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THE ROCKING IS OVER WE'RE ON LAND YESSSSS
... met up with a few crew members at a cafe where there is good wifi. I was able to have a video chat with my mama before heading back to the ship.
I watched Silhouette the show for the 7th and 8th time and watched the movie Goon. On a side tangent, this movie is hilarious and since parts of it were filmed in Winnipeg it made me very happy to watch while being so far away from home. ...
Nuccio is an excellent tour guide
... lunch). Chiesa di Santa Lucia al Sepolcro has the first Caravaggio painting I've seen outside of a museum, and it's beautiful. Unfortunately, no photos allowed. We visit the Duomo which is built on top of the ancient Temple of Minerva. Finally we see Apollo's Temple, built in 600 BC, which seems oddly out of place in the city center.
I'll miss my Italian family! Hope to see you again soon.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Sono grata per tute le experienzie che mi ho piacuto queste anno, mi salute e mi amici.
There was even turkey. Non mi e macato a casa.
Eunice's parents, Marta and Nuccio are lovely. They live in the country, above a small village called Giarratana in southern Sicily with Lula and her 4 cat friends; Picolo, Grigia and the 2 Neros. The views are beautiful. It's winter here, and kind of cold, but in spring I'm sure that Nuccio has plenty to do with his olive, ...
Sicily sucks
... We We walk up to the crater and the landscape is so barren, practically nothing grows here. Because of the low cloud, there isn't even a view of Catania below. We don't stay long at all. I had been looking forward to seeing Etna, but now I wonder why. Even Marty is unimpressed and it doesn't take much to please him. We get back in the car and I'm all for heading back and calling it quits, but Paul wants to push onto a small town at the other end of the island, about fifty kms away. I ...
Part 1 - Rome to Sicily
... to read other traveller's reviews of a place you know, and you often wonder what is going through their minds, for example "I would not recommend you to stay at the Ortygia Sea view bed and breakfast for the folowing (sic) reasons: Location is not very good as it is not in a very safe area of Ortygia. Building is very scary and in poor condition: cut throat alley". Well, it was definitely cut-throat alley, but the throats cut were of the fish and ...