Bookworm is ready to come home
Don Quixote on Aug 05 2011 at 10:09 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
We spent the morning today in Palermo. I wish I had more to say about it, but I just don’t. I can’t figure out if it wouldn’t have been my cup of tea under any circumstances, or if I’m just getting soured after more travel than I really like.
I found Palermo hot, noisy, and crowded. The buildings were ragged, whether because of war injuries that linger on (a big WWII battle took place in Palermo), or simply because it’s an economically depressed area. I know I should have found the people colorful — “Look! There are Sicilians!” — but they just looked like people to me.
I’ve now exhausted my Palermo narrative. Tomorrow is the Vatican Museum, which includes the Sistine Chapel. If I don’t have something to say about that, either pro or con, I’d be very surprised.
P.S. from DQ: Book will be home in about four days or so. Yay!!
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I’d be surprised, too, since the original idea for the ceiling was a nice eggshell or Navajo white.
The line for the Sistine is long, and you have to pass by a lot of other art—much of it great—before you arrive. The problem with the Vatican’s art collection is that it is overwhelming. Eventually you become numbed to the splendor, and exhausted by having to pass quickly by objects that are screaming out to you to linger. It reminds me of the time I drove the 150-or-so miles between Jasper and Banff in the Canadian Rockies. Three hours of being unrelentingly bitch-slapped by some of North America’s most beautiful mountain scenery. To this day I remember the ozone pouring from our poor, overworked brains.
Good luck, Book.
I know I should have found the people colorful — “Look! There are Sicilians!” — but they just looked like people to me.
Especially so if like me, you grew up with a lot of people of Sicilian origin.