Every step is a new adventure...

   Every step you take in these ancient Sicilian towns is an adventure.  We did a long, two-plus mile walk the other day under a warm sun.  The first half was uphill, the second half downhill to our apartment.

   On our walks we encounter many properties for sale, should we ask the price of this intriguing house?

   Up the steps, past a palm and a cactus, and here's this man selling some kind of greens from the back of his car, right on the street, parked the wrong way...

    An open door reveals an old-time carpenter shop.  Too bad all the workers are out to lunch, Joe wanted to talk shop...

   An old lady done with her shopping, and a beautiful orange tree in the middle of the sidewalk...

   At the high point of our walk, look up to the mountains, look down to the sea...

   Italian street signs are attached to, or embedded into the corners of the buildings.  Here's a very old street sign, and the sign for a street you may not want to venture down...  Interesting, you can see that the new Purgatorio sign is placed over the old one...

 











   Finally the long walk down corso Giuseppe Garibaldi toward the sea, to our apartment.  Garibaldi was the man most responsible for the unification of Italy in the 1860s, and there are streets and monuments honoring him in almost every Italian town.

   Yes, every step leads to a new adventure...

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