At least the service was great. The marina we stayed in wasn’t in the best location, but the guy showed us a map of the best places for each individual meal, places to visit, bars, and was even specific enough to show the best gelateria and what flavours to get (these things are important)!

Well, we were close to the wall and had great wifi, so naturally I decided to do something that will probably get me a bunch of negative comments. But I re-downloaded Pokemon Go, because I figured we’d be doing a lot of walking around a highly populated city, and although I had ulterior motives relating to other Pokémon games, I just felt like doing it for fun.

And it’s as a result, that I conveniently had my phone to take photos with, because there were no shortage of things to photo.

In Palermo, we arrived quite in the afternoon and didn’t really do munch, the next day, however, we met in the morning with a friend from Singapore, called Orhan. With him, we visited a butterfly museum (even though it was closed), wanted through the vast city, and had lunch.

Because we are slowly accepting Italian customs, we spent most of the day doing blissfully nothing.

The next day, (today), we opted to go on a long walk throughout the city, passing numerous cathedrals, ape and horse taxis (the ape is a three wheeled car and the horse is a real horse), and Pokestops…

Whilst exploring the markets (a bunch of illegal migrants with Gucci fakes and stuff) we came across a marching band, and we watched them a bit

We also visited a cathedral with roof access that enabled view of most of the city, and after more exploring, we headed back to the boat.

Funnily enough, we figured it was barely midday, and with nothing better to do, left Palermo for a bay around the corner, with some remarkably fast sailing, in to this windy bay (thank goodness we have such a good anchor🙄), and anchored.

From there here, we’ve had a great view of incoming boats, one sailing boat came in so fast it was at a 45 degree angle and saved only by its keel. Another rib, that came in shortly after us was blasting ridiculously loud music, and let me tell you, we weren’t assisting it when it crashed in to another boat, due to the fact that they only put down three metres of anchor, without realising it was 8 metres deep.

Tomorrow, we’ll be doing the passage, up the coast, to a city called Trapani.