April 6 was our day to see Palermo, which turned out to be mildly disappointing. The bus we took into town stopped at about 20 more stops than it had the night before, so it took us about an hour to get into town, and then the main museum we had been planning on seeing was closed for renovations. We then tried to go in some churches that we had written down from our guidebooks, but they were also closed (or we couldn’t find the doors—one of the two). We did go into a random church we just found on a road we were walking on, and it was pretty and old. We saw Cathedrale, the main cathedral in Palermo, and it was beautiful, as well as an old Palermo Palace with a church with the
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