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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!
... saw his travel log, he knew that Columbus had reached a new land and gave it his own name.
Nuccio also told me a great story about the origin of "ciao." In medieval Venice in order to avoid a fight with a stranger, you would say, "Io sonno tu sciavo", I am your slave. But in Venetian dialect, the hard c sound of sciavo is pronounce shiavo. This inevitably was shortened to just ciao.
It was nice to be part of the family before embarking on the next phase of ...
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 ...
Noto
... at a place recommended by our host and it was great...more raviolis and ignocci. We are on a kick! Who has the best in the land! The streets were windy, but not as bad as some of the other places we have visited, but we certainly did get lost trying to leave for Siracusa. Poor Lloyd. He will be so glad when this driving madness is over. From Noto, we decided to go to the Vendicare Reserve on the way to Siracusa. A lovely place where birds migrate ...
Ode to GRANITA!!!!!
... which is called the granita!!!! *pause for dramatic effect* He brought his fabulous daughter a simple drink that changed our lives forever. He placed a small plastic cup on the table. The contents of this cup appeared to be a what we Australians call a 'slushie', but this drink proved to be much more than what was seen t first glance. As they say, don't judge a book by its cover, or in this case don't judge a Granita by its glass. Vanessa took the first sip, ...
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