Second Day In Sicily this time Palermo

May 7, 2009
Palermo, Sicily
4:10 PM

Well the cruise is winding down for us. Our second day in Sicily was much like the first but not as exciting. Charlotte and I tried the Vista Dining room for a sit down breakfast at 8 AM and sat with a couple of widows from the Tacoma Washington area. I did enjoy what I thought was my best breakfast, corned beef hash with two poached eggs.

Around 10 AM we left the boat. It was a 1 kilometer walk to the town the port city of Palermo. The town is a mixture of Italian and Arabic, new and old, sophisticated and plain. We started walking but I could not resist one taxi driver who wanted 50 Euros to take us to all the major sites but I talked him into 20 for the four of us…Oh the taxi was actually an open motor scooter with room for three in the back and one up with the driver. Marlene sat up front and we were off. It was a very delightful ride on a very comfortable sunny day. Within an hour he had scooted us to about 10 locations where we could take pictures of old buildings. He could not speak English and we did not know Italian so he would point to the name of the building in a brochure. It was so good we gave him 25 Euros. Then we shopped as we walked from the center of Palermo back to the ship getting back on about 12:30.

A quick lunch then we went for the dam dollars again. We got 3 each for a game of Trivial Pursuit and a game of Wi Baseball (Lyle was very good at hitting home runs). We tired to double up by winning the Mega Trivia game again but came up way short.

Back in the room starting my blog I realized we still had time to make the daily bingo game. So Marlene, Charlotte, and I just played bingo. It took 45 minutes and it is now 5:15. We had to pay $20 each for Bingo but Charlotte tied the last coverall game with 4 others and got back $15. She and Marlene now went to walk the Promenade Deck.

So I will send this and probably have a drink as we are leaving Palermo. Tonight will be our sixth and last formal evening and we are expecting another excellent meal….remember the surf and turf with baked Alaska.

Tomorrow we stop at Naples and we are on an early tour to Pompeii and Sorrento. Then it will be time to back as that is the last port of call.