Italy - Spontaneous flight from Sicily

Okay, the title reads more exciting than it was.

Spontaneous? Yes. Escape? Hardly. We stand on the beach with our Felix and start the morning comfortably watching the strong swell and some sun. Clearly too fresh to sit outside.

So we decide - following the weather map - to head back towards the east coast. Here the sun is shining, 7 hours a day.

Now we just have to consider whether we will drive over the mountains again, which, as we can see now, are covered in clouds. The memory of yesterday, of our drive in fog and zero visibility through snow-covered mountains, is still in our bones.

Coastal road it is. Our sat navs are far apart: they seem to have everything on offer between 2 and 3.5 hours. Gerd just drives off, taking neither motorway nor dual carriageway, and after about an hour we take a break in a small café at the end of the world. Again, there is nothing to linger over, it is boring. We take a short spin along the beach, sit down in our Felix and slowly but surely trundle towards Messina. Because: the sun is supposed to shine for days there!

It's slowly getting to lunchtime, Gerd asks when the sun-drenched town will finally arrive. I look at my mobile phone and casually mention that the ferry is here first and then there are only 11 kilometres to go. "Which ferry?" "The one from down in Sicily," I say.

We look at each other, nod, laugh and Gerd sets the indicator. 15 minutes later we have the tickets in our hands and are standing, noses in the wind, on the ferry after "Where to again?".

We try to reconstruct: We drive to the ferry, Gerd quickly gets out and asks for the price. 53 €. Aha. We think. Okay, we do it (What else should it be? End life here on the island?). Gerd buys the ticket, pays €36. Aha. We queue up, show our ticket, get on the ferry and sail across the Mediterranean. But where to? I ask him where the ferry is going, my husband can't say, he didn't ask.

Interesting. Well, let's be surprised whether we go to Reggio Calabria or Villa San Giovanni. Maybe we'll end up in Greece too. Or Corsica? We'll see. Today. Or tomorrow. Or sometime.

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