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THE ROCKING IS OVER WE'RE ON LAND YESSSSS
... to the rocking of the ship the day before she had a mid day rehearsal. So we went into Catania which we had already ventured through when I was cruising with my parents. Rosie and I just shopped a bit, go wifi and ate arranchini's (those amazing rice balls that need to come to North America, they are unreal)
I ended up staying in port for awhile after Rochelle went back to the ...
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!
... And we figured out how to convert C to F- not an easy task in a house with no internet, but a beautiful, old set of encyclopedias: F = (C x 9/5) + 32
I've never bragged about my knowledge of history, but how could I have not known how America got its name? Americo Vespuci was a navigator that followed Christopher Columbus to "India." When Columbus arrived in America he had been heading for India- apparently, that's why he called the Native Americans Indians. ...
Sicily sucks
... we have to return the car and be back on the boat by 4-30 and we have had both our passports stolen, plus all my credit cards, money, international drivers licence, iPod, my camera with all our holiday photos and worst of all, they also have Marty. We are devastated but have no choice but to go back to the boat and try and report the theft, otherwise we will be stranded in Catania with nothing and the boat will also be gone. Paul drops me at the port while he returns the car and then ...
Part 1 - Rome to Sicily
... by the time I left and I wasn't going to make it back to Floridia until very late so I decided to stop around 9pm. I happened to be near Taormina, but rather than staying there, I stayed in Letojanni on the coast below, and had a great seafood meal at Ristorante da Nino - antipasto of sea urchins, fried patties of tiny white fish (neonati, between 1-2cms long), and a large prawn stuffed with cream of fennel; first plate of pasta with sea urchin ...
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