Yesterday, Rod and Jim picked us up and drove us to Florence to the airport. We caught a thirty-five minute flight to Rome and then an hour flight to Palermo. A driver from our hotel, Delle Vittorie Boutique Hotel, picked us up and soon we were in Palermo’s old town area settled into the hotel.

This morning we were to meet our guide to Agrigento at 8, or at least we thought he was a guide. It turned out he was a driver who dropped us at the gates and picked us up a couple of hours later. Oh, well, since we got very lost in the grounds of Agrigento, I wish he was a guide. Because we were late getting out of the park, we missed the second half of our tour, the Stairs of the Turks, a seaside cliff. Another time, perhaps. Agrigento was a Greek colony founded in 581 B.C. A century later it had a population of 200,000 people. The Valley of the Temples is a site of several ruins, dedicated to Zeus, Heracles (Hercules), Concord and Hera.

Temple of Hera

Early Christian Cemetery cut into the old Greek walls

Temple of Concordia

Temple of Concordia

Temple of Heracles

Temple of Heracles

Temple of Castor and Pollux

After we finally were able to figure out how to find Exit 5 where our van was waiting, we stopped at Villa Kephos and had two delicious pizzas We had half of each left, so brought them back and will have them for dinner.

Alan is off doing laundry, a never ending process and then we will take it easy tonight. Tomorrow we are supposed to have a food sampling walking tour, but it is supposed to storm we will decide then.

Here are a few shots coming and leaving from Agrigento.

The Laundromat!

Until tomorrow, Ciao!