a big street protest we walked through in palermo. rossi was explaining that these were largely students complaining that tuition just went up, but that there were a lot of other leftist issues being protested, too... which lessened the impact of the whole thing.
in siracusa, we were near the fonte aretusa at dusk, when a million little birds all descended on the area at once. they were all roosting in the trees nearby, and the sight (and noise) was unbelievable:
