A very interesting looking port and I thought that there was
a towering Norman castle but it had been built rather recently as a convention centre, go figure. Sicily to a large extent mountains and it looks surprisingly
green, I assume it browns off in Summer.
Our tour was in the afternoon so being in port the internet
finally worked and I was able to upload some photos of the Cocos-Keeling
Islands if you want to check them out. We went into town and successfully
bought some gelato and drinks with our limited Italian and the Sicilians’
limited English. We found the Opera
House which was quite impressive with a top that was reminiscent of the
Brandenburg Gate. Palermo is quite large
and we found the vehicle traffic in Greece similar to Australia but in Sicily
check out the parking. Just imagine every
inch of a city street with a car angled in including corners and across
pedestrian crossings. Crossing the
street was an adventure and pedestrian crossings are more of a metaphor than a reality, in fact their presence is purely decorative.
Our tour in the afternoon took us around part of the city
Massimo Theatre that featured in Godfather III, we went to the Capuchin
Catacombs. This were embalmed corpses or
skeletons on display that was a real eye opener and quite disturbing. We weren’t permitted to take photographs as
it is cemetery. The last embalmed body placed
on display was in 1920. It really was
based on wealth as there were no poor people there.
Our next stop was a Norman castle Ziya. It really was quite impressive and had a lot of steps.
Our last stop was Spasimo Church which despite the name was also really very impressive inside.
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