January 2009
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Fishy Mafia
Sicily is one of my favorite places on planet Earth, and it’s certainly one of the most beautiful. I think the Sicilians are some of the friendliest, most gracious people anywhere.
I had taken an overnight ferry from Napoli to Palermo, a decayed city that once was the grandest in Europe. Before the Norman knights founded a kingdom there in 1072, it had been a jewel of the Islamic world. I...