Baltimore (CA 68) - Naval Cruise Book

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Z ., ., ,, M- 56 LM-- HA 'Q Flowers everywhere For six long monThs, Through rain or shine, beTween op- eraTions oT all kinds, we made many porTs in The MediTer- ranean, buT perhaps The mosT popular oT all, The one To which we looked Torward mosT eagerly, was Palermo, on The nOrThern coasT oT Sicily. NOT so much Tor The porT iTselT, buf because waiTing There Tor us was The USS Macon TCA-I32l-our relieT ship. Palermo was our lasT porT Tor The summer cruise oT l953. We had only Three days in Palermo, louT iT didn'T Take long To hop inTo one oT The carrozza, horse-drawn car- riages +ha+ caTered To The sailor Trade, and Take in The SighTs. The very beauTiTul CaThedral aT Monreale Wllh FTS 6 . Q I I-f I 1 ' 4 , 0, . ,H , v The ciTy . . . and The counTry exampl.es oT ByzanTine, Norman, and Moorish archiTecTure, The CaTacombs, and The many parks and sTaTues abouT The ciTy gave evidence oT The rich hisTorical background oT Sicily's capiTal. In The huge sidewalk caTe in The cenTer of Town we goT our lasT TasTe oT Birra Messina Tor anoTher year. BuT somehow our hearTs iusT weren'T in iT, and when The Time came To casT OTT, we were more Than ready. WiTh lighT hearTs, happy ThoughTs, and dreams oT pleasanTer days ahead, back in The good old U. S, oT A., we sTeamed pasT The rock oT GiloralTar and seT our course 2700 True . .. 127