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New Clothes?!?
Oh crap I can’t BELIEVE what a lousy job I did with pix today!!! Anyway… days ago lovely Air Italia eventually emailed they had miraculously discovered our lost bag… Sam tried to engage them by email but they eventually stopped responding. Taking an educated guess, we decided to finally hunt down the Air Italia lost… Continue reading
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Let’s Check Out the Castle!
We stopped at a likely-looking place for some refreshments after the giant hot trek, turns out Europe is really getting into Halloween, honestly it’s a bit disconcerting Continue reading
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Our Final AirBnB of the Trip
We are just a bit tired of wandering around, so Sam decided we should splurge a bit at the end of the trip and get a great apartment for our final two weeks in Napoli–I did not argue one bit! So like everything, there are pluses & minuses… the pros of this place are amazing… Continue reading
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Another Transition
We were a bit in limbo, but hurrah Sam has found us an AirBnB to last our entire time in Napoli! Before that, we have one more night on the familiar east side, still at our comfortable Hotel San Pietro. My photos are a bit scrambled somehow, so the following will be a bit random,… Continue reading
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Still no plan
So where the heck were we?? Oh yeah, no plan, no life, etc. Who knew getting Airbnbs to talk to you was so difficult!! Sam has been finding great-looking places and reaching out, but no one replies! “Hi, I want to book your Airbnb for two weeks!” Reply: crickets… why??? Don’t people who list their… Continue reading
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But Where Do We Go Now?!?
Our trip thus far has been tightly choreographed from months ago: Napoli, Catania, Siracusa, Catania, Messina, Palermo, Malta, ????? We left the second half of the trip completely open, figuring we’d return to some place in Sicily now that we sort of knew the lay of the land. But we’re a bit Sicilied-out by now,… Continue reading
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Lunch and Dinner in Valletta
It was a PIA any which way you slice it but I absolutely loved our day in Valletta Malta!! Continue reading
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The Cathedral of Palermo
Like most of the big European cathedrals, this one was built over an earlier one, which itself was built an over one… you get the point. The Phoenicians were first here as usual, then the Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans… supposedly much of the current structure dates from 1185. It is both huge and confusing. We… Continue reading
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Short day in Palermo
This was pretty crazy–I love these sorts of experiences, and they don’t come often any more, when we’re always stuck to Google Maps on our phones. Anyway, we had picked a pretty random street, and then a random direction and were walking through Palermo, and by complete surprise this amazing castle-like place opened up in… Continue reading