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May 8th 2015
Published: May 20th 2015
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What is it that makes one place so uninteresting and the next enthralling? It is a question we have puzzled over. Visits to great cities like Vienna left us cold, but our last trip, to Sicily, had us enchanted from the moment our plane touched ground. Okay, actually from the air before landing. The landscape is dry, rocky, and rather harsh, yet something in it spoke to us; something in that Medite... Read Full Entry



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Agrigento

Dean looks to the past
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The boys

Walking back from the Tempio della Concordia
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Scala dei Turchi

These strange white cliffs jut out over the ocean on the coast near Agrigento.
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Scala dei Turchi

We jumped off the rocks of Scala dei Turchi into the blue, blue Mediterranean
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Scala dei Turchi

A good view of these strange white steps
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Palermo

There were many lovely parks and green spaces in Palermo
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Palermo

We loved the Baroque architecture of Palermo
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Arancini

These filled balls are a common street food in Sicily.
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Palermo

Evening on the street of bars (as we called it); happy hour extraordinare.
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Old photos

In the marketplace of Vucciria, a man was selling old photos, 50 euro cents a piece
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Vucciria market, Palermo

Gabriel haggles for goods.
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Mounir

On our last night in Palermo we had fantastic pizza and kebab at Mounir Kebab,



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