The journey has gone so smoothly that we touched down five minutes early and there I was braced for a delay. We are currently sitting in the airport cafe having a sandwich. Not a very exciting start to our adventure I know, but it’s comfortable, and even though we are travelling ‘light’ we still have too much luggage to wander around Palermo until we can check in to our apartment at 2pm.
We think we can catch a train from here to near where we are staying (up the road from the Palazzo dei Normanni) but the name of the station here at the airport does not seem to be recognised by Trenitalia. We shall have to put our sketchy Italian to good use and ask someone. Oh well, we have plenty of time to get to where we’re going.
PS I have a confession to make – I have previously said we would be going round Italy with two suitcases and two small rucksacks, but I have to admit to failing to manage to pack the growing number of items we deemed necessary for our year away into the planned baggage, so we have added a cabin bag (it’s as large as is allowed on board) and my empty rucksack is inside it. Also, we have new rucksacks and they are not as small as the last ones. I tell myself that our bags will get lighter as time goes on as we use up the half-empty tubes of various creams that I couldn’t bear to throw away before we left. Better not buy too many souvenirs!
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