From a sea side town

It is amazing how different a country can appear from a main capital city to the quaint shore towns that make up the countryside. The capital city of Palermo was a bit sad with the huge amount of polution including both air and noise, the dilapidated state of most of its landmarks and buildings in general not to mention the crime we were continuously warned about. Nothing like being woken up at 6am by the sound of nails being drilled into a wall like 10 feet away. We never figured out where they were doing, but suffice to say we were up early this morning.

Instead of staying another night (we are nothing if not quick learners) we decided to head to a quiet little sea side town just about an hour outside of Palermo. The weather in memorial to the Pope has been raining off and on, and more on than off for a couple of days now, however that did not dampen our spirits as we took off in our rental car to find this great restaurant written up in the travel book. Now if you have not been to Euope before picture streets that are literally 10ft wide with cars parked on one side. Not much room to drive comfortably let alone uncomfortable. Add to that the fact that streets, dead ends, and one way boulevards are unmarked at all lead to very interesting car tales. I will hand it to my father he can back down three blocks with inches to spare on either side in a diseal stick shift like no ones business. Props off to him as the rest of us cower in the back seat unable to look.

One more full day and we begin our journey back home. Lots of great stories and even more pictures to share. As for now I bid you all Ciao.