I turned around and — he just casually has a falcon.

My grandmother's maiden name, on a store. Wow.

Trilingual street signs! Hebrew and Arabic as well as Italian.

Fico di India, or cactus fruits

Those car mechanics must be Disney Princess fans! Me too hi!! But seriously, what? It was on a table, like a shrine.

Another family name. They were evidently aristocrats

Another family name!

Another family name!! Dell'Acqua, of water. We also have a cousin family that's Cabrini, of brine. Great mermaid names!

Hey, I know that story!

Model of a float for Saint Rosalia

Really good songs. I now love Shazam.

Stairs to your doom on the top of Palermo Cathedral

Crusaders in the Palermo Puppet Museum. I liked this girl, but the rest were creepy and EXTREMELY racist, so no pics. Like, there was a Jim Crow. Disgusting. Shocking. I mean, were Europeans laughing at America whenever they made these?? Or laughing with them, ugh

Surprise! June 6 is a holiday!

And the neighbors all set off fireworks for it!

Ya better turn

Now THAT is a post office

So many stray kitties

Dude, they are obsessed with Calvin Klein. Like giant American brands splashed across their clothing

Tamil cultural celebration! I got to watch off our balcony!

In the fountain in the Archeological Museum

We counted like a dozen brides on the three-week trip

Beautiful

LOL a salami tire cover?! Nothing is more Italy folks

They carve their names in cacti like we do tree bark!

A random goat enclosure in the Valley of the Temples

Ok, Netflix trucked loads of DIRT onto Via Maqueda to film their show "The Leopard," and it was wicked inconvenient to walk around, and it made a MESS in the rain

Ok, but that's cool

I had no idea pigeons came in so many colors

That is a SWING hanging from our loft, at the kitchen table. See also: the engineering album

Shawn Mendes, really? No wait, it's for Tommy Hilfiger and American brands are trendy on clothing

This looks volcanic

CORNETTO! That's how you say "croissant."

The second balcony up — that's ours. Those are MY CLOTHES, HANGING like this is the 1600s, because energy is too expensive in Europe and people don't have dryers!

I'm sorry but what

Neighbor! Hi!

European Dollar Store!!

And here's their, like, T-Mobile

Quite distracting construction/rennovation noise in Monreale

That is Jesus, holding his mother's infant soul, over her dying body,,,, And on the other side of La Martorana, they had the normal way around, mother holding infant!

Census document from Cefalù in Arabic. The lady in the Palermo Archive commented that they have Italian children learn Latin in schools, but in Sicily, all their old documents are in Arabic, so it's not helpful.

Love this store in America. It's German, and all over.

Starbucks split-tail siren!

I met Luigi