Hallelujah! Communication Again.

Hi  everyone. We have not had communication for over a week. No internet cafes or phone shops. They recommend going to the phone company direct to make international calls. Good luck with that. We are so happy to have Pam with us. She even speaks English!! Sicily is very different from Portugal (and every else for that matter). Very expensive (they are charging us 90 euros for our bedding--as if we could bring our own). Our villa is quite a distance from anywhere , so we have to drive to get anywhere. Its a beautiful place but the weather is atrocious. We ve had little sun and lots of rain and wind. We thought that Pam would bring us some good weather but today has been the worst. Pouring rain all day except a little rain and snow mixed. (yes, I said snow!) Apart from that the scenery is beautiful. Really rugged coastline and turquoise water.Tomorrow we are planning a trip down to Catania and maybe a train trip to Palermo on Friday. (if its open)By the way we are 14kms. outside of Cefalu. If I ever complain about Kelowna traffic again-- slap me. The drivers here try to kill you, but Ian is getting pretty at pretending to be Sicilian. Judy, we will try you on  the web cam but the connection here is poor and the voices keep breaking up. Hope everyone is well and look forward to seeing you all. Ian is still having a bad time with his sinuses but we finally found a pharmacy that was open and the pharmacist gave him something for it. Ciao for now.