last time on delightful travelers we said goodbye to our beloved city
of halifax and of course our beautiful tiny house in this video we take our first steps
into full-time travel and what a better place to begin than in palermo of sicily
i'm anna and this is trevor in this series we'll be tackling the south of italy
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to our channel members and patrons for making these videos possible now let's go explore sicily
well welcome to the start of a brand new series everyone and let us welcome you
to sicily we couldn't have picked a better place to start off this is the capital of sicily
palermo so we have actually been to italy a couple of times before it's honestly one of our favorite
countries but this is our first time ever to the south we thought it would be perfect way
to start a full-time travel here in sicily for the very first time so if you are into history
obviously italy is one of the best places to come it doesn't take long when you're here to come
across amazing structures like this what we're looking at right now is the polytheiama jerobaldi
i might be saying that wrong we just got here so give us a break our italian will get better
as we go i'm pretty sure the palermo sympathy plays here but this building is just magnificent
well this is pretty cool huh yeah one of the things that surprised me about palermo right away
was how pedestrian friendly it is it's actually a couple of really long streets main streets that
are pedestrian only how cool is that these kind of streets are right up a rally for those of you that
follow us throughout the world you know we love pedestrian-only streets we also love beaches and
believe it or not yes we are in a big city but there is apparently a beach here so maybe we'll
visit that later in the video i can't even begin to tell you guys how good it feels to be back
in europe it's been since before the pandemic since we were here i think it's been four or
five years since we've actually been in italy and oh my goodness it just feels amazing there's so
many people out it kind of feels back to normal again i so knew we made the right decision when
we decided to start our full-time travel right here in sicily off the main street where all
those people are is this gorgeous typical little italian alley does it get any better than this
off this cute little alleyway we have this gorgeous church right at the end with a bell
tower you have all these balconies with people's laundry hanging out and cute little cafes oh italy
how i love you so of course we have a few facts for you guys palermo is 2700 years old and it
dates back get this to 734 bc so in the entire metropolitan area there's about 1.2 million
people it's a fifth most populated city i guess in all of italy and in the city core itself is about
680 000 people so something that makes sicily extra interesting is that it's been conquered
many many times over the course of its history and it's really influenced the architecture the
culture and of course the food here speaking of food i'm really hungry so we decided to
come over to a place called kapale and you can see it is a very popular spot here in palermo it
smells delicious in here and we decided to go for some arancini now we're from canada we call this
arancini i think the italians call this arancina doesn't matter to us because we are here in italy
to eat let's face it that's why we're all here well enough talking let's actually try it i can't
actually get over how heavy this is it must be super super dense you guys would not believe this
wow that is so good to be honest i actually ordered this a lot in canada when i find
it on an italian menu this is so much different so much bigger so much denser
so incredibly delicious super crunchy on the outside than the rice
a little bit flavored and very very creamy and i'm just started to get into the bite
there but you can see where the i guess verdur it's called the regu verdere which i think is
veggie but it's got a whole bunch of different veggies in it i think there was zucchini tomato
a bunch of other things the one i went for is called regu which is the most traditional
kind and i agree with anna this thing weighs a lot and oh it smells good let's just go for it
oh my look at the inside of that well this is what i call perfection and it's exactly why i
wanted to come to sicily the meat inside this thing is just full of flavor it's delicious
with the rice and there's some peas in here they kind of snuck in there i didn't know that
it's really good the outside you can see how it's deep fried golden it's crispy this is delicious
and if this is a sign of things to come here in italy which i believe it is we are in for
an absolute treat before we move on to keep exploring this beautiful city of palermo we
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us now let's go back out in the city so this is probably one of the most photographed areas in all
of palermo this is called cuatro county basically four corners each of them have a fountain on them
with uh statues right above them another thing about this place as you can see there are a lot of
people hanging around that's because it is quite the touristic spot there's also some vendors and
you're also going to see some horses around here if you want to go for a ride so not far from where
we just were is the palermo cathedral look how huge it is actually has four bell towers and it
dates back to the 1100s as you can see this place is absolutely beautiful from the outside and it
attracts quite the crowd we always love stopping outside of cathedrals while we're in europe
because we never see anything quite like this when we're in canada oh how we missed europe and how we
missed italy it does actually cost money to go in but that includes some royal tunes crips obviously
seeing the cathedral there's also a rooftop that i would imagine has some pretty good views so just a
few minutes from the cathedral is this beautiful palace now this is called the norman palace
otherwise known as the royal palace of palermo it's actually the oldest royal residence in all of
europe who knew there's a lot of royal residences in these parts of the world and it used to be the
home basically the home of the kings and rulers of sicily so as inviting as this red carpet is we're
actually not going in today one because i think it actually closes soon and we could probably do
an entirely separate video on this place it's huge it does cost 19 euro if you're interested in going
in all right that's enough history for the day and i don't think we even said it's been about
30 degrees celsius to 32 degrees celsius every single day so that means we need to cool off
we're going to go to the beach we're gonna pick you up tomorrow well in just a few moments
well we've just come over to the main beach here and there's a lot of people it is way more packed
than we possibly imagined we know it's high season but there's almost nowhere to even go yeah i know
anybody that's italian it's probably been like of course it's august it's super packed but we've
traveled literally around the beaches and world seen anything like this before so it's unfortunate
because we took the hop on hop off bus and they did say their uh private beach that they have
available sold and we said okay what are the odds of getting an umbrella and they said of course
you'll get an umbrella and here we are and there's there's nowhere to get umbrellas yeah so if you're
coming here in august be aware to come really really really early to get a chair i think it is
an absolutely beautiful beach and you guys can probably see that if i look this way there is
some chairs but most of these are like you need passes to go to them but the beach is super warm
yeah we have never seen anything quite like this it's also monday believe it or not we didn't come
purposely yesterday because it was sunday so i can't imagine how busy the beach would be but
it's still really cool to be here i just don't think we're going to get to lounge around so a
bit of a fail but there's a really cool building up here as well this building almost looks like
a palace but it's actually over the water and i think maybe it's a cafe or something
but the setting really doesn't get much better than this the water is crystal clear and we're
basically surrounded by mountains well since we can't get a chair we thought we'd tuck into this
little cafe on the beach and we got a cappuccino i think there's like a rule here in italy that
you can only have cappuccinos in the morning i think we're right after right at the cut-off
basically it could be maybe 10 after 12 so it's technically the afternoon so don't hate us for
that italians we're trying to just make up for not getting a chair and not having a good beach day
oh this is good it's really hot though i'm trying not to touch too much
cappuccinos they're definitely better when you're in italy especially in this setting i mean we
are on a beach after all and it's beautiful here while trevor has this cappuccino i'm gonna draw my
sorrows with a beer it's unfortunate the way the day turned out we were hoping you know to get some
beach chairs and enjoy a really nice beach day we actually thought people would be fishing for us to
come into the beach clubs i'm sure the italians are just shaking their heads at us but we're
not used to this we will be in italy for a while though so hopefully we can find some really great
beach days and some really good beaches that maybe aren't quite so busy but i think now we will head
back into the city welcome to the bmb amarillo it is right in the heart of palermo we couldn't
have chosen a better location and it is quite the little room it's not too big but it's not
too small either so we'll give you a quick little tour over here you're gonna see a wardrobe it does
fit one of our suitcases so it does the trick if we move over this way you're going to see a very
comfortable queen-sized bed trevor just said queen but maybe this is a king it's funny when
you sleep in a lot of different beds you start to lose like perspective of the size of them it also
comes with a fridge a desk area which is our editing suite there's a tv behind here as well
and look you guys can see that i am editing a video come back here and into the bathroom we
have a really really nice shower over here sink area lots of storage space that is key over here
and then of course the toilet and of the day can't really have an italian bathroom without
the bidet so the question is how much is this place given that we're right in the heart of
the city you'd probably expect it to be a little pricey yeah the location is really
honestly perfect it was less than 100 euros a night which is pretty amazing for august
here in palermo also the owners or the people that run it are the sweetest people ever they're like
when we got here they made us a list of all these places we should eat at without even like
us asking they just wrote it out for us they had some stuff in our room ready for us to arrive late
yeah they're so nice another little bonus is it's a b b so you get breakfast every single morning
well it is aperitivo time here in italy which means for us aperol spritz time let's go out
we've just come over to this beautiful courtyard and this is the time of day where everyone's
just relaxing at various cafes the buildings surrounding us are absolutely beautiful and we
went for an aperol spritz now this is a very famous italian drink because i'm sure all you
italians know if you guys don't know what's in this there's afro there's some sparkling water
prosecco and then a lemon so let's just quickly try it i've had these many times but
always better when you're in the country that came up with these so so good so for those of
you that didn't recently join us you might recall me saying a few months ago that i just recently
discovered apparel spritz for some reason i confused it in my head with a negroni which i
don't like but i love an aperol spritz i thought it was gonna be like super bitter but i think
apherol itself might be bitter but then once you add the prosecco to it it sweetens it up it's
not too sweet either it's really a perfectly balanced drink one of my favorites i know we
uh well our day at the beach didn't go so well but this drink is making up for it and the city
is is pretty awesome it is i i'm really really enjoying the city had interesting expectations
wasn't sure what to expect before we came a lot of stuff i read about the city was that it can be a
little bit gritty and quite dirty but however we've been to a lot of places and i feel like
dirty and gritty is kind of some of my favorite cities but a weird thing to say it just has a
lot of character so first impressions here of palermo and sicily and we are loving this place we
had some high high high expectations as one does coming into italy and it's living up to the hype
and here's the exciting part i believe or at least i think we mentioned we bought a one-way ticket
to start full-time traveling traveling around the world and we're starting here right here in italy
and what we're looking for for all you guys especially italians or anyone who's been here
before we're looking for some recommendations if you have any recommendations on what we should do
where we should go in sicily let us know also we're going to be going to the puglia region as
well so we're hanging around the kind of south of italy if you have any recommendations for puglia
also let us know we're completely wide open in fact right now we're planning what we're going
to do in the next few days like we have no idea so what is coming up next well you guys got a
little bit of a teaser of street food today here in palermo it's a major major thing so chances are
we're gonna devote an entire video to that next week maybe we'll even eat some more aaron gina so
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