Cruise Day 3 - Palermo

Hello from Palermo. Today is day 3 and our first Italian port of call. Palermo is very crowded, yet also very pretty. I was surprised at how mountainous it was. There was quite the mixture of old and modern. Again, the drivers in Sicily match, almost, the drivers in Paris!

Anyhow, this morning we slept in a little. I was up at 9:00, but Kirstyn didn’t get up until 10:00. We got up, checked out our email, then went to get some breakfast. It was actually lunch, as they stopped serving breakfast at 10:30, and it was almost 11:00. We took our time getting to lunch, as we checked out Palo’s on the way. After lunch we strolled some more, then made our way back to the cabin to get ready for our excursion.

Today we did the “Mysterious Palermo” tour. We started off with a panoramic tour of Palermo until we got to our first stop, the Spasimo church. It was built in the 16th century. It was rather beautiful. On our way to our next stop we had a Gelato break. I mixed my flavours. I had sour cherry, lemon and strawberry. My favourite was the lemon; however, Kirstyn liked the sour cherry.

Our next stop was the catacombs. We couldn’t take any pictures inside, so I got some postcards. In the catacombs are remains of people; some were skeletons, and some were mummified. There is a two year girl that died at the age of two in 1920. Her body was mummified and is in excellent condition. The problem is that the person that mummified her died before he had time to tell anyone how they did it. Our next stop after the catacombs was the Ziza castle. It was built in the 12th century by the Normans. Some of the floors crumbled, and a lot of secrets were revealed; such as how they got water running through the castle from the palace.

On the way back to the ship, we ran into the traffic issues. I’m amazed there aren’t more traffic fatalities in Sicily. We made it back to the ship with 15 minutes to spare. It was cool, as Pluto was waiting to greet us as we boarded. Tonight we are hoping to make it an early night as our excursion leaves at 8:00 am. (At least I’m hoping to!) I’ll hopefully add more later, and maybe some photos. Ciao!

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