Favignana island (the island of goats in Homer's Odyssey) was lovely with a spectacular high ridge in the centre of the island with a commanding fort built for Catherine of Aragon on the highest point. Favignana is a local (ie Sicilian) tourist destination but not many non Italian visitors and so hardly any English spoken. After Portuguese, Spanish and French this summer we're now trying to learn a few words of italian. I confused a shopkeeper in Favignana by saying thank you in Portuguese! We had a wonderful dinner watching Palermo beat juventus in the Italian Football league - a very popular result - absolutely no-one in the restaurant cheered for juventus! The restaurant was on the quayside and of course the "menu" was almost exclusively fresh fish but what was particularly special was the whole tuna on the counter - steaks were just sliced off and put on the wood fire grill - basic but marvellous. Favignana was a major tuna port and the old warehouses line the harbour - but now its a centre for tuna conservation (apparently)!