{"id":1082,"date":"2017-01-14T10:07:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T14:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2017-01-14T10:47:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T14:47:46","slug":"sicily-day-9-november-25-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"Sicily, Day 9 – November 25, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our breakfast buffet in Trapani offered bacon and eggs, \u00a0a variety of breads and cakes, jams, whole fruit, fruit salad, \u00a0cold cereal \u00a0with yogurt, and a variety of teas. I chose the cold cereal\u00a0with yogurt and orange cinnamon tea.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After breakfast, our\u00a0\u00a0bus took us \u00a0to the salt flats of Trapani, where salt has been harvested since the 12th century. \u00a0
\n<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>From the salt flats we took a boat to the island San Pantaleo. \"\"On the island was Mozia<\/em>, the Mediteranean’s best preserved Phoenician site. There we visited the Whitaker Museum<\/em>, where we learned about the ancient Phoenician civilization. The museum’s greatest treasure is Il Giovinetto di Mozia,<\/em> a marble statue of a young man.<\/p>\n

We returned to our hotel and a respite.\u00a0This was followed by a hunt for an ATM, which was followed by a hunt for “the best cannoli on the planet,” as one reviewer said. We\u00a0were\u00a0helped to find the ATM by our bus driver, and we found the pastry shop of which \u00a0the reviewer spoke so highly. Sadly, it was closed.<\/p>\n

Several of us planned to have dinner together.\u00a0\u00a0Most of the restaurants were closed \u00a0for the off-season,\u00a0\u00a0but we found one that would accept our reservation. A few moments after being seated, we were told that our table was needed because the party of locals next to us had more members than they thought. This was upsetting, because the only available\u00a0table didn’t have enough room for all of us. Then we learned that the\u00a0restaurant had another\u00a0room\u00a0in which\u00a0two members of our group were eating. Carol and Wendell left our group and joined the two who had been alone,\u00a0\u00a0so everyone was seated.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I ordered pasta with\u00a0pesto alla Trapani. Trapani’s\u00a0version of pesto contained almonds, garlic, tomato, and pecorino cheese. Nick ordered swordfish crusted in pistachios. While we were eating, KB asked a fellow at the next table (the table\u00a0we relinquished that had been added to the\u00a0table of locals) \u00a0if they were celebrating a birthday. The fellow picked up a\u00a0bottle of wine, came to our table, and and filled each our glasses, in gratitude to us for giving up our table.<\/p>\n

It was a windy, rainy evening. Although\u00a0\u00a0I suspect that some\u00a0members of\u00a0our group went\u00a0out in search \u00a0of gelato, Nick and I made\u00a0it an early night. We had walked more than 10,900 steps and climbed\u00a0 the equivalent of 16\u00a0flights of stairs.<\/p>\n

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Our breakfast buffet in Trapani offered bacon and eggs, \u00a0a variety of breads and cakes, jams, whole fruit, fruit salad, \u00a0cold cereal \u00a0with yogurt, and a variety of teas. I chose the cold cereal\u00a0with yogurt and orange cinnamon tea. After breakfast, our\u00a0\u00a0bus took us \u00a0to the salt flats of Trapani, where salt has been harvested … Continue reading Sicily, Day 9 – November 25, 2016<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sicily-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pisarro.org\/aboutnick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}