Trapani with a toddler in Dec 2017 We were there for 8 days in December with a 14-month-old toddler and we had an amazing time in Annalisa and Nino’s apartment! If you want to know about travelling to Sicily in the winter (with or without the baby), see below. The Hosts: Nino and Annalisa are wonderful hosts (and we’re tough to please…)! Even before we flew to Sicily they answered a tonne of our questions (it was our first time flying with a baby, 1st time in Sicily and we were arriving on Christmas Eve!) They found out for us which restaurants would be open and even pre-ordered food for us to pick-up. Nino was a treasure of travel info, he sent me 19 google maps pins with restaurants, stores, places to visit, kids’ playgrounds and even a car wash when I needed it. That really helped! Thanks! The Apartment: it’s a very nice apartment, 2 bedrooms (one for parents and one for kids with a bunkbed) and large kitchen/livingroom/diningroom area. It has a balcony and there is a terrace upstairs. Everything is clean and new. The location is excellent – we walked around Trapani center (the apartment is in the center), there is a large free parking lot about 200m from the building, restaurants, bakeries, cafes – all minutes away. We definitely recommend it! Nino and Annalisa gave us a cot and a chair for our son, the kitchen had all utensils, etc. Travelling in Sicily in the Winter: We live in Slovakia (read: its cold here in the winter), so we wanted to go to a place that will be sunnier and warmer, but we didn’t expect to have tropical weather. It was nice and sunny, rained only 1.5 days out of 8, temperatures around 15 degrees during the day and around 8-10 at night. But, one thing we didn’t know (and you need to know if you are thinking of going there in the winter): Sicilians mostly don’t heat up their apartments in the winter. They seem to have a different approach to cold – they seem to take it as a regular part of their lives a few months per year. So they walk around in sweaters and hats and scarves outside (even though to me it was warm enough to walk around in a t-shirt) and they do the same in the stores (unheated) and the seem to do the same in their homes because these are also UNHEATED. In fact, during the day the windows are often wide-open. Back home, we don’t over-heat our apartment as well – we’re used to 19-20 degrees, at night 18.5; but here the temperature in the unheated apartment was 14 degrees the first night (brr!) and 17.5 in the following nights. The first night was so cold because the house stood unused for a few months and it took time to warm it up. We decided to try it the “Sicilian way” – we’d heat up the bedroom...