Joe "Beppe"Rosenberg wrote:
> There are many lovely things about Venice and Firenze--the service people in
> Venice are like New Yorkers, sending tourists on long water taxi rides--when
> can walk 1/4 mile, being disdainful of the amount of a tip. Verona is the
> real Veneto, as for Firenze is a sightseer paradise, old bridges rooms along
> the Arno, no traffic in the center and surrounding hill towns like Fiesole.
> I love the Langhe but its become a little like Route 29 in Napa or the
> highway from Sonoma to Santa Rosa, places for conspicuous consumption.
>
> I've never been south of Avellino but are they still issuing body armour &
> anti theft devices on arrival?

Let's go to Palermo and find out!