SICILY!

Okay, so to begin with, there is no way to post all the pictures I want to from this trip, but even if I could it would not do any justice to how absurdly beautiful the entire week was. On the way down we stopped in Paestum for a day, then Regio Calabria, and then we took a ferry over to Sicily and traveled through there for the rest of the week. It was a great week, aside from half the Centro, including myself, coming down with a puking virus. But we all survived. I think in a weird way it brought us closer.

The Tomb (well, its lid) of the Diver at Paestum. I did my presentation on this for our archaeology class. It's kind of complicated to explain, but it comes from Paestum, which was a Greek colony originally, and it's a great example of a mixture of Etruscan and Greek influences in art. It's also beautiful and incredibly well-preserved givent that it's well over 2000 years old.

One of the (Greek) temples of Hera at Paestum. Doric temples are sweet.

I realize that I have a lot of pictures of Sophie on this blog, which is funny because she hates being in pictures. Anyway, this is the ferry over to Sicily.
The Greek theater (which evolved into a more Roman theater when they took over). The smoky mountain in the back is Etna, which is often mildly active. I was pretty much in awe of the view the entire time. They say Taormina is the most beautiful town in Sicily, I think I could agree with that.



Taormina again. Sorry I don't know how to rotate this stuff!

More to come.