IN SEARCH OF SLEEPING BEAUTY
In Palermo, much of life pivots around that happy cornerstone of civilisation: the scheduled nap. Thanks to riposo (rest time), most Palermitani shut their shops and businesses soon after lunch.
‘But what do you do during this riposo?’ I heard one tourist lament. ‘You eat and you have sex,’ a local’s dead-pan reply.
Pity the poor tourists, then, who – like me – forgo such scheduled snoozes and instead find themselves braving the parched, sun-sizzled pavements in search of travel memories. My own quest was
