hello peeps or Bon Jovi as we say in Italy... well here we have some nice sunny photos
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The first 2 are Etna, which I climbed... well, went up the first thousand feet in a cable car and the second thousand in a 4x4, but I walked around that crater on my own actual two feet, wheezing hard... as you can see, lots of steam pouring out from craters and just from the side of the paths... they said there was some lava flowing higher up but I didn't see it. It mostly just flows down into a valley and doesn't go down to the water, but that crater only came into existence in 2002 in the last big eruption, which did hit a couple of villages; before that it was just empty plain like the land above it...
The beach is at Cefalu, which has a lovely Norman church with mosaics. But the actual mosaics in the other picture are at Monreale outside Palermo - imagine the whole inside of the church covered with them, but rather dark so most of my photos came out blurry. These ones you could light up with a euro in the meter, so they're sharper. It is absolutely gorgeous.
And the bikini gals are ancient Romans; there's a whole villa being uncovered near Agrigento, floor mosaics everywhere. These ones are athletes; one's holding weights while she runs or jumps, the other one's throwing a discus. Go Fatima!