Vehicles and Coffee

Vehicles here are small.  I see the odd big car and small motor homes.  Smart Cars are quite popular. The streets are narrow and parking spaces are scarce. On any street one will see both parralel parking and angle parking.  You fit in any way you can.  You park right to the edge of the intersection if you have to so one has to be careful at intersections.

I see a lot of these very, very small three-wheeled trucks.  Sometimes they carry vegetables and fruit and sometimes gardening tools or whatever.  I think they are rather cute.  A litre of gasoline is about 1.89€ a litre and diesel is about 1.90€ a litre.  It changes almost daily.  Roma's small Ford is diesel.

They like their coffee here but prepare it differently than we do back home.

They perk it in these little perculators and fill the little cup half-full of coffee.  They add a teaspoon of sugar and stir. It is very strong. I put a regular sized coffee mug for comparison.  

It has been cooler here than usual.  We just heard on the news that it is the coldest spring in two centuries, being about 17 degrees below normal for this time of year. It has been between 12 and 14C all week and rainy.

I am sending one of my favourite photos of Siracusa.

Now isn't this a pretty street?  It faces the sea.