Mambo Italiano!

It only took me a month and three weeks... but I finally made it to Italy!!!!!

Sicily to be more precise.
Palermo to be even more precise.

Another day off the ship with the gift shop staff. I'm really glad to have fallen in with a collection of the crew that is completely unaffiliated with the entertainment department.

This was right at the end of the gangway. Around here you start looking for the crew shuttle, but we didn't find one, so we assumed there wasn't one... alas we headed out on foot!

Carriage rides are really popular here, apparently. Or really popular to try to sell.

The point of this picture is the ancient building on the mountain top. Don't know what it is but it's really cool. If you click on this picture it will enlarge so you can see it better.

First Italian Pizzeria sighting!

HORSEY!

Flavored oils in every color of the rainbow.

Awesome gnarly tree.

I really loved these trees.

Real bruschetta in real Italy. It kinda looked like crap compared to what I was expecting, but it was absofrigginlutely delicious. I have grown very fond of tomatos since coming onboard, can't explain that, just have. I followed the bruschetta with some pasta with mussels. It was good, but not what I had built up Itailian pasta to be in my mind.

Everything is falling apart a little bit, but not to the point where it looks trashy, it just looks perfectly used.

ME! In the alley behind me is where we had lunch.

Still only have one thing on my mind!!! :D

We couldn't decide if this was a post office or a newspaper office.

I really like this picture, has a very cool lighting quality to it.

It's hard to tell but the whole right side of the street was lined with scooters.

We definitely got lost in a slummy area. But saw some cool graffiti there. We turned around after I got this picture.

At the end of the day, we had failed to find a single wifi spot. But we did manage to find a corner store that sold us lots of big beers. In the picture is Marisol, who actually finished her contract in Athens 2 days later. This was the first place we (accidentally) found (unadvertised) wifi. So we squatted outside of this unopen restaurant for about an hour and a half until I had to be back for rehearsal.

Little iron-work statue that I thought was quite funny.