Sicily

Our hotel.




The view from our room.




Yesterday we left Rome for a design workshop in Sicily that will be 10 days long. We are in a town called Gioiosa Marea that used to be located high on a mountain, but there was an earthquake in the town and so they relocated down closer to the beach. The view from my hotel room is pretty great. Last night while I was trying to sleep, I could hear the crashing waves. We have a balcony and are able to keep the double doors thrown open all night.

This is a nice change from Rome. It is a pretty small town; it is definitely smaller than Oxford, and very walkable. One thing that I found pretty interesting about Sicily was that in the 1970s they built a main highway to Palermo and it is almost completely underground in a tunnel system. I can't imagine driving in a tunnel for that long.