Amici Agrigento

... a few children dress in costumes, it is not a prevalent custom. But all children enjoy the fun of dressing up, so Halloween has begun to take on the flavor of the more secular and fun-filled trick and treat night of the USA. However, the non-religious aspect of the date is frowned upon here...Tradition is important in Italy.

... 8230;nur dass es in unserem kleiderschrank auch slips gibt (insider).

Dazu zwei toiletten und zwei duschen... und wenn man die aircon genügend laufen lässt, kann man diese sogar betreten ohne dass einem die glutofenhitze einen herzinfarkt androht (evi findet, ich unterkühle die baracke übermässig.naja….ich finds schööööön).

Bei Agrigento gibt's das ‚valle dei templi‘, was wir als das tal der tempel zu
übersetzen glaubten ...

... views! we also went to Mount Etna and got to walk along craters and everything! it was so great!!! Hopefully I can write more at a later date!

Tomorrow back to Dublin then sat off to ICELAND!!!!! Vigdis is picking me up from the airport she said WEAR YOUR PARTY DRESS CAUSE WERE GOING PARTYING!!! Wooohoooo hah this is going to be GREAT!

... for ferry for about 4 hours at a café at terminal. Overnight ferry was 10 hours. We reserved an outside double cabin which had 2 beds and private bath, window to look outside. Through SNAV about E$150. Beautiful sunset and sunrise. You go past Mount Vesuvius, which makes for great pictures. We recommend this trip.

Naples is a dirty town and would not recommend staying or visiting there.

Day 6 – Day 9: Cefalu ...

... of them date back to the iron and bronze ages and some date back to 3000 BC... Sicily holds a tremendous amount of history. I took many pictures at the museum but i'm just going to upload a few pictures of the temples for your viewing pleasure as you wake up. Then i'm off to the beach for the evening.

... because it extends back so far.... Anyways, it was fun and crazy, just the way I like it. It was sad to leave this morning :( I missed the 9:30 bus so I hung out with my new freinds in their shop while I waited for the 2pm bus. Well it's thrunderstorming in Agrigento now so maybe I wont get to see the temples today :( Finally, bad weather in Italy.

... I decided I was very hungry because I had not ate anything today. I found out Cammarata does not know what a restaurant is and that were in one in San Geovani. Well, when I got to the piazza in San Geovani, I asked a few more people where a restoraunt was and everyone seemed to have an idea of where a restorante may be, but when I got to where they said to go, I found nothing. It was a cat and mouse chase here, quite a fiasco, a duck hunt to ...

Sono arrivato a Cammarata oggi. Holy cow, the view is so beautiful. When I first got off the train, I spoke to a girl from here and since I didn't know when the bus would be arriving to go to Cammarata from the train stop, I said I was walking there and she called me crazy. I realized I was crazy when I turned the corner of the building to see just how far up a mountain Cammarata was. Well, I started out on the 7-8 Km hike to Cammarata and finally ...

... an ice cream truck there and I was very hot, so I had a hazelnut gelato for Jackie (so it doesn't count). We browsed through the museum and saw all kinds of artifacts found at the site of the temples, most being from the 3rd and 4th centuries. All the explanations were in Italian, so we didn't really learn anything about them! As we left the museum, several school groups and tours were arriving, so our timing was good. By the time we ...

... pick a spot. The views of the sea were excellent. Glad we went early as the place filled up with tourist quickly. In closing, the approach of Easter has made for some nice window shopping. The Italians spend a lot of time staging their window displays. Shop window are exploding with chocolate eggs and marzipan lambs. "Tutto" (a very useful word that means "everything." We use this word quite liberally and are tuttoing all the time). Shi and Gabe