Neto

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5 May 2008

We awoke to another sunny day and to prawn fishermen busy in the waves off our beach.

We first drove to the south east corner of Sicily, as far south as we shall travel. It’s took 5 weeks and 2,850 miles to get there. We then headed north and the start of our trip home.

Our first port of call was Neto. One of a number of towns in this area which were destroyed in a major earthquake in 1693 and rebuilt over the next 100 years in an opulent Baroque style. It’s a magnificent town, many of its fine buildings have obviously been restored and cleaned over the past few years. The dome and nave of the cathedral collapsed in 1996 and it reopened lat year after major rebuilding.

We have found an excellent camper stop just outside Neto with charming and very helpful owners who are running us about locally, so we didn’t have to bother to park in the centre here and will be able to catch the train to Siracusa tomorrow.

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