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December 19, 2020 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
36 heures, c'est ce à quoi le nouveau plan de confinement italien a réduit notre passage en Sicile... Juste le temps de flâner quelques heures à Palerme (une ville hyper contrastée où les coins touristiques branchés laissent place aux quartiers delabrés, anarchiques et jonchés d'ordures en l'espace de deux ruelles) avant de gagner le port de Pozzallo sur fond de ciel rose-orangé surréaliste où nous attend le Saint Jean Paul II (notre bateau)... on passe Noël à Malte !Read more
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Dec 19, 2020 · ☁️ 16 °C · Altitude: 28 m · 38°6'56" N 13°21'45" E
Italy Palermo Noce Chiesa di Santa Caterina
Roland Routier Renault Roaming
Day116
Shock! Horror! Shame!
February 20, 2019 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
The Praetorian Palace is so named because it has always housed the cities administration and is now the Town Hall / Palermo mayor's office, whence Piazza Pretoria and Fontana Pretoria.

The fountain ws designed by by Francesco Camilliani for a private villa but bought by the Town Council and erected in front of the Town Hall in 1573. The basin is decorated with more than 50 statues of all kinds of animals, monsters, harpies, sirens and tritons. Many of them are depicted without clothes which outraged and shocked the locals so much that they "Fontana della Vergogna". (But they still kept this Fountain of Shame).

Goethe, visiting Sicily in 1787, was appalled.Read more
Tony Hammond
Perhaps they couldn't afford any clothes......
3/11/19Reply
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Feb 20, 2019, 2:08pm · ☀️ 15 °C · Altitude: 28 m · 38°6'56" N 13°21'45" E
Italy Palermo Noce Chiesa di Santa Caterina
Roland Routier Renault Roaming
Day116
Play-tex time
February 20, 2019 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
I have nothing to say about this, other than to point out to parents' of prospective pupils that they may be confident of plenty of support being provided in the classroom.
Raffy M
Tittilating? 😀
3/10/19Reply
Tony Hammond
Titter ye not (courtesy of Frankie Howard)....
3/11/19Reply
Tony Hammond
Hope the parents don't get brassed off....x C.
3/12/19Reply
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Feb 20, 2019, 3:08pm · ☀️ 14 °C · Altitude: 28 m · 38°6'56" N 13°21'45" E
Italy Palermo Noce Chiesa di Santa Caterina

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