{"id":636,"date":"2013-06-19T20:03:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T19:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=636"},"modified":"2013-06-19T20:03:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T19:03:53","slug":"san-vito-lo-capo-trapani-and-couscouseria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"San Vito lo Capo, Trapani and Couscouseria"},"content":{"rendered":"

We took a 40 minute bus ride to Trapani, a busy port we sailed by on Monday. \u00a0As it is a commercial port, they have many additional rules to follow and the port isn’t as clean as San Vito lo Capo.<\/p>\n

Trapani has a beautiful old Centro historico and a lovely park. It is a very big town, but we went down to the port and old town and wandered around looking at the almost patchwork of different architectural styles, as Trapani has evolved over the centuries. Each church isn’t only influenced by the order of priests but of the time it was built.<\/p>\n

\"Preparing<\/a>
Preparing the flowers for a church service (in a Jesuit church)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We also enjoyed the green space of Villa Margharita, with old giant figs and geese and other birds in enclosures. It was a cool place to be in the midday heat \u00a0and there were quite a few tourists there, because other than a few restaurants, everything closes for several hours at lunch.<\/p>\n

\"Rococco<\/a>
Ornately styled buildings in Trapani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some of the buildings in the Corso Victor Emmanuel and the Palazzo Cavarretta are so Rococo giving the impression they are made of nougat and meringue. \u00a0In the afternoon, we were on the old wall over looking the sea, which in the mornings holds a market and discovered a Gelateria who had beautiful ices and gelato, but also pastries. \u00a0The cannoli shells were there above the gelato and you could have your shelf stuffed with ricotta ice cream or the traditional ricotta mixture. We sat outside on ottomans and enjoyed the ambience.<\/p>\n

Back in San Vito lo Capo, we walked along the foreshore and then along the beach.<\/p>\n

\"Late<\/a>
Late afternoon at San Vito lo Capo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had read quite a bit about the September Couscous festival and decided to go to a couscouseria for dinner. \u00a0We both ordered different flavours of couscous. They first create the broth to go with your meal, mine was a broth of citrus and tuna; James had a tomato based broth with mixed seafood. \u00a0But each of our couscous was a match to our broth. \u00a0James’ couscous had a tomato colour with prawns, shrimp and fish. My couscous was a brownish hue with almonds, citrus and eggplant. \u00a0You then spoon the broth from your individual bowl onto your mound of couscous. \u00a0It was very tasty and quite a different presentation. \u00a0Not the generic couscous that we have prepared with meals,not the much plainer alternative.<\/p>\n

This morning we sailed off in a wonderful procession of boats to Zingaro, water temperature of 24 degrees, so we anchored and swam with half a dozen other boats. \u00a0Then we continued on to the feudal village of Scopello, with it’s craggy rocks off the town, one with an ancient fortification perched atop of it.<\/p>\n

\"Scopello,<\/a>
Scopello, quite magical place<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally we reached\u00a0Castellammare del Golfo, we wandered up to the old Castle and looked back to the boats in the harbour. \u00a0It was siesta, it’s taken very seriously here.<\/p>\n

\"Approach<\/a>
Approach to Castellammare del Golfo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We took a 40 minute bus ride to Trapani, a busy port we sailed by on Monday. \u00a0As it is a commercial port, they have many additional rules to follow and the port isn’t as clean as San Vito lo Capo. Trapani has a beautiful old Centro historico and a lovely park. It is a … Continue reading San Vito lo Capo, Trapani and Couscouseria<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-ag","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}