Before Nate, Sydney, and Rick got here to Italy we went to an old section of Marsala. It had a very grand entrance and little streets with lots of people walking everywhere. The streets are shiny because they are the original stones that have been worn smooth over the many years. The big attraction was the church which they started building in 1100 AD and was destroyed and rebuilt several times, including during WWII.
My aunt took us to a butcher shop where we saw our first huge fish! There was one large swordfish and a huge tuna head and body. I made sure there were people in each picture so you could see how gigantic everything was!!
We went out for our first meal in Italy after looking around, and I got daring and ordered a pasta dish with anchovies and a tomato sauce. The pasta was long like spaghetti but they were tubes so they looked like worms. It was really, really good!! I was quite suprised! When you are eating in a restaurant, you buy water (aqua) and coke (coke :) ) by the bottle and pour it into your own glasses. The coke came in huge old-fashioned glass bottles. We had some fun with the pictures. At the end of a meal Italians usually have a coffee (espresso). They come in tiny little cups and you can either get them with milk (macchiato) or without (cafe). In the states, caffeine makes me very jittery, but here I'm totally fine. The coffee is increadibly smooth and the little bit is just enough to satisfy.
Marsala has a market that happens every Tuesday morning, so we went this last Tuesday. There are all sorts of vendors, from personal hygiene to clothes to fabric to vegetables. You can get just about anything here!! The most offered item? Shoes!! More specifically, women's sandals. We had tons of fun walking around, listening to the vendors yelling, and buying clothes and jewelry.
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