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wedding dessert table
After wedding cake, there were many sumptuous desserts including Jon's favorite, cassata siciliana.
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Uploaded on Sep 12, 2007
jon and etna
i have the same picture of me with etna in the background from taormina's main piazza taken in 2002.
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Uploaded on Sep 12, 2007
cable cars
A convenient though slightly scary way to the beach. We took this many times, as all wedding-related...
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view from taormina's odyssey
Meanwhile, Jon and Lorelei went to Taormina, where the wedding was to be held. This is the beautiful,...
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Uploaded on Sep 12, 2007
The Arch of Titus
This is an ancient Roman arch, found in the Forum in Rome. Jon took a photo of this particular panel...
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Uploaded on Sep 9, 2007
More Palatine Hill
Chunks of ancient buildings are apparently so mundane in Italy that they just leave them lying on the ground.
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Palatine Hill
Ancient Roman emperors clustered their palaces together, perhaps anticipating that it would someday...
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Lorelei on Palatine Hill
Obits on the wall
These appear throughout Italy. Our Italian friends said people put obits in the newspaper as well.
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Ear of Dionysus
Another man-made cave, but huge and echoey. They said the Greeks and Romans used the place to sound...
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Greek Theater
The view from the other side is spectacular. Too bad we didn't upload that one.
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Cave
The hill above the theater is full of cute, charming caves that were probably made by rock quarrying.
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Greek Theater #1
Syracuse contains a gorgeous park with a really ancient Greek theater. This is part of it.
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Uploaded on Sep 9, 2007
Sexy Duck
Italians like using English on signs and t-shirts, but don't always combine concepts in a way that makes sense to me.
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Ewww. Chino!
There's a soft drink called Chino in Italy. It is vile. Most of their other ones are good, but this...
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Parade #1
We were stirred out of our afternoon heat-induced stupor by the sound of a marching band. Turns out...
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Uploaded on Sep 9, 2007
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