You may ask, why do I summarize 4 days in one post? Because it all comes down to a simple formula every long-term hiker comes down to : Eat, Sleep, Hike, Repeat. That’s basically all we did in the last few days. We covered around 140 km in those four days. We didn’t talk much, enjoyed the hike and the scenery and looked forward to finishing Sicily.
But still there are a few things to mention. For example the hotel we stayed at in Castiglione di Sicilia, the Cento Tari’s Guest House. A beautiful little place with an amazing breakfast. We had to stay there because we needed to resupply in Castiglione di Sicilia for the next days but the supermarket is always closed on Wednesday afternoon. So we stayed for the night. This night was followed by a strong uphill climb and a miserable night. Jared pitched his tent on a table in a rest-area, I decided to pitch my tent on snow on a hill. We both didn’t sleep too well and that’s all I want to say.
The next day, Day 14 and Friday it is, we had a good day and a fun hiking-day. It was quit a long descend followed by a gnarly uphill climb, not very long but quite steep. Afterwards we finally came to the path we shall follow for the next two days. A few km into that way we meet Angelo sitting in his Bulldozer all by himself clearing the path from gravel and rocks. As he probably didn’t expect any hikers, he curiously asked where we are heading. With our little knowledge in the italian language and his not-knowledge of english we had some fun to explain him that we are on the way to Norway. He got so excited about us that he asked us to please call him when we get there. He couldn’t resist but giving us his bag of cookies, prob ably his wife made for him…if I understood him right. Before we had to say good-bye we had to take selfies, of course…Jared and I are already looking forward to calling him. The conversation without hands and feet will be very interesting. Here is Angelo, us and a bag of cookies:
After a few more km we found a nice place for the night. That night was very cold, freezing.
Day 15 went by quickly.
Day 16: we finally made it to the nort-eastern tip of Sicily to Messina and because we missed the last ferry to Reggia di Calabria on mainland Italy, we are staying at a hotel again.
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