Erice (and Cannoli)

Day two of our Italy holiday G and I took a cable car from Trapani to the historic town of Erice.

The town of Erice is on top of Mount Erice, about 750m above sea level.  It has incredible views over Trapani.

Erice itself is a beautiful old medieval town with gorgeous little cobbled streets and buildings. 

Unfortunately, however, like so many of Italy's gorgeous little towns, it's been rather overtaken by tourist stores selling all manner of tourist tat.

One of the shops we visited that I would recommend was a delicious pastry store selling cannoli. 

This is the pastry store that was or is owned by the woman who wrote Bitter Lemons.   G and I absolutely gorged ourselves! 

Thankfully, the cable car down the mountain was still able to hold our weight, and we rolled back into Trapani that evening.