Another week off school allowed me to visit Cefalu in the Italian island of Sicily. We stayed in Le Sabbie D’oro.
I have three strong memories from this holiday, the first was the hotel pool. It was the coldest and deepest pool I’d ever been in and as such, I had the entire pool all to myself all week. Any adult who dared to jump in, promptly jumped straight back out.
My second memory was my dad making friends with a local man who invited us back to his vineyard up in the hills, which we gratefully accepted.
The third memory was the long hot hike up the Mount Etna volcano and wishing my parents would let me ride one of the donkeys up the steep hill.