Understanding that the proper Sicilian breakfast is espresso and a pastry standing at the bar of a cafe, we set off Saturday morning in search of Savia , mentioned in Lonely Planet, . We could have gone to any78y90uuuiiiiiiiuooooooooooooooooooooo-i---i-ioiiiiiooi (oops! Maui put his face on the keyboard) - could have gone to any cafe, but this place was great because the girl working there went completely nuts for Aldus*, there was a quiet table at the back where I could nurse Aldus one more time before we really got out and about in the city, and there was a restroom (bonus!). Oh yeah -- and the espresso and dolci were outstanding!
* We'd read in the book that Sicilians love children. We had no idea , though, how much they LOVE LOVE LOVE super cute babies like Aldus! People were completely fawning over him during the entire vacation - young, old, male, female. From the waiter at Kokalos to the Savia barista, the woman working the snack shop on Mt. Etna to little old ladies on the street, everywhere we turned we heard "Ciao!", "Que dolce!", "Bello!" and "Bellissimo!". And of course he completely ate it up. Yeah, so did we.
Our prime destination for the day was the Parco Archeologico Della Neapolis, and our first stop there was the Teatro Greco. Ahhhh - Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus really could come back to life here! But I never would have guessed that anyone (I'm talking about you, 3rd century Romans) would have flooded it and enacted mock naval battles. HA!
If Aldus weren't sleeping, he could have seen all these schoolgirls fawning over him!
But he still woke up enough to enjoy the view!
Oddly, there was a spring at the top. And a hunky man!
The back of the theater overlooks the Latomia del Paradiso (Garden of Paradise) limestone quarry.
At the back of the quarry, the Orecchio di Dionisio is carved out of the rock.
Oooh! So tall!
And you can bet there are some pretty fun acoustics inside.
And then the Anfiteatro Romano:
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