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    Sicily

    Make sure the kids get all the ice cream they can eat. Granita for breakfast (possibly with a brioche) & gelato in the afternoon. Sicily is also famous for sweets: cannoli, cassata, etc. The only tricky thing is that you choose what you want at the bar, but then turn around to pay at the...
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    Sicily

    Covering everything in #4 and #5 will be a packed day. (edit, of course: two packed days) The rest looks OK to me.
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    The case against traveling

    The author is certainly right in some aspects. But if you like travelling to see other places and meet other people, is there anything wrong with that? It may be that people who think of themselves as travellers, much more often should think of themselves as tourists. Probably correct too, that...
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    Sicily

    First of all, Sicily is in Italy. Not in Spain. Second. I've been to Sicily more times than I can count. Here's a brief writeup of what a tourist should see/be aware of. Of things you shouldn't miss in Sicily, top of my list is the 'Valley of the Temples' in Agrigento (1-2 hours from Palermo)...