Day 9 (4/13) Mondello

We woke up to pouring rain. Our host at the B&B brought our breakfast and said he would bring our car right up to the door. We left in the heavy rain and struggled to get out of Piazza Armerina. Once on the motorway the driving was OK. The Sicilian motorways are good roads. There are long pieces of elevated roadways over valleys and many (sometimes several consecutive) tunnels through mini mountains. The country side is stunning.
We arrived in Mondello and followed signs to our B&B. It was on a small narrow street with no visible place to park. We decided to circle around and try again when we passed by the big and beautiful Palace hotel. We stopped and checked in. Mondello is a beach community between downtown Palermo and the airport. At 1 pm it was dead, but every fish restaurant along the harbor was set up with displays of fresh fish, octopus, mussels, clams, oysters, scallops and sea urchins that look like lychee fruits. We picked one, had our last seafood meal in Sicily. When we were walking back to retire for siesta, we saw a nice meal set up for cats -- a plate of cat food (antipasto?) and two plates of spaghetti. We’ll emerge again in the evening when we think the town will be jumping.