Rhonda Bracey: At Random

We arrived in Trapani on the western tip of Sicily this morning, caught the ship’s shuttle bus into town, but no-one seemed to know where the town centre was. There was no guidance from the bus driver or anyone else, so we followed some other people. Bad move!

We spent an hour or two in the heat wandering about some quite deserted streets to the tip of the point, back past the fishing fleet, then decided we’d seen enough weeds, dead plants, dirty streets and dog poo, so headed back to the shuttle bus. Fortunately a fellow passenger waiting there told us we’d gone the wrong way and the main part of town was about 3 streets over from where we’d started… in the other direction! And so it was.

It was radically different from where we’d walked. Clean, long pedestrian mall, nice shops, lots of cafes, not too many people etc. We spent an hour or so there, then went back to the ship in the early afternoon.

Fishing boat harbour

Long, almost deserted, esplanade heading towards the tip of the point (too many rocks for swimming)

Near the tip of the point there was a pebble and rock area where some people were sunning themselves

Main street, which was a pedestrian mall, with lots of nice shops, cafes etc.

The array of pastries in a cafe where we found a loo!