{"id":3531,"date":"2014-11-25T16:42:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T00:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2014-12-08T04:57:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T12:57:52","slug":"one-horse-open-palermo-sicily-11252014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3531","title":{"rendered":"One Horse Open \u2013 Palermo, Sicily \u2013 [11\/25\/2014]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"girl_with_the_umbrella_by_justalilodreamer\"<\/a>It\u2019s fair to admit that my memories of my last call in Palermo are somewhat\u2026fuzzy. Lost in the haze of good friends, good food and Italian house red; days like that get freeze framed, you remember the individual moments clearly \u2013 as though they were sculpted in stained glass \u2013 but the actual physical paths you took to get to those moments? Those you don\u2019t remember. So when KitKat and I got off the ship this morning and she asked if she knew where I was going I was forced to admit that I had no particular goal in mind.<\/p>\n

I had places I would have liked to find<\/em> but was lost as to how to find them.<\/p>\n

So ultimately we looked at each other, shrugged, discussed it briefly, and ended up in the back of a horse-drawn tour carriage, letting someone else do the finding for us.<\/p>\n

Definitely a good choice.<\/p>\n

We lucked out, and got an excellent guide, who not only was genuinely friendly, but trusted us enough to have us pay after <\/em> the tour (because we had to stop at a bank machine to do so) and paused frequently so that he could take pictures for us, and slowed down every<\/em> time KitKat had her camera raised (which is frequently, my twin is a bit of a shutterbug). As a result, I\u2019m pretty sure the hour tour that we paid for ended up being nearer to an hour and a half, but \u2026was worth it.<\/p>\n

Palermo is a working city, it\u2019s crowded, the traffic is crazy (and trying to cross the street can be taking your life in your hands even if the lights are supposedly in your favour) but if you take the time to actually look<\/em> it\u2019s a lovely little port. Well, not that little really. The tour took us past all three opera houses, past the fountain that was considered too scandalous even for Florence, and ultimately ended up dropping us just steps from the ship. Which put us just in time for lunch. One thing I did remember what that there is a really yummy pizza place right near one of the opera houses, I even remembered which<\/em> opera house, but again with the how to get there.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of those places you can\u2019t find until you fall on top of it<\/em><\/p>\n

Those are the best ones! <\/em><\/p>\n

I know! But I can\u2019t remember how to fall on it!<\/em><\/p>\n

And we wander around a corner<\/p>\n

Ah ha! There it is!<\/em><\/p>\n

So at long last I got my proper Italian pasta, which means I can now leave Italy a very happy girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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