JESS AND JON IN SICILY

Not Jon, but John Camera, a friend of Jon Collier from Boston. He is currently working in Cambridge England, and so Jess joined him and flew to Palermo for this Sicilian adventure. That’s her at Logan airport ready to fly out, and then the gate for Hogsworth school at Kings Cross (from Harry Potter). They arrived just after some sirocco winds set in, so we wondered if the weather would be bad their whole stay. But so far it has been gorgeous, mostly warm and clear, and the nights with the almost full moon have been stunning. Limoncello has enjoyed sitting in the sun and chirping away. He can really sing now!
Besides being at the beach and John’s marathon runs, they have done the usual Sciacca things; getting wine, making bread at Paolo and Ignatizia’s, going to market, visiting the top of San Calogero for views, and yesterday, the ruins in Agrigento. Check out the menu with the beer milkshakes! And John is so tall he could not fit into the necropolis in the Valley of the Temples there. Jess’s friend Evn was here from Siracusa and started them on learning Scopa, the Sicilian card game. So we had our first Scopa tournament last night and Jess won. Tomorrow we will journey to Pietraprezia, Mancuso hometown, where we will see my dad’s cousin Angelo’s family. I have just learned that his daughter, Lindora, is pregnant for her second child. She is thrilled, and I wonder how Mirianna, her adorable first child, will react.