Monday, July 22, 2013
We
arrived late into Messina (Sicily) so we had a nice sleep-in this morning. Shawn piled on the breakfast – easy to do
with the buffets here! The one
unfortunate thing is that the crew prepour the water and juice, so it is hard
to fill-up water bottles –we manage to do it, however!
Shawn
and I decided to stay in Messini instead of going to Taormina because there was
a lot to do in the former without driving for 2 hours either way to get to
Taormina. We hiked up the hill to go
visit Cristo Re Church which gave us a beautiful panorama of the harbor and of
the town. We visited a couple more
churches up on the hill before heading down to the Capolinea where the
Cathedral has this astronomical clock that played a song and made lion and
rooster sounds at noon everyday. The gold statues moved while the music
played. It was very entertaining!
We
walked up towards the centre of town and visited numerous shops along the
way. I managed to “escape” the shopping,
but Shawn bought a nice pair of pants and a shirt. It seems like I often hit the annual sales in
France, we have managed to hit the sales here too! Lots of stores are between
50-70% off the entire store.
Before
heading back to the ship we purchased two different types of canoli. They were quite tasty!
It was
overall a relaxing and nice day in Messina!
We had
a great singer for the show this evening.
Gary Williams is a well-known “Classics” singing – mostly Frank
Sinatra. He was excellent. I was really impressed with the show. It was “white hot” night this evening, but it
was really busy, so we decided not to hang out by the pool. Instead we walked up to the sport deck and
played a round of mini-golf! It was
great, although the dark added an extra challenge.
Tomorrow is sea day! Yeah!
-Allison
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