Day 126: The Sicily Circuit
06.05.09: Our ferry got us into Pozzallo, which is not the same place we left from (Catania), so we raced to the train station and hopped on the OLDEST TRAIN IN THE WORLD up to Catania. One of those trains where you can OPEN THE BLOODY WINDOW and STICK YOUR HEAD OUT!! Health and Safety be DAMNED I say, be DAMNED. The conductor was bo-diddly crazy, and everyone on board didn't seem to be heading anywhere - they were just there for ‘the craic'. I can't express to you, the joy of windows that OPEN - in buildings, in trains, on buses - give me AIR! Not phoney, dry through-the-(might-not-be-working)-AC air, real immediate O2 - air that you do not have to ask someone else for, air that can't break down on the hottest day of the year - fresh, flowing, cool democratic air. Happiness is…