Catching up: some pics from our last walk  in the mountains – we walked from just outside Geraci (near Petralia) to a tiny village called Sperlinga which is up a steep hill topped by yet another Norman castle.  The day was warm and sunny and the views great. We had a light lunch (one of the few so far!) and then were driven back to Petralia via Geraci – one of the few towns we’ve been in which seems to be making a bit of an effort to attract tourists.  The church had a famous painting of the last judgement but the memorable aspect of the visit was to the crypt – where the mummified bodies of parish priests from the mid 1700s to the mid 1800s are displayed, propped up in their vestments.  I was a bit weirded out – there are around 50 mummified priests staring at you and not from inside a glass case!😳 

It was our last day of walking the mountains – yesterday we drove from Petralia Soprana via Castelbuono to Messina, where we took a hyrofoil to Lipari in the Aeolian islands off Sicily’s northeast coast.

The town itself is more touristy (aimed mostly at italians but there seem to be germans here too) than elsewhere we’ve been but it’s nice to be by the sea after being in the mountains.

The pics that follow are in reverse order to the walk.