The shuttles that take one from the top of the Sapienza funicular to the starting point for hikes to the summit of Etna, if you're crazy enough to want to do that. Lots of bleak here...

Bill-on-the-Hill

This was a comparatively quiet day, most of it spent getting from point to point in preparation for the real fun stuff that would follow over the next two days. It did, however, involve a stop at a real Acme of Amphorae, a Paragon of Pottery, an Excelsior of Earthenware, an Ultra of Urns. This foray into archaeology wasn't really what we had made this trip for, but even complete whackos like us need to do some conventional tourism some of the time.