Geo: 41.89, 12.4744Today we had to leave Sicily and fly back to Rome for our last five days. Sicily has been great, rustic, dry and a little bit dirty, with brilliant food and wine. The hotel owner drove us the 45 minutes or so to the Palermo airport. At one stage I noticed the speedo at 160km/hr, it was a quick trip. We arrived at the airport with plenty of time to spare!We were taking an Alitalia flight to Rome which was delayed an hour. G and I waited patiently in an orderly manner in the line to board. The minute the boarding notice came up, the Sicilians all pushed into the priority cue and somehow managed to board. Looking back at the remaining cue I don't think there were any Italians in it. Something to
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