For any who come.....

The real place to see is the Saturday market in Catania. I've never seen anything like it. Food, clothes, shoes, kitchen wares, housewares, curtains, bedding, more food, and on and on. Many city blocks of vendors. What fun. You can buy furs next to the place to buy cheese, next to the place to buy fish, etc.

And tables filled with bunches of kinds of olives, tables with every kind of fish (and a few questionable items). Butchers and cheeses more than you could imagine. Just had to show some pictures.




It's artichoke season here and, boy, are there artichokes. Every farmer's truck is full of them. I even saw a station wagon with the back closed, artichoke leaves squeezing out the edges, artichokes tied on top and on both sides. As we drove by, I wish I could have gotten my camera out quick enough. But, alas, it will just have to be a memory.