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THE ROCKING IS OVER WE'RE ON LAND YESSSSS
It was nice to wake up to a non rocking ship. It may be hard for some of you to understand what it is like to try and function while a ship is rocking. It makes even simple tasks like eating, brushing your teeth and showering very awkward. Sleeping is difficult as well especially when you feel nauseous...
We didn't have too much time in Catania together since Rochelle's show got ...
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
... have to head out towards the station to find the other car hire place. Again, the area near the station is quite unattractive and we wouldn't want to be here at night. The man in the car place is supremely unfriendly and doesn't speak a whole lot of English and whilst we will make valiant attempts, hiring a car is just a way too complicated process to try and undertake without vocabulary. He won't give Paul the car he wants, just says its no longer available and we have to take a small ...
Part 1 - Rome to Sicily
... chili).
Tropea is only about 100kms from Sicily, but the going was very slow because of roadworks, and I could see my father visibly frustrated by the time we were taking to get there. We finally reached the ferry at Villa San Giovanni, crossed the strait (the normal tradition for Sicilians is to eat an arancino as a sort of "rite of passage" prior to arriving, but we missed it this time), wended our way through Messina to the autostrada, and ...
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