Our first stop was Messina, Sicily. We knew the next few days in Athens and Ephesus were going to be pretty hectic, so we decided to take it a little easy in Sicily. First, we took a little train ride around Messina and heard all about the history of the area.
It is really a beautiful town and it is the closest point of Sicily to the Italian mainland. Because it is a port city, there are lots of tourists in the area, although many people venture up to Mt. Etna, a live volcano that you can see from the city.
After the train ride, we visited the Cathedral in Messina and we loved it. I'm not sure Drew feels quite as strongly about it as I, but I would say it is possibly my favorite church we have seen, next to St. Vitus' Cathedral in Prague. It had beautiful murals painted on the domes at the front and on each of the ceiling beams throughout the length of the church. What a beautiful place to worship!
No trip to Sicily would have been complete without pizza and gelato so we stopped at a local pizzaria and then for gelato on the way back to the ship.
Sorry this is taking so long!! Hopefully I can have the post on Athens to you a bit more quickly!!
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