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Today we did a tour of Palermo including the open air market which has been going since started by the Phoenicians.
The amount of seafood was amazing especially the tuna which required 2 men to wrangle it. As big as a dolphin.
more tuna steaks and bussling market below.
The above is a weird kind of fish (oar fish) found in mediterannean.
The we went to the Capuchin Catacombs where 8000 mummies dressed in their sunday best are on display in a labyrinth of corridors. However unable to take photos. You should see them. Skeletons dressed in really old clothes, hundreds of years old attached to the wall. There is a famous child RosaLea who was embalmed by a really good embalmer and she still looks as good today as when she died a hundred years ago. Really weird. The relatives embalmed their dead loved ones and would then visit them and even take food to them. This was started by the Capuchin monks who are slightly more famous for their milk drink called Capuccino.
That afternoon we also did a drive around Palermo which is very pretty, went to another church and then the Palantine Chapel in the Palace of the Normans.
Palermo I think
and cathedral
Today we did a tour of Palermo including the open air market which has been going since started by the Phoenicians.
The amount of seafood was amazing especially the tuna which required 2 men to wrangle it. As big as a dolphin.
Meat. 
The we went to the Capuchin Catacombs where 8000 mummies dressed in their sunday best are on display in a labyrinth of corridors. However unable to take photos. You should see them. Skeletons dressed in really old clothes, hundreds of years old attached to the wall. There is a famous child RosaLea who was embalmed by a really good embalmer and she still looks as good today as when she died a hundred years ago. Really weird. The relatives embalmed their dead loved ones and would then visit them and even take food to them. This was started by the Capuchin monks who are slightly more famous for their milk drink called Capuccino.
That afternoon we also did a drive around Palermo which is very pretty, went to another church and then the Palantine Chapel in the Palace of the Normans.
Palermo I thinkand cathedral
chapel?
More Palermo....
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