Archive for December 16th, 2007

In Sicily

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

We have arrived in Sicily, although we did not make arrive on Saturday as I was hoping, but we were three hours late at 2am on Sunday. This was mostly due to the ferry to Sicily being more than two hours later for no visible reason. The most interesting part of the trip was however just after midnight, when we had got half way across Sicily. I was feeling a bit drowsy, so Pinuccia took over the driving. Daniele was overdue for a feed but was fast asleep, so we decided to let him sleep and hope to arrive before he woke up. But five minutes after Pinuccia started driving, he woke up hungry and started to cry, and at the same time it started snowing. Reasonably hard, but the main problem was the wind was blowing it horizontal directly into the windscreen, and visibility was practically zero. So Pinuccia had to drive a fair bit before we could find an exit to stop for a while and give Daniele somewhere to eat. My that time I was quite awake after trying to soothe Daniele and help Pinuccia, so I took over the driving, and five minutes after we restarted it stopped snowing. Pinuccia gets all the fun! The irony is that it hasn’t snowed for two years at Trento, which is in the Alps; we come to “sunny” Sicily and it immediately starts snowing!