2wk itinerary in Sicily….good?

It is fast paced, but doable, IMO. I thought Taormina was pretty, busy, AND touristy. 2 hours was enough for us. Loved Randazzo instead for 3 nights. If you can work out luggage storage you could do Cefalu on the way to Palermo/

It is fast paced but do think it is as good as you can do with the time you have.

Do be careful with stopping with luggage. The advice is not to. But if you do, make luggage is covered in trunk and do not take anything out after you park. Carry everything that cannot easily be replaced with you.

You might turn in car in Cefalu and take train. You do not want a car in Palermo and the airport is outside town. Works when you arrive but not so much later.

Thank you Jules & Beth!

Jules, I love your idea about Cefalu and will consider it.

Beth, I couldn’t agree more, and also worried about stopping in route at Noto. When we traveled by car in Ireland, after flying in, we stopped to site see. Some punks got into our locked trunk & stole our luggage. It was horrific! Wasted 1 1/2 days shopping for luggage & clothes at our next stop instead of site seeing the beautiful town. Plus note….we had all our cash, credit cards, or passports with us. Also, the
Irish Police were so gracious, and did locate 1 pc of *full luggage, which they returned to us at the end of our trip (had to drive to the police station).

Then just skip Noto. You will have visited several other Baroque towns. I would think after your experience you would have a hard time relaxing enough to enjoy yourself.

You can always go visit from Siracusa, leaving your luggage in your hotel.

You’ll be chugging along at a good clip, but I agree that it is doable. Since you’ll have a car, you might want to head straight out to explore Trapani that arrival day. I’d strongly suggest you take the cable car up to Erice rather than drive. There’s also a bus. Parking is impossible, as is the case in most small towns. Take a sweater—it’s much cooler and breezier than Trapani. In September, with a cardigan and jacket I was almost warm enough! Since you’ll have a car, you might want to consider a morning at the salt flats/museum. We enjoyed that and you can’t get there by public transport without jumping through a lot of hoops.

I thought I'd just ad that we did a day trip to Noto from Siracusa. We really enjoyed Baroque Noto. We took the train. The train station is at the bottom of the hill that the old town of Noto sits on. I was told it is also possible to take a bus to Noto from Siracusa. The bus stop is at the top of the hill.

Yes, its easy to take the cable car up to Erice. We used a bus to get to the cable car.