Wanted to go to Modica for a day trip by Inter-bus . Had to abandoned the day trip because Modica is 2 hrs 30 mins by bus one way so if we did make the trip , will be back in Siracusa at 10pm . It would be much too late because taxi coming at 5.45 am early morning to take us to Pozzallo port for the ferry to Malta . Need to pack too . Decided to walk to Ortigia instead and visit Archimedes & Leonardo Museum instead .

Because we had waited for 20 minutes for entrance to the museum, the lady boss after much apologies, gave us a 50% discount so we paid only €8 for both of us instead of €16 . I was pleasantly suprised by this museum because the museums descriptions were just models of inventions of Archimedes & Leonardo Da Vinci. However, the museum was interactive so you could try out the models of the inventions of Achimedes and Leonardo Da Vinci .

Anyway, that’s the gist of the museum, which was a novelty to try out all the models with a video explaining the inventions.

The taxi came very early at 5.45 am to take us to Pozzallo port for the ferry to Malta. While walking with our luggage , we wondering do we need to carry our luggage into the boat through the stairs via the gangway. However, the ferry boat had provided a luggage rack with a guy to load all luggages of passengers before going up the stairs via the gangway to the boat ! Phew ! Then as we arrived into the port in Malta , the luggage was waiting to be claimed at the site of the disembarkation .

Saw many old ” decrepet “Mat Sallehs with us on the ferry . They had walking sticks with their luggages waiting to board the ferry car to Malta with us. What struck me about them  was their willingness & spirit to travel despite their age & obvious  physical limitation so kudos to them for still wanting to  travel and see the world !