Saturday, July 17, 2010

Yes, more about food in Italia

Eating our way across Palermo.

Palermo is stunning, especially if you approach it from the mountains to the West, where you can see th ecity drip down into the port. Then you arrive, and it's completely crazy driving, confusing street signs, hard to orient yourself.

We figured it out, dropped the packs off at the hostel, figured out where to drop off the car in the nick of time, and relaxed with a cappucino. or two.

We went back to the hostel (Casa di Amici), changed, and went out to find the mummies of the Catacombs of Capucinni (a nice family outing!). THen we relaxed with a capucinno, a fried rice ball stuffed with cheese (Arancio?), a slice of pizza, and a panini. Then we went into the cathedral, saw another amazing church, and then a puppet theatre, which Palermo is famous for (Thanks, Ronni!) - fighting, romance, great voices, amazing puppets (weighing like 25lbs each).

Then we strolled around looking at fountains, markets, people watching, and we stopped for fried eggplant and a tiny pizza. Just after that we stumbled on a walking street lined with cafes all hawking their anitpasto plates for 5 Euros - all you could pile up. So we did that with some beer. And we went a little farther and did a kebab with some beer. Now itàs 10:44 and Iàm too full to go to bed!

1 comment:

  1. Palermo sounds fun Lori, we are having fried eggplant tonight but with a different twist, Lebanese style.

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