A selection of Sicilian scenes and subjects that caught my attention, but unlikely to be used in the following posts. Again, if you want to skip the text, but quickly check the pictures, click on this first photo and scroll through.
Sampling the wares in a Palermo market.
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Dodging scooters in the same crowded market.
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The Piaggio APE 50 (first with a cab came out in 1964) continues to be made.
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Here’s one in the style of a traditional Sicilian cart, a carretto.
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The carts, often with depictions of medieval knights and warfare (this from a display in Marsala) …
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… were once seen frequently as in these postcards.
A rather forlorn cart I came on in Siracusa …
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… and super snazzy Vespa version in Taormina.
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More knights in Palermo’s puppet museum …
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… and a street market.
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Sicily’s scenery … in the west Monte Cofano …
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... and on the island of Mozia also in the west …
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… a hilltop village in the east …
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… and coast near Mazzarò.
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Belle Époque bathhouse in Mondello ...
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... and early evening on the promenade in Mazara del Vallo.
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From a hillside in Taormina, I spotted a terrace …
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… where the Kaiser (far left) and his retinue breakfasted in 1904.
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The Kaiser later rented the entire hotel for a month in 1906. Edward VII and Queen Alexandra also came that year. Another early 20th Century visitor was Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II.
While eating they had a view (presumably minus aerials and satellite dish) of Mount Etna.
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A circus I'm devastated to have missed ... FRIMER AQUATIC CIRCUS PRESENTS THE ELECTRIC WOMAN INCREDIBLE BUT TRULY UNIQUE IN THE WORLD.
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And finally, I prefer this shot in black & white as it’s somehow more evocative, sort of Cinema Paradiso-ish … movie posters and a backstreet in Mazara del Vallo.
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