![The Best Marmellata in the Mediterranean](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_2106-470x140.jpg)
It is our last day in Palermo and we are seated in the cheery, maraschino red dining room of the Seralcadio Bed and Breakfast when…
![A bus stop in Palermo.](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Italian_Transport_Bus-470x140.jpg)
Two weeks and one day in Italy convince us that the people here are some of the warmest and most helpful of any whose company…
![Italian Double-Take: Aragon Castle, Taranto](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_2013-470x140.jpg)
“Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.”…
![A Mateo groom idles away the afternoon in Palermo.](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Idling_Carriage_Palermo-470x140.jpg)
Ships stop in Palermo. That’s why horse-drawn carriages still roam the streets. The morning we got off the ferry, dozens of one-horse buggies–called mateos–were lined up…
![Two craps dice on a green background. From Wikimedia Commons.](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/1024px-Craps-470x140.jpg)
Palermo feels like a place where schemes are hatched. Unexpected turns, the ancient beside the modern, the grit of daily struggle right in front of…
![A pizza with egg cracked on the top a soon as it leaves the oven.](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Egg_Pizza_Alghero-470x140.jpg)
Pizza. You have an image, don’t you? I write the word and a picture appears in your mind. Perhaps it is the family favorite from…
![Bravissimo, Palermo!](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_1782-470x140.jpg)
Welcome to Palermo, an operatic city if ever there was one. Make your way from the docks into the grand, dilapidated theater that is Sicilian…
![A sunken boat in the harbor at Palermo, Italy.](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Sunken_Boat-470x140.jpg)
After this it was sheer travel along the North African littoral, and the Mediterranean, and Sicily, and Greece. This: Tangier. This: the death of Don…
![In the Mood for Myrtle](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_2807-470x140.jpg)
From Sassari in the north, we make our way by bus toward Cagliari on the the island’s southern tip. It’s springtime in Sardinia as we…
![Corsican Flag on the Kallieste.](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Corsican_Flag_On_Kallieste_Crop-470x140.jpg)
I first really noticed it on the prow of our ferry, the Kalliste, during our dawn docking in the Corsican port of Propriano. The sea…
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