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on the boat

68 swordfish spices

and selfies

we see our first locally caught

swordfish

in the flesh as it were

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we visit an amazing spice market

and of course there was the selfies

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so

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sarah cues or sarah seracusa is located

on the southeast corner of sicily

an island off the coast of italy there's

a large bay or lagoon

and in the north east corner a small

island

covered in historic monuments

there we are cerakus norwegian spirit

out there

we are

out there by that cat

norwegian dawn there

just tied up the uh just hold up the

dinghies

time for a coffee and a croissant

uh

okay

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coffee and a croissant on the front

little bar here and now we're off to

look at some

architecture and some history

here

in 1693 an earthquake struck parts of

southern italy near sicily

calabrea and malta on january the 11th

around 2100 local time the earthquake

was preceded by a damaging foreshock

on the 9th of january the main quake had

an estimated magnitude

of 7.4 the most powerful in italian

recorded history

and causing the death of 60 000 people

sarah cues was flattened

and so everything you see here was built

after that date

i guess the eu grant must have run out

it's never been finished

the tempur of apollo is dated to the

beginning of the 6th century bc

and was therefore the most ancient doric

temple in sicily

more or less it was once a byzantine

church

from which period the front steps and

traces of the central door

are still preserved it was then an

islamic mosque during the emirate of

sicily

beyond the temple there's a huge market

selling fresh fruit

vegetables fish and meat from the local

area

at one end of the market there are a

series of spice stalls

selling spices from well just about

everywhere

from cinnamon to nutmeg peppers to

capers

there are a couple of stalls selling

nuts mainly almonds and walnuts a good

variety

and again many of these locally grown

they were locally harvested fresh

shellfish

hey

swordfish caught in the medina straits

just a few miles away and a young lady

who wanted a selfie with them

and some pictures too

you simply wouldn't believe

mediterranean fish stocks were so low

well that's something to shout about i

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guess

cindy managed to find some huge corn on

the cob 80 cents each which isn't too

bad

they were very tasty cooked on the

barbecue

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this market happens every day every day

the week apart from sunday that is

it's always full of good food fresh

produce

and it's always amazingly well set out

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the fountain of diana is a monumental

fountain from 1907

by giulio machetti with the

collaboration of his sculptor's son

mario located in the piazza archimedes

in saracludes

the fountain faces south and highlights

the figure of diana

with a bow and a dog the attributes of

the goddess hunting

protector of autogena in greek times

the fountain is unusual in that it's

constructed from concrete and not carved

stone

uh

the temple of athena is a doric temple

built

in sarah cruz in the 5th century bc by

the

tyrant gallio after his victory over the

carthaginians

in the battle of humera the temple was

preceded by a cult site which dated back

to the 8th century bc with an altar

discovered in a later excavation

the temple was converted to a christian

place of worship

and parts of it are still found

incorporated into the walls

on the left side of the dumono some

columns of local limestone

and the local style bone on which they

stood

but still remain visible

oh

oh

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okay

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so

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sunset in another 20 minutes

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so

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la la

what we do

bubbling up innit

top selfie spot apparently so at this

point i wasn't actually filming i'd left

the camera running

so that i could capture anything that

popped up

the dogs are having a drink that's quite

warm the young lady on the left decides

she wants us and the dogs out the way

for a selfie

cheeky man hey ho

so we did oblige sought off

i was thinking something said

without the picture trouble is with me

i can't stand nepotism or people who are

full of self-importance

i ended up taking the mick quite a bit

do it again do it again with the with

the um

hot things in the background hang on

what are we doing you've got to do

a selfie and you've got to do pelting

and ask people not to get in the way

go all starry-eyed

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hips hips hips yeah that's it

looks lovely

no choose we're going to the church and

we

and it's not even sunday yeah it's it's

a

there is a plaza with a lot of places

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yeah that's it i think you got it

the city gateway built by dionysus the

great which remains visible

is the base of the two quadrangular

towers over eight meters on each side

which probably allowed access to the

road that fought and connected the

temple of apollo

and that of athena the gate was

discovered in 1977

and it assumes a certain importance due

to the fact

that the islet is the only remnant of

the ancient dionysian foundations

i managed to find these artists

impressions of what the gateway looked

like

online as you can see the porter or

gateway

leads up to the tempo of apollo

just 10 minutes away from the city

center there's an

ancient greek amphitheatre which is

remarkably well preserved

apparently it's one of the best in the

area we weren't able to visit it

due to the constraints of time and of

course covered 19.

there's also the ancient caves the ear

of dionysus is one of these

if you get the chance to visit saracus

or saracusa

we'd highly recommend it don't forget to

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