THE RAIN IN SOUTHERN ITALY FALLS MAINLY IN SMALL, SPARSELY SPACED, DROPS After seeing the newspaper weather map showing rain along the coast, I almost cancelled my plans to go to Trani, a port town about half hour away by train, but another couple here at the B&B from Sardinia was going and didn’t seem concerned, so I followed their lead and went anyway. It did rain, maybe for two minutes a couple different times, but nothing got wet that I could see. I did my usual—wandered around the historic area, walked out on the jetty, stopped at a small grocery store that had a meat and cheese refrigerated case, and had the woman put together a “panino” for me with whatever I see that looks good, cheese, ham, slices of dried tomatoes in olive oil,
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