Palermo – Part 1 | Gaby and Wes

So, how does one get from Houston, Texas to Palermo, Sicily? With five flights of course!

Since we were getting married in Houston, we would be leaving from a Houston airport for our Honeymoon and we would need to find an itinerary that would allow us to return to our home in Mountain View, CA. Also, cost is a huge consideration for booking our tickets for the Honeymoon. We were able to find extremely cheap tickets to get to Sicily (at least cheap considering the distance of travel). Our flying itinerary was as follows:

Monday, May 28th:

Houston to St. Louis
St. Louis to Newark
Newark to Lisbon, Portugal (overnight… 7 hours and 40 minutes)

Tuesday, May 29th:

Lisbon to Rome
Rome to Palermo, Sicily

By the time we finally landed in Palermo it was 11pm Italy time (or 5pm EST/2pm PST). Needless to say, our first night we hailed a cab and went straight to the hotel and crashed.

Here’s the first of three photo galleries from Palermo. Hint: It’s another large gallery, be patient as it loads.

Finished? Check out the Palazzo dei Normanni.

: The Sun coming up over the Atlantic as we fly from Newark to Lisbon

: Drinking a Coke Light. Senza Calorie!

: Drinking a Baffo D’Oro during a layover in Roma

: Benvenuti a Palermo!

: Quattro Canti: The square of Palermo which divides the four neighborhoods of old Palermo: La Kalsa, La Vucciria, Il Capo, and Albergheria.

: Sicilian horse carriage.

: Fontana Pretoria sculpted between 1554 and 1555. When the statues were unveiled to the public, there was a huge outcry due to the nude statues. The fountains were dubbed by locals “the Fountain of Shame.”