After a day of rest, our legs were ready to head inland to Castelvetrano for a capucino! In the central Piazza, we found  the church to be quite beautiful. Older architecture as the roof was wood timber.

Next stop was the climb up to Partanna at 400m and a visit to the castle.  We didn't go in to the castle but enjoyed the vistas from a number of Piazzas where we ate our lunch!

So this is where I thought it was going to be all down hill back to our home on a somewhat busy road. Wrong!

We started to descend quickly with lots of switchbacks and not a car in sight! Then the trees started to encroach on the road .. then the weeds started to pop through the ashphalt  .. then the ashphalt disappeared .. then we startled a fox .. then we floated over a number of stretches of clay/mud (thankfully dry) .. and finally a climb out of the abyss  on to some better roads, then down again and across the valley floor and up to the ridge that took us back to Marinella!

A great ride!

Cheers

Harold and Marion