Italy
May 6, 2026 under construction --- going for dinner Tunnels and more Tunnels and don't forget the Bridges Today is a long travel day. We leave the island of Sicily on a ferry then drive to Paestum. People in Italy have been talking about building a bridge from Messina to Villa San Giovanni for a long time, but it's still a short ferry ride today (only 25 minutes). We drove through a mountainous area, part of which was a National Park. At times it seemed like we went through a tunnel every couple of minutes. Our leader mentioned that we would drive through approximately 100 tunnels today. If we weren't going through a tunnel we were driving on a bridge. The photos Ed took showed lots of green hills with blurred vegetation at the front of the photo. Every now and then there was a small town. We stop for a break at a truck stop and I liked how the bus and trucks lined up. As we got closer to Paestum, there were plains with fields of crops, some times solar farms and of course...