Sicily picspam

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Punta Secca, where we were staying, is this tiny little seaside village, but, hey, it has a lighthouse!



Fishing boats in the little harbour:



Crumbling Baroque splendour in the town of Scicli:



I didn't have enough time for wandering and never found out where this street leads:



Decaying churches and well-looked-after cars:





All you need for hours and hours of fun is a slope and the inexhaustible energy of a three year old:



Visible from just about everywhere in the town is this crag and ruined church:



So that's where we went, driving along a hair-raisingly steep and narrow gravel track until even our Sicilian driver Carlo, a self-confessed "delinquente", chickened out and decided we should walk the last bit, to get this view:



The ruined church from two photos up can just about be seen on the right left of this picture - the sun was at the wrong angle for a good shot:



Such an isolated chapel, not surprising that it seemed abandoned: