Today is our last day in Palermo. My friend Francesco who lives locally has been out of town on business all weekend so we had not managed to get together, but he got back from northern Italy last night and we got together for breakfast this morning. So while Dominica and the kids were packing …
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March 13, 2017: San Giuseppe Jato
Monday morning. We started our day in our apartment in Palermo this morning, but today is our big exciting trip to Dominica’s family’s home village of San Giuseppe Jato to the south of Palermo. This is the real reason that we are in Palermo in the first place. The village is thirty one kilometers from …
March 12, 2017: Walking Palermo
Sunday and our second full day in Palermo. Tomorrow is our outing to go to Dominica’s family’s home village. But today we are just in the city. Today I went out for a really long walk doing a few miles around Palermo to get a feel for the place. I walked far enough from our …
March 11, 2017: Palermo
It is Saturday and our first full day in Palermo having arrived by train in the dark last night. We have just a little Internet access this morning. There was nothing last night. But it is very slow and mostly useless, even just for looking up things to do around town. We tried making coffee …
March 10, 2017: Heading to Palermo
Friday. We spent yesterday in Noto so that I could keep being productive with work so today is our travel day to get up to Palermo – our one real solid sightseeing event during our time on Sicily. We are pretty excited to get to see the capital. We were up very early this morning …