I am continuing our tails of the Sicily saga. After our first night without luggage in Catania, we decided the next day to wait a day to see if it would show up. Claudia was great and called and talked to the airlines our first morning while we enjoyed cappuccinos, fresh red orange juice , warm bread and pastries. The airline wasn't even able to determine where our bags were but also since we flew our last leg of our flight with a discount airline they would not send our luggage to us as we had planned to pick up our rental car and drive to Noto in Southern Sicily. We decided to stay an extra night with Claudia and the next day go to Noto regardless. Skeen was also starting to get a cold and I wanted him to get rest from jet lag. Clauia called our car rental for us too and found our at thrifty had no record of the rental which I booked through our airline milage plan! Also, the rate the web quoted didn't include the mandatory car insurance. I had called both our insurance at home and our credit card company and both had said they would cover us abroad but the car rental said they had some memo stating that credit card companies wouldn't cover Itaty, Of course I hadn't brought anything for our State Farm insurance so we would shelled out an extra 200. After we though twe had everything settled. Claudia had a call and she had new arrivals for our room! She had forgotten it had been booked and wouldn't have space for us ! She quickely called around and found a B& B about 10 minutes away . So with our map we headed down the road to the next bed. Our next hostess didn't speak English but we all did our best to interpret and read our phrase book. We spend most all of the day in our room since Skeen had his cold by now and we didn't want to do much. We went our and picked up some great pasta at the bar Claudia had pointed out to us the first night. Pesto penne and also a great eggplant and tomato pasta! The rest of the day was rather bland. The next morning we took the bus over to the airport to check on our luggage and no luck. We figured it had been taken in Rome since the airline didn't even have a note about it yet. So we picked up the car. We had hoped for a fiat and we got a ford fiesta!!! So we drove down to Noto about 1 1/2 hours. We arrive into town about 1pm and learned the hard way about italian lunches everything was closed and we couldn't find a pay phone to call the orchard owners so we could find the room at the farmhouse we were renting. Finally, I was able to get some girls closing up at a coffee shop to show us where a phone was and there happen to be a woman on the phone who spoke some english and could show me how the phone worked. I wasn't use to internation area codes and was dailing wrong. Finally we were able to get aholf of janne our land lady and she lead us to her house and citrus orchard !!!