| Our villa for a week at Avola, on the south east coast of Sicily.
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| Relaxing on the terrace.
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| The family up the campanile in Noto.
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| Enjoying the late afternoon sun in Noto.
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| Relaxing in Ragusa.
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| Huge lunch.
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| Pantalica gorge.
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| John in a hole.
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| A well earned dip in a fresh water lake at the bottom of a gorge.
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| Enjoying the sea at the villa.
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| The view from the terrace at night.
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| Pratting about.
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| A post-barbeque bonfire on the beach.
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| Fish market in Siracusa.
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| Enjoying a lunch in Siracusa.
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| Andrea and Rita find something to cool themselves down with!
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| The Greek theatre outside Siracusa.
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| John digs a hole by the villa (why?)
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| The finished hole!
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| A wedding in the cathedral at Monreale, near Palermo.
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| Lunch with Alessandra near La Noce.
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| With Nina outside Teatro Massimo, Palermo.
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| Rachel reunited with her class.
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| Eating arancioni while waiting for the ferry in Messina.
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| Back on mainland Italy, and it started raining.
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| The church in Tropea, Calabria.
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| Tropea.
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| Sunset from our tent near San Costantino Albanesi, in Basilicata.
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| The most hospitable people in Italy! We met them in the street of their village in Basilicata and they invited us into their home for a drink!
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| A praying mantis.
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| The sassi at Matera.
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| A drink by the trulli in Alberobello, Puglia.
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| Alberobello, Puglia.
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