Saturday, Sept 26 to Palermo

The B&B owner took us to the train station. We had gone down the day before and discussed routes with the local ticket guy. Decided to go the longer route as it was the shorter time.. There was a two hour layover, which would give us time for lunch. The route went south to Catannia where we would change trains, to go northeast through the center of Sicily. The train was supposed to leave at 10:17. On the train schedule board were the letters "SOP". I asked a local woman if she knew what that ment, she did not. Finally a policeman came along and told us we were going by bus to Catannia. Now you have to realize there are several stations along this train line that the train would have stopped. Both before it got to us and between us and Catannia. It might have been only 60 km by train, but by bus it was not. When the bus arrived a little after 11am, it would go into each town from the highway to the train stations. Drop and pick people up. Our long layover was no more! We arrived about 1:00. The ladies with us for a day outing in Catannia had missed the connecting train. Don't know what they did. Our connecting 1:30 train was there already. Grabbed  some little pizza looking items and climbed on board. Interesting farm country as we cut inland.