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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Sicilian impressions — Catania Market
The morning crowd at the Catania Fish Market. The group in the lower right is buying herring (or mackerel?) from a fisherman who has just brought them in from his boat. He’s pulling out handfuls, weighing them, and taking … Continue reading
Roman Holiday, September 14, 2013
If you were a Roman in the old days, you would not go to Ostia on a holiday. These days, you might, just to look at what was left of a bustling Roman community. We went to Ostia (means “mouth,” and is located where … Continue reading
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Tagged Capuchin Ossuary, Il Foccacia, Ostia, Piazza Navona, ruins, Tiber, Trevi Fountain
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Rome, the Eternal City, September 13, 2013
Bernini’s altarpiece, and his “Dove” alabaster window in St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome. Guess the eternal city is a good description for the day, because we spent a sizable chunk of it seeing the Vatican Museums and St. Peter’s Basilica. The … Continue reading
Veni, Vidi, Vici, Rome, September 21, 2013
View from the Aventine Hill, with St. Peter’s dome, and the Tiber in the foreground. Or, as Regina says, “We came, we saw, we ate gelato.” Our last day in Rome was sunny, hot, and involved some thirteen miles of … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Grottiino, Aventine Hill, Cosmati marble inlay, Inca Cola, Knights of Malta, Piazza di Mattei, Santa Maria de Cosmedin, Santa Maria di Maggiore, Smurf, St. Alessio's, St. Sabrina's, St. Valentin, Taste of Trastevere, Teatro di Marcello, turtle fountain
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Sicily to Rome, September 20, 2013
At 8:15 this morning, we said good-bye to Tom and Peg, who are on their way to see Tom’s cousins and relatives in Termini-Imerse near Palermo, and to Guiseppe at Hotel Trieste. Aetna was steaming as we passed her on … Continue reading
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Tagged Aetna, Campo di Fiori, Catania, Circus Maximus, fishing, gelato, obelisk, Piazza San Croce in Gerusalmme, Sicily, St. John Lateran, Termini-Imerse, Tiber
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Taormina, a Haiku-ish version, September 19, 2013
It’s 10:30 p.m. and we have to be up early to catch our flight back to Rome. The program that I usually use for photos has stopped working this evening, we’ve been plied with delicious liqueurs by the restaurant and … Continue reading
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Tagged Amaro, Eat Pizzaria, funicular, Hotel Trieste, Isola Bella, limoncello, Mediterranean, strawberry granita, Taormina
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Mount Aetna, September 18, 2013
On the flanks of Mt. Aetna at about 6,000 feet, looking at the 2001-2002 lava flows. The poles for the old funicular have been abandoned, and a new one built alongside to take people up to about 9,000 feet (the … Continue reading
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Tagged funicular, Hotel Trieste, lava, lava tubes, Mt. Aetna, Nero d'Avola grapes, pesto, Silvestri craters, Simpson's, tagliatelle
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“Siracusa — the most beautiful of all Greek cities” — Cicero
The coastline of Ortygia, the island connected to Siracusa. This was one of my desires in coming to Italy — blue Mediterranean sea stretching to the horizon, under a warm sun. Would Cicero say the same about Siracusa today? I … Continue reading
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Tagged Archimedes, Arethusa, Catania fish market, Cicero, flag of Sicily, Medusa, Ortygia, runonthewater blog, sea urchins, Sicilians, Siracusa
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