This place lived up to all the descriptions, reviews and our desperate need for an all-encompassing, peaceful, right-on-the-turquoise-water-sandy-beach October break. Amazing to enjoy 23+ C temperatures and swim, swim, swim every single day. Spacious apartment, beds all comfortable, modern kitchen well equipped, plenty of hot water in both showers, perfect 10 minute walk from all the yummy restaurants and entertaining local community activities. Fishermen bringing fresh catch to port every morning, vast selection of fresh fruit and veg at open stalls, classic evening strolling and chatting in all the squares and streets. One of the loveliest things about Favignana is the paucity of international tourists; all you hear is Italian, which lends to the immersive experience which is hard to find. Apparently, Favignana has never had much international tourism - mostly Italian. Doesn't THAT tell you something!?? And nobody apologises for not speaking much English. Wonderful. We hired push bikes from https://www.noleggioscooterfavignana.com for 4Euros per day, but found we could happily walk 30 minutes across the North to South to visit other beaches. One of our favourites was Calamoni, where you can hire a sun lounger with a parasol and have a Negroni from the bar...utter decadence. We also enjoyed an hour's hike up to Santa Katerina castle, (no silly health-and-safety limitations here, so take care!) and a 45 min (English) tour of the local Tuna Factory Museum (6 Euros). Really interesting to find out more about the fantastic history of the tuna fishing of Favignana. We had a day's excursion back to Sicily island and up the "funivare" from Trapani to ERICE, an amazing medieval town with a gloriously colorful history. We got back to our lovely apartment in plenty of time to jump into the turquoise water before another glorious meal at Osteria.
I've come away wondering how, in 65 yrs of significant travel in Europe, I never knew about this magical place. If you're after a total break from our mad world, this the spot. Just don't tell too many people. I'm already planning to book Giovanni's again in 2021, its a perfect place in a great location. (SSSHHHHHHHH!)