Day 32 Monday 21 October Camping La Focetta de Sicula near Taoramina
I did a pile of laundry with the assistance of the very kind patient Italian camp site owner , with much miming re token fetching, soap inserting , time of wash etc , it was very amusing  for both of us .
Showers were clean,  a little old, 50c ( just enough time ) fed into a machine outside all the showers .The cold water shower to rinse off the beach sand was just as warm. The beach was long  and sandy , the water warm and calm, great sunsets, on the edge of a sea side  resort   called San Alessio Sicula.
 A day of rest and cleaning the van. I found an MD supermarket around a very busy corner from the campsite , no pavements and found chocolate soya milk , what a treat 😀 but no rooibos tea  for Andy🙁 anywhere to be seen ..

We met an older English couple from Whitehaven in Cumbria on the site, an ex -Sellafield worker and his wife Gwen an ex domestic science teacher . It dawned on each of us that we had voted differently in the referendum and we both tacitly withdrew from any further meaningful conversation.

We caught the bus to Taoramina at 5 pm and wandered around this beautiful hill top town , the Florence Trevalyan gardens with great views of Mount Etna from the terraces and took lots of photos.We found a small quiet affordable restaurant to eat yet more pizza whilst listening to the Sicilian wandering band entertain the tourists in the street below . We found a cool jazz bar in the side streets which sold craft beer called the Sicilian equivalent of King of Clubs card in  the Tarot, ( Tarot was  devised in the Arab kingdoms in the 14 Century and   introduced to the Western world via Italy and Sicily ) The journey back to the campsite on the brand new , last bus home called in at every hill top village between Taoramina and the coast, the hairpin bends , the occasional flash of lights from the coast far far below as we gradually  weaved our way down to the coast  were best  experienced in  the dark , but skilfully  navigated by our calm driver .
Taoramina very lively , up market, but stuffed with tourists and tour groups .It's beautiful and better appreciated at the very start of a shoulder season I suspect .