Here's Sicily. I misspoke....we're NOT on the Mediterranean. We're on the Tyrrenian Sea. The Mediterranean is to the south and west. The Ionian Sea is to the east and the Tyrrenian is to the north which is where we are. Our apartment is in a great location...walking distance from town and our bedroom is on the ocean side of the building so we hear the ocean and not too much in the way of traffic noise.
Yesterday we drove up the coast to Messina and stopped in a small town called Sant' Agata where we had this fabulous buffet antipasto lunch with some house wine and good bread. In Messina, we could look across the strait to mainland southern Italy. It looks close enough to throw a rock across. Day before yesterday we drove into the mountains to a small village where there is a church that's the site of a pilgrimage because they make a medicine from the resin of an alder tree that grows there. The medicine cures everything apparently and is sold all over the place. It's called manna, like manna from heaven I suppose.
The ocean is the most incredible, beautiful blue, This was a typical view on the drive up the coast.
This is a big weekend here. April 25 is "Liberation Day." (From what???? I don't know but apparently it's a big deal.) There's also a VESPER INTERNATIONAL gathering here 4/24-4/26 (I really regret you're not here to enjoy it Bob Harrington since I know how you would love it!!) Last night there was some big concert/celebration of all these really special things and it took us an hour to go the 5 minutes from the freeway exit to our apartment.......sigh....just like home!
Jo, you would be very proud....I'm wearing my pedometer (most of the time) and we're definitely getting our steps in. I didn't wear it in Amsterdam where I think the steps would have exceeded the pedometer's max!
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