This is a comfortable small holiday house with extensive and beautiful gardens, including a vegetable garden, outdoor kitchen and covered dining area and small ponds. It's possible to spend almost all of the time outside while protected from the sun. We spent 17 days at the house in Trabia, it is a short walk into the town, shorter to a small beach where many locals go and where it is possible to swim in the sea. In Trabia, as is the case in much of Sicily, the local people are very nice indeed with visitors. There is a first class butchers, the man who sells vegetables at the cross roads has the best deals of local produce, you can buy fresh bread and, naturally, there are many opportunities to buy gelato! Also, not forgetting, that many shops sell wine from local wine cooperatives for 3 euro for 2 litres, and, I can assure you, this wine is first class.

We did not have a car and this never proved a real problem for us because local trains are regular and cheap, around 3.50 euro one way to Palermo or Cefalu, both accessible within an hour by train. And I recommend visiting both. If you go with small children a car might be advisable though as you need to walk along a main road to the town. The house is close to the road (not on the road but tucked away up a driveway and around a bend) and the railway lines, but we were never disturbed by traffic on either, which are hidden from all parts of the house and grounds.

Mariella and Francesca were very helpful and generous hosts, Mariella collected us from the station and Francesca returned us there at the end of our visit. I highly recommend their house and hope to visit again.