Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Stuff forgotten

Neglected to mention that we went to Caltanisetta last week....important because it's where my father was born. Caltanisetta is very much inland so it was a different kind of scenery completely. Caltanissetta has nothing much to offer to tourists and it's an annoyingly large, busy city. We got really lucky in kind of figuring out where city offices were likely to be and more lucky to find a parking lot nearby. We got to what we thought was the right building...typical Sicilian fashion there are no signs to help you out. We found a women sitting at a desk and asked where we could get birth certificates. She took us to another office which was CLOSED for the day but she knocked on the back door and begged for us so they let us in and I now have a copy of a birth record for my father!
Boring picture of the Caltanisetta Comune (hall of records.)

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