Day tour of Monreale and Mondello, Sicily, Italy - The Monreale cathedral and the beach in Mondello. We also had a great lunch in Mondello. The restaurant is called il Gabbiano, which sits right on the edge of the beach.

INTERESTING DAY - Monreale is a must see and including Mondello, a beach town near Palermo, was an interesting contrast. Mimmo was very pleasant and professional. He was very punctual. Dropped us off to see Monreale and dropped at Mondello and returned at agreed spot and right on time. Monreale had a lot of scaffolding; difficult to follow audioguide and locate discussed points of interest. However, Monreale deserves UNESCO designation. Mondello was fun as able to swim. Takes a little ingenuity.

Despite the weather very informative - So informed friendly and professional. Unfortunately we encountered horrible rainstorms during our visit, but our driver was so well informed he helped saved the day

Limited guidance and information - These are both beautiful areas and we enjoyed seeing them however unless you buy your ticket for the cathedral ahead of time you can spend half the time spending in line. The beach village was great if you are going to swim but for shopping there was really nothing there except restaurants and some had a limited menu for lunch. Our tour guide seemed very nice and I think would be very knowledgeable however our guide was changed due to a last minute emergency but we were not advised the guide spoke very little English and we dont speak Italian so it wasn't what we expected.