Burial chambers in old town wall

Cicily Day 10. Mon 19 Oct 2015

October 19th 2015
Cicily Day 10. Monday 19 Oct 2015 A bit of excitement to start the day. We got to the bus stop outside he hotel to go to the Archaeological Museum thinking it was one euro fare. As it happened or was 1.80 Euro and the driver had no change so it got a bit fraught with 6 of us trying to get enough change together and the women on the bus shouting with arms in the air, as only Italians do, that time ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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Richard Dugdale

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I am a retired engineer, born in 1945, who loves cycle touring. I started by riding Lands End John O Groats for charity. Followed by C2C, the Three Towers (Blackpool - London -Paris Blackpool), European section of North Sea Cycle Route (Rotterdam to Bergen, 3,500 km), several sportives and trips to Spain and the Alps, Slovenia, Albania, Macedonia, Turkey, Japan, Kerala and Tamil Nadu (India), Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Australia, including Tasmania and New Zealand. Kyushu Japan, USA, Republic of Ireland, Germany and Sicily. I ride two days every week with some retired riders and usually lead a... full info

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19th October 2015

Richard Jnr
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Looks like you should've taken a cyclo-cross or hard tail mountain bike & not your new tourer. Looks like you're having a good time though. Definitely have more fun than most of us back home experiencing a cloudy late october with temperatures from 11 to 15 degrees.

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