May 4th Manfi to somewhere near Ribera

Cycled first to Scoccia. Coffee on the old port. Characterful place where men outnumber women 100 to 1. Then headed up to find a supermarket,to no avail. Luckily Ribera only small detour ahead. Only option larger road but these seem to be sparsely populated by really heavy traffic so not bad. The slight detour to Ribera was up a hill. Quite a nice place and more open than others in siesta, and luckily a Lidl (new favourite shop) open all hours to do a mammoth shop whilst we can. Cycle down the hill again to campsite. Disappointingly no pool, down to the weather said the patron, Dave reckons more to do with lack of tiles and amount of work needing doing everywhere! But a good pitch and fab showers, so all good.

 May 5th and 6th Ribera to Agrigento

Back onto main road with a stop at montallegro for coffee. A ice little place and complimentary panne au chocolat too, which was scrummy. Then a cycle into Porto Empedocle, which is lovely. Quite grand pedestrianised area. On the way in passed some unusual white cliffs,which literally looked like white petrified lava. Escaped the chat up by the resident tooth deprived drinking chap to the campsite at Santa Leone. So nice we immediately decided to stay two nights. Quick sojourn to the beach, where we could see more white cliffs in the distance. Chilled evening, scrabble score evening out. 

May 5th and 6th Ribera to Agrigento

Back onto main road with a stop at montallegro for coffee. A ice little place and complimentary panne au chocolat too, which was scrummy. Then a cycle into Porto Empedocle, which is lovely. Quite grand pedestrianised area. On the way in passed some unusual white cliffs,which literally looked like white petrified lava. Escaped the chat up by the resident tooth deprived drinking chap to the campsite at Santa Leone. So nice we immediately decided to stay two nights. Quick sojourn to the beach, where we could see more white cliffs in the distance. Chilled evening, scrabble score evening out. 


Next day set off with best intentions of being cultural, to the Valle Dei Templi. It was so easy to see these Greek ruins from the road we decided to forgo the 20 euro admission. Then on up to Agrigento. Hot, big hill. Coffee at the top. Nice but not printable for Dave so back down to beach where he did painting there. Early night as off again next day.