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■ r U give you halt SYRACUSE On typical European roads - just wide enough for one vehicle - we wound our way to Syracuse. Though badly bombed during World War II, the country- side was warm and colorful and one of the most beautiful we have yet seen. Once in Syracuse, our first stops were at the Grecian amphitheatre (where today they still give revivals of ancient Greek dramas) and Dionysius ' Ear, an S-shaped cave with an unbelieveable echo - so perfect that the tearing of a piece of paper sounds like a thunderclap (this cave was also the coolest place we hit on the tour.) We progressed to the Ropemaker ' s Cavern, where an exhibition was set up to show how the Sicilians of the past used to manufacture their rope- Then on to the Catacombs, (second in size and fame only to those in Rome) where St. Luke is buried and to the underground chapel, where St. Paul first preached. In the town itself, we visited the large and ornate cathedral. After a Sicilian lunch, we set out for an afternoon of wandering on our own. There was a great deal to see in this city of winding streets and little alleys, and we were especially fascinated by the police with their huge, billowy white sleeves and by the horses and carriages, gaily beplumed and beribboned. A fine time and tired feet were had by all.
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SICILY Although the consensus of opinion was that a short two-hour liberty was more than enough time in which to digest the town of Augusta Bay, Sicily, this dusty, dry, coastal village - centered around an Italian Naval Base - offered a few things for one ' s memory. For the photographer, it had the most co-opera- tive children and old women imaginable - so co- operative, in fact, that they almost knocked each other down in an eftort to get in the snapshot . For the sailor who had long dispaired of getting a haircut on shipboard, Augusta had the most barber- shops per square foot of any town we have ever seen. For the more-than-two-hour liberty hound, it also seemed to have the most bars. For the musically-inclined, Augusta offered every type of lute, mandolin, or guitar in existence, and wooden music-boxes fell off every street-side cart. Hey Joe was the warcry, and almost did cause several minor Naval uprisings. On the sober side, Augusta mutely offered bomb- and-fire gutted ruins to the tourists ' eyes. A sun-baked plaza with the local church-cathedral was the center of town and blended in effortlessly with the pale pastel, two-story, old stone and stucco houses of the Augustans.
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