Ciao From Palermo

Ciao a Tutti da Palermo!!

After two amazing days visiting Toscana (I really hope I can find the time to write you about the 4 cities I have visited there, as they were fantastic), I kept on my journey towards the south of Italy, heading to Cirella, a little village by the calabrian sea. Where my “Pazzo Terrone” friend Giancarlo and his family welcomed me at their summer place.

But before, the journey on the road. Passing from Lazio (Rome’s region) to Campagna (Napoli’s region) feels pretty much like looking the road from a normal car’s windshield and then from the 2cv’s one: we move into a completely different reality. Indeed, I doubt “reality” is suitable word, as quite often one has the feeling to be inside a Emir Kusturica’s film. The people, the landscape, the environment and of course the driving just seem to come from a complete different planet. But somehow, everything just feels surprisingly comfortable and cousy. People are very, very friendly, the clock seems to tick 120 times per minute, the food is great, the ocean marvelous and in less then one hour you are already laughing every time you see a car coming straight to you on a one way street. Summing it up, welcome to the south of Italy.

We moved from Calabria this morning, after a heavy, heavy party last night, on a marvelous disco just by the sea. The journey is long and we are in “Ferragosto” (main period of holidays here in Italy), so the day started only a couple of hours after we hit the bead. After a path over the land and the sea, where I am in the Capital of Sicily, at the place of my favourite “Bastardo”: Maurizio Sorbello. Tomorrow I’ll move to San Vito Ill Capo, a place by the sea at the western coast of Sicily, where I was promised Paradise.

The 2cv is, specially today, deserves to be congratulated. Afterall, after over 4500km we arrived in Palermo. Just missing the “Back” part!

Hope to be able to address you again soon, but still was unable to check whether internet is already available in Paradise.

Arrivederci,
Tiago

P.S 1 – again and again, thank you guys for the great comments you keep leaving here. I always have a great time reading them as well for me it became an addiction. Even better to see my journey is as well putting some of my friends in contact again. Did you really had to wait for me to leave the country?

P.S. – Tomorrow the big concert. Unfortunately, or on second thoughts, fortunately, I won’t be able to attend. But I hope you all enjoy it, especially you! (now, it’s not for all of you, just for one you that I am sure will “recognize” easily herself).