A little slice of Sicily
Just two weeks after we landed in Amsterdam, our friend Annie and her rad son Rio stopped to spend time with us on their way to Palermo, Sicily. It was during their visit when we decided we’d join them on the island before they headed home to Oakland-which is how we ended up with tickets to Palermo on my birthday. Our hair raising cab ride into town from the teeny Palermo airport definitely made us feel like we landed in another world. Where Amsterdam is tightly organized and law-abiding, Palermo is humming along with barely contained chaos. I usually take the time to make very detailed travel plans. I never want to feel like we missed the magic of destination simply because we didn’t know where to be. But this time was different. I decided we could rely on the sightseeing advice of Annie and Rio and let them be our guides in their new hometown. The historical center of Palermo has classic Italian “attractions” - there is a grand cathedral, piazzas, gr
