Sunday, March 18: We arrived in Catania, Sicily
last night around 6:30pm (11:30am Denver time). We went out to eat and
went to bed dead tired at 9pm. I slept well until 2:30am but Edie did
not. It was extremely noisy outside, lots of shouting, horns honking, etc.,
including at 5am a bad car crash right outside our apartment that badly injured
at least one person. The police came, ambulances, etc. Edie went
back to bed around 7am and slept till noon. Not the best start for us
but we look forward to the rest of the day.
Wednesday, March 21: It has been interesting here
in Catania, in some ways good, in others bad. We have enjoyed seeing the
sights, the ocean and ancient buildings. Our apartment has been adequate
and well situated to walk easily to the places we wanted to go. However,
it has been extremely noisy. We are right beside a major street that
reduces to one lane near here so there is constant traffic noise and
honking. At night the prostitutes congregate under our balcony and haggle
or argue loudly nearly all night. On top of that the space below us is
under construction so there is constant hammering, breaking up tile and
concrete, etc. during the day. Our serene escape to meditate is not
happening. We are trusting the Lord that this is where He wanted us and
will prepare us for the rest or our still uncertain trip.
Our landlords were able to
get their car replaced (parked on the street and was totaled in the car crash our first night here) so that was good. We have one more day here and
then on to Bucharest on Friday.
Al
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