Arrivederci Palermo
Today we leave Palermo for the next stop on our Sicilian journey. Palermo is a somewhat gritty city, loud, chaotic, crumbling in places, a feast for the senses, full of color, with all of the tourist-focused bling that screams, "you have to take me home with you!" For the most part, I loved it. Paul and I are city people so we enjoy the energy of people just going about their daily lives. We visited Palermo during Settimana Santa (Holy Week) so we saw some of the processions leading up to Easter. On Sunday morning , the city was quiet except for the sound of the church bells ringing. Generally though, traffic, both motorized and pedestrian, is heavy in the city. We expected to see a lot of motorcycles but one thing that surprised us was people riding these scooters in traffic without helmets. Our Italian teacher lives near Cefalù and rides her scooter every workday to the train...