97100, Italy -

Awoke to remember Gav and my niece Amie’s birthday... both July 22nd...

Another night passes us by in another bed, surprisingly we have adjusted not too bad to different beds.. Some nights are a little testy but on a whole we have coped...

I spent much of the morning sorting out pics and so much hassle here... many of these apartments must buy data bundles a lot slower so people can’t stream too much... but it causes so many issues just trying to do simple stuff... my other devastation for the morning was to discover that I had somehow unintentionally used up all my data... it still has m best how this could have occurred.. my phone plan rolled over Thursday apparently and by lunch time Friday it was all gone... I have been using it pretty well for the last month and this last 3 days no more than before, but Vodafone tells me I am out of credit... this is just the display limit... I use it the same all the time so got me absolutely baffled how I could use so much so quickly... but it’s gone and don’t think John will replace what’s gone... it will make it hard when commenting with others! So suck it up girl...

What to do today, well our thoughts are to head to an old city called Scicli... not to long a drive from Ragusa through the mountains ⛰... once we started to come into it there were 2 large cliffs on either side of the raven which is actually 3 valleys where most of Scicli lays... then above this are 2 cliffs which have 2 big structures, one a cathedral San Matteo and the other Rosario Monastery....

We started to wander around on foot then decided to go on a little train that took in the basic sights of the city... it Gav us a chance to see what’s here and go back to see them again.. that’s exactly what we did.....

Once the train ride had finished we had lunch, then set about trying to find the sights I wanted to take in better... this done we headed up the biggest hill to SAN Matteo Cathedral, once up there after a bit of a roughed track to get to it... we discovered it is now abandoned... the structure is still very sound..... Above it was another ruin plus around it are ruins as well... and under it are caves and caverns dug out centuries ago... we aren’t sure if any of the history on it other than in its heyday it would have been unreal... it still is to a certain degree...

The views below the Cathedral are just amazing... the old city and new city sights so big and so easy to see how it all fits together...

We had a great time exploring, it had been a pretty full day and washing needed to be done... so off we set back down the winding road through unreal gorge roads... you could so easily see the cliffs and valleys that most of these towns sit in and on...

Tonight we get to start my huge veggie and mince bake... and yep it tasted as good as I had hoped... at least when you cook yourself you know what your getting!

Having survived the first round of the bake, it’s off to bed!Læs mere