We were dreading waking up to more rain, but the morning dawned sunny. We toyed with the idea of driving back up to Erice to see what we missed, but our plane was leaving at 12.30pm and once we had a clear view of it, we could see that it was clagged in with a big cloud enveloping it.

The Rough Guide wasn’t very complimentary about Trapani, but the town has obviously changed a lot since it was published, because we really liked the place. Far from crumbling and run down, it had nicely restored palazzi, wide streets and lots of pedestrian areas, as well as sea on both sides of the old town. We wandered around soaking up the sun, sights and sea air until it was time to leave.

At the airport we got our final view of Erice – still in cloud. It started raining just was we taxied down the runway. Back home it was grey and the Pyrenees have a dusting of snow again.

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